
greenfield project
China Key projects and business highlights 2014 If China growth domestic product (GDP) slowed down these last years, it remains twice higher than world average and it maintains its top position as the country with the largest energy consumption. In 2014, China is passing USA to become the world largest net importer of liquid fuels. […]
Ningbo Fortune selects UOP technology for propylene As an Oriental Energy Corporation Ltd (Oriental Energy) company, Ningbo Fortune Petrochemical Corporation Ltd (Ningbo Fortune) selected the US-based UOP-Honeywell technology for a greenfield project to produce propylene at the port of Ningbo, in the Zhejiang Province, China. Previously named Zhangjiagang Oriental Energy, the company became Oriental Energy in […]
Energizing Chemistry Lanxess AG (Lanxess) is a young company founded in 2005 with 150 years of history in the chemical industry as the result of Bayer strategic spin off of plastics and synthetic rubber assets. Still home-based with Bayer in Leverkusen, Germany, will relocate headquarters next door in Cologne, in 2013. Lanxess is covering 31 […]
Enriching lives through innovation With Headquarters in The Woodlands, on the north of Houston, Texas, USA, Huntsman is a chemical company listed in the New York Stock Exchange and operating 75 production units in 30 countries with about 12,000 employees. Jon Huntsman established the Huntsman Container Corporation in 1970 in Fullerton, California. At that time […]
SAAC leads partners to award $500 million NBA EPC Saudi Acrylic Acid Co (SAAC) and its partners, Saudi Kayan Petrochemical (Saudi Kayan) and Sadara, are reaching the last stage of the bids clarifications submitted by the engineering companies for the n-butanol (NBA) project planned in Al Jubail Industrial City. This n-Butanol plant is a greenfield project where many parties are involved […]
BP to develop Khazzan and Makarem in phase 1 BP revised significantly upward its capital expenditure in Oman Full Field Development project from $15 billion to $24 billion. Discovered in the 1990s, the huge reserves of natural gas in Center Oman have been left undeveloped because of the complexity and the potential costs related to […]
Definition Conceptual Study stands in the oil and gas and petrochemical industry at the very early stage of a greenfield project to identify all the possibilities and conditions to develop this project. Comments During the conceptual study, the engineers will: – Investigate the multiple technologies to be used – Evaluate the costs of each solution, especially […]
$20 billion Sadara project takes momentum in Al Jubail With 26 major production units, The Dow Chemical (Dow) and the Saudi National Oil Company Saudi Aramco are building up the world’s largest integrated petrochemical complex in Al Jubail Industrial City, in Al Sharqiya, 100 kilometers northwest Dammam in Saudi Arabia. Dow and Saudi Aramco expect their $20 […]