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Total Petrochemicals mulls over Port Arthur new cracker The French major company Total is looking West side of Atlantic for the expansion of its petrochemical activities with a greenfield ethylene cracker to be added on its existing Texas Port Arthur complex in USA. As most of the international oil companies (IOCs) Total is looking to take […]
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 […]
Quantum selected Ibeno for world-scale methanol plant The Nigerian Quantum Petrochemical Company Limited (Quantum) has decided to invest $1.5 billion capital expenditure in a world-scale petrochemical and methanol complex at Ibeno in the Akwa Ibom State of the southern Nigeria on the Gulf of Guinea. Quantum was recently founded by the Nigeria banker Jim Ovia, ranked […]
Ningbo Fortune selects UOP technology for propylene As an Oriental Energy Corporation Ltd (Oriental Energy) company, Ningbo Fortune Petrochemical Corporation Ltd (Ningbo Fortune) selected the US-based UOP-Honeywell technology for a greenfield project to produce propylene at the port of Ningbo, in the Zhejiang Province, China. Previously named Zhangjiagang Oriental Energy, the company became Oriental Energy in […]
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 […]
Gazprom creates All-Russia Gas Chemistry Center In 2011, Salavatnefteorgsintez changed name to become JSC Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat (GNS) in order to support the creation of the All-Russia Gas Chemistry Center for the expansion project on the existing Volga petrochemical complex in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. This Gazprom–led project is part of the Russian Government […]
Total to provide CPI with Coal-To-Olefins technology The French major company Total and the local utility China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) have received the approval from the China National Development and Reform Commission to develop Inner Mongolia $4 billion coal-to-olefins (CTO) petrochemical complex in China. Established in 2002, CPI is ranked as the fifth largest power […]
IPIC qualified bidders for Fujairah Refinery Phase-1 The Abu Dhabi-based International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) is preparing the call for tender for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of the Fujairah Refinery Phase-1 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Established in 1984 by Abu Dhabi Government , IPIC has the mission to support energy projects outside […]
