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BASF selected US Texas Freeport for greenfield MTO The German chemical giant BASF SE (BASF) has selected its Freeport existing site on the Texas US Gulf Coast to build a greenfield Methane-To-Olefins (MTO) complex based on the critical methane-to-propylene (MTP) conversion. While the Bundestag, the German Parliament, continues to debate about the opportunity to allow or […]
Cyber Physical Systems and Industry Digitalization Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) refers to all the technologies enabling computerized resources and physical objects to interact together in a coordinated, reliable and continuous manner for performing multiple given tasks. These CPS may combine hardware and software from physic, biology, engineering and information technologies. The first examples of CPS appeared in […]
Future of Manufacturing to boost developed countries In order to present the “Future of Manufacturing” big picture we remind here the genesis of this concept and the basics about digital technologies. Then we shall introduce the main goals of this innovative approach. Over the last thirty years all the developed countries, except Germany, have seen […]
Wintershall inks deal with Gas y Petroleo del Neuquen The Basf oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall and the Argentina local company Gas y Petroleo del Neuquen (GyP) finalized their joint venture agreement by which the German company will take the operator role to develop shale gas in the Block Aquada Federal as part of the Vaca […]
China Coal to build world largest CTO complex Sinopec Engineering Group (SEG or Sinopec Engineering) has been awarded by Zhong Tian He Chuang Energy Corporation Limited (Zhong Tian He Chuang) the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to design and build the world largest Coal-To-Olefins (CTO) plant at Uxin Banner near Ordos, Inner Mongolia. Established […]
Premier Oil to award Catcher FPSO EPC contract The London-based company Premier Oil (Premier) and its partners, Cairn Energy (Cairn) from Scotland and the Basf subsidiary Wintershall from Germany, are on the point to make the final decision to award the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a floating, storage, production and offloading (FPSO) […]
ECH to build world largest naphtha cracker at Sokhna Egypt Carbon Holdings, a privately-owned company, is working with several national export credit agencies to expand the financing of its Tahrir Petrochemical project including the world largest naphtha cracker to be installed at Ain Sokhna at the entry of the Suez Channel in Egypt. Originally estimated […]
