Low Density Polyethylene
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 […]
Oman selects Sohar for a $3.6 billion Plastics Project The Oman Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) took the opportunity of the Polyolefins Plastics Arabia Conference organized in Muscat in May 2013 to unveil the details of a greenfield world-scale petrochemical complex to be located in Sohar. As most of the Gulf countries, the Sultanate […]
Ineos-UOP to provide MTO technology license The Chinese Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Company Ltd (JSPCL) selected the Ineos and Honeywell’s UOP technology for its world-scale methanol-to olefin (MTO) project planned at Lianyungang, in the north of the eastern province of Jiangsu in China. JSPCL belongs to the large Jiangsu Shenghong Group, listed among the top 500 Chinese […]
Technip completes FEED on Freeport ethylene cracker To optimize the competitive advantage of the US glut of shale gas, the Dow Chemical Company (Dow) is planning to increase locally the number and variety of production units downward its chemical value chain. Presented as early as April 2011, the US Gulf Coast Investment Plan elaborated by […]
Producing oil and gas for the world Established in 1992 from the Azerineft State Concern and Azerneftkimya Production Association, the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) received the mandate as national oil company to : – Improve the management structure of the oil and gas industry – Develop the energy industry In this […]
Dow and Saudi Aramco $20 billion Sadara takes shape Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara) is a joint venture between The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). Once complete, Sadara petrochemical complex will be one of the world’s largest integrated chemical complex and the largest ever built in a single phase. The facility […]
PetroRabigh II and Sadara to double Saudi Aramco petrochemical production The PetroRabigh expansion, or PetroRabigh II, is a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and the Japanese Sumitomo Chemical while the greenfield project Sadara actually under construction is a joint venture with Dow Chemicals. But the both projects are designed to almost double Aramco’s chemicals manufacturing […]
Reliance to gear up on $11 billion Jamnagar refinery expansion Reliance Industry Ltd (Reliance or RIL) is making major steps in the expansion of its refinery located in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. With $11 billion capital expenditure, Reliance is planning one of the brownfield largest expansion of energy and petrochemical projects gobally. Commissioned on July 1999 with an installed refining capacity of 668,000 b/d, 1.9 million t/y Polypropylene and 1.5 million t/y Paraxylene unit, Jamnagar is the […]
