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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 […]
ExxonMobil and Sabic to build a world scale synthetic rubber greenfield plant in Middle-East Al-Jubail Petrochemical Company (Kemya) is a 50/50 joint venture between Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and Exxon Chemical Arabia Inc., an affiliate of ExxonMobil Chemical Company. The two companies have collaborated closely since the joint venture was established in 1980, producing […]
Jacobs collects awards in Saudi Arabia giant projects In May, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs) had been awarded the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for the $6 billion Ma’aden Phosphate city project. Then in June, Jacobs announced to have won the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for three polyethylene trains for the […]
Definition Polyethylene (PE) is a thermoplastic polymer consisting of long hydrocarbon chains. A molecule of polyethylene is nothing more than a long chain of carbon atoms, with two hydrogen atoms attached to each carbon atom. Polyethylene is produced from the polymerization of ethylene as monomer. Polyethylene may have different grade of density with different melting point temperatures […]
Camisea gas for the $3.5 billion Peru Southern Project Brazilian and Peruvian Governments have approved the Camisea Southern gas pipeline project, the Integrated Petrochemical Complex planned by Braskem and PetroPeru will get the necessary ethane feedstock. Odebrecht will lead the Brazilian consortium to build the $5 billion capital expenditure Peru’s Southern Andean Gas Pipeline from the Camisea gas fields to Quillabamba to supply a […]
ENI goes global in Petrochemical In the same time as ConocoPhillips revives the Phillips 66 brand to reposition its Downstream activities, ENI has decided to rename Polimeri Europa into Versalis. The new name represents a tangible sign of ENI‘s 2011 decision to relaunch its petrochemical business. Born in 1994 from the joint venture between Enichem and […]
Definition:“PET” is the acronym of Poly-Ethylene Terephthalate, oftently written Polyethylene Terephthalate. It is a thermoplastic polymer resin from the Polyester family. Comments: The term polyethylene terephthalate is a source of confusion because this substance, PET, does not contain polyethylene PET is a high performance, recyclable, polymer, ranking third in terms of volume of global consumption and widely used in textile and […]
Definition: “Ethylene” is one of the most important Olefin products. It is a colourless, flammable gas with a slightly sweet odor. As shwon in the diagram below, it comes directly from the cracking in a steam cracker of different feedstocks: Gas such as ethane, propane, butane Liquid naphtha coming from oil refineries. Comments: The chart below shows the […]
