Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)
YPFB completed Tarija Ethylene – Polyethylene FEED The wholly state-owned oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) is making good progress on its largest petrochemical complex after completing the front end engineering and design (FEED) work for the ethylene and polyethylene units to be built in the Gran Chaco Province within the southern Bolivia Department of […]
Badlands NGL and Vinmar to monetize US shale gas The Delaware-registered company Badlands NGL’s LLC (Badlands NGL) and Vinmar Projects (Vinmar) from Houston, Texas, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to design, build, operate a world-scale polyethylene greenfield plant and merchant its production out of North Dakota shale gas basins of the Bakken Formation in […]
BASF FINA Petrochemicals LP and Sabina Petrochemicals to merge into one joint venture The global chemical leader BASF SE, from Germany, and the international oil company Total SA, from France, have decided to merge the assets of the two joint ventures they have in Port Arthur, Texas, USA, to create a new joint venture called […]
Qatar to invest $25 billion in petrochemicals until 2020 In February 2012, Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Qatar Petrochemicals Corporation (Qapco) had signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) to add a $5.5 billion petrochemical complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. In this project QP and Qapco will share interests according to: – Qatar Petroleum 80% – Qapco 20% In Qapco […]
$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 […]
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 […]
Fluor wins the Project Management Services Contract Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is converting a part of the fuel production for export into petrochemical added value products. In that purpose, RIL has awarded a contract to Fluor to provide project management services (PMS) for its refining and petrochemical projects to be executed in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. Commissioned […]
The Chinese Shenua coal mining company selected the LyondellBasell’s Lupotech T process for its new Coal To Olefins (CTO) project planned in Yulin, Shaanxi Province, China. With this technology Shenua intend to produce 300 000 t/y of Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) and Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA). Shenua is the biggest coal producer in China and one […]
