
Linear Low Density Polyethylene
KNPC NRP and PIC Al-Zour projects to be integrated The national oil company (NOC) Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (KNPC) and its sister state-owned company Petrochemical Industries Corporation (PIC) are working on the integration of their respective giant projects, the New Refinery Project (NRP) on one side and the Al-Zour Olefins and Aromatics Plants projects on […]
Maire Tecnimont achieves FEED work on Al-Sejeel After awarding Al-Sejeel front end engineering and design (FEED) work to Maire Tecnimont, the national companies Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) are aligning the engineering companies willing to bid for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Al-Sejeel petrochemical project in Ras Laffan […]
KPC to take share in OMPL and OPAL petrochemicals The national oil companies (NOCs) Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and the Indian Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) are about to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) by which the Kuwaiti company should take share in two major petrochemical projects at Mangalore and at Daheij in […]
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 […]
PIC Olefins-3 integrated in KNPC New Refinery Project The wholly state-owned Petrochemicals Industries Company (PIC) is considering to relocate its Olefins-3 project along the New refinery Project (NRP) planned by Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) in Al-Zour, Kuwait. PIC and KNPC may be defined as sisters companies as both belongs to the national Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC). […]
JGC and Fluor to build Baytown USGC Ethane cracker Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (ChevronPhillips) made the final investment decision (FID) to build its Cedar Bayou US Gulf Coast Petrochemical (USGC) project in Baytown, Texas, USA. In following this decision ChevronPhillips selected the 50/50 joint venture of JGC Corporation from Japan and Fluor Enterprises Inc. from […]
KPI selects Sinopec Engineering for PDH and PP units The national company Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industry Inc Ltd (KPI) selected Sinopec Engineering Group (SEG) for the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning (EPCC) of the propane de-hydrogenation (PDH) and the polypropylene plants. This project is part of the petrochemical development program of the Republic of Kazakhstan to […]
Qatar Petroleum holds 10% of $3 billion Arzew project Since Total and Sonatrach had announced the giant Arzew petrochemical complex, the project had to be put on hold by the lack of ethane as feedstock to supply the cracker. This ethane should come from the Hassi R’meil natural gas fields, but transportation along the 500km to […]