
synthetic rubber
Sabic and Shell start Sadaf Polyurethane FEED work The international oil company (IOC) Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and the global petrochemical group Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) have agreed to expand their joint venture Saudi Petrochemical Company (Sadaf) with the addition of world-scale polyolefins production units on their existing site in the Al-Jubail Industrial Zone […]
Petronas calls for tender RAPID Package 8 EPCC The Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas has sent the invitation to bid (ITB) to the pre-qualified engineering companies for the Package 8 of the Refinery And Petrochemicals Integrated Development (RAPID) project despite the one year delay announced earlier. With an estimated $20 billion capital expenditure, the […]
We Refine Right The Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company, so called TAKREER, is the operational entity of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in charge of the refining business. Until 1999, the downstream activities were left as a branch within ADNOC, but with the development of this sector in Abu Dhabi and major projects […]
Energizing Chemistry Lanxess AG (Lanxess) is a young company founded in 2005 with 150 years of history in the chemical industry as the result of Bayer strategic spin off of plastics and synthetic rubber assets. Still home-based with Bayer in Leverkusen, Germany, will relocate headquarters next door in Cologne, in 2013. Lanxess is covering 31 […]
Foster Wheeler awarded EPC management contract On September 2012, the chemical company Lanxess AG (Lanxess) decided to build the world largest ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) plant at Changzhou, in the Jiangsu Province, China. Actually based in Leverkusen, Germany, Lanxess was established in 2005 as a separate company with a new brand from the spin off of […]
Largest petrochemical company in Russia and CIS The Siberia Urals Petrochemical Company (SIBUR) was established by Decree as a joint-stock company in 1992. SIBUR was formed from multiple entities processing oil, gas and petrochemicals across Russia. In 2001, SIBUR was taken over by Gazprom to resolve debts reorganize the company. In 2008, Gazprom considered the petrochemical […]
Sinopec to take shares in Russia Sibur’s facility On October 2012, China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) and the Russian company Sibur signed Heads of Agreement to sell to the Chinese company shares of the Krasnoyarsk Synthetic Rubbers Plant JSC (KSRP). Sinopec is the second largest Chinese national oil company after PetroChina (CNPC) and among the Top 10 largest […]
Initiate, Create and, Deliver Established in 1947 with its headquarter in Tokyo, Japan, Mitsui & Co. Ltd (Mitsui) is a diversified industrial company with a global presence in 67 countries and listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange. With more than 44,000 employees, Mitsui manage a large portfolio of products and services covering: – Iron and Steel […]