Isobutylene

Petronas RAPID to go ahead as part of Malaysia PIPC In making the final investment decision (FID) on the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex (PIPC), the Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas is triggering the execution phase of the Refinery And Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project in the south Johor next to Singapore. With RAPID as […]

Petronas calls for tender RAPID Package 8 EPCC The Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas has sent the invitation to bid (ITB) to the pre-qualified engineering companies for the Package 8 of the Refinery And Petrochemicals Integrated Development (RAPID) project despite the one year delay announced earlier. With an estimated $20 billion capital expenditure, the […]

Definition Halobutyl is a variety of synthetic rubber or elastomer and refers to halogenated butyl. The halobutyl rubber is the copolymer of isobutylene (98%) and a small amount of isoprene (2%). The abbreviation IIR is commonly used to describe butyl or halobutyl rubber as it stands for Isobutylene Isoprene rubber. The halobuty rubber is odorless and tasteless, though it may […]

Definition Condensate is referring to the natural gas liquids (NGLs) contained in the raw gas. Comments The raw gas or gas is made of natural gas (methane) and condensate. When the gas is produced from the reservoir it contains roughly 80%-95% methane and 20%-5% condensate. These condensate or natural gas liquids (NGLs) are mainly ethane, ethylene, […]

The TPC Group is a leader in C4 and C3 hydrocarbons operating world scale dehydrogenation facilities .  Processing 30-40% of the CC4 in North America, TPC has multiple units to extract and produce Butadiene at Houston and Port Neches operating facilities. The company declared to “move forward” with studies to restart two idled production units of on-purpose Butadiene and […]