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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 […]
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 […]
ORPIC Liwa Platics Project to reach FEED stage The Oman Refinery and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) confirmed to have called for tender the front end engineering and design (FEED) work for its $3.6 billion petrochemical complex to produce plastics in Al-Liwa, close to Sohar in the north of Oman. To be integrated to the Sohar […]
China Key Projects and Business Highlights While the Chinese national oil companies (NOCs) China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina), Sinopec, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) explore the world to find new oil and gas resources, the foreign companies such as Air Liquide, Basf, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Huntsman, Lanxess, Shell, Total, invest in China in all kinds of […]
Chemistry that matters Based in Ryadh, Saudi Arabia, SABIC stands for the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, one of the largest petrochemical companies in the world with 40,000 employees running operations in 40 countries. SABIC was established in 1976 by Royal Decree to develop the downstream industries in Saudi Arabia while Saudi Aramco was focusing on the […]
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 […]
Huntsman and Sinopec Jinling to invest $750 million The Texas-based chemical company Huntsman Corporation (Huntsman) and the Sinopec Jinling Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Jinling) have decided to form a joint venture to build and operate a greenfield world-scale Propylene Oxide (PO) and Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) plant in Nanjing, in the Jiangsu Province, China. Huntsman […]
Wentworth leads consortium with Cove Energy and Maurel & Prom The Dubai-based Wentworth Resources (Wentworth) is an independent oil and gas company with natural gas production and a committed exploration program in the Rovuma Basin of southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique. Wentworth and its concession partners Cove Energy (Cove) and Maurel & Prom own a gas […]
