06.08.2019
- Brazilian petrochemicals giant Braskem, the country’s largest plastics and petrochemicals producer and the largest producer of PP in North America, has officially abandoned plans...
08.02.2018
- ExxonMobil’s new 1.5 million t/y ethane cracker at Baytown, Texas, USA, is mechanically complete, and start-up is now expected during the second quarter of this year, the US...
12.04.2017
- China’s Wanhua Chemical has announced it will build a $1.12 billion isocyanates complex in the US state of Louisiana, benefiting from a $4.3 million infrastructure grant from the...
29.03.2017
- Another new mammoth petrochemicals and plastics project has been announced for the US state of Texas by non-US companies seeking to profit from access to inexpensive shale gas...
26.06.2015
- Shell has received an air-permit application for a proposed ethane-best petrochemical complex in western Pennsylvania from the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)...
16.12.2014
- Chevron Phillips Chemical has completed the expansion of ethylene capacity at its Sweeny complex in Old Ocean, Texas. The capacity addition is part of the group's US Gulf Coast...
19.11.2014
- The two words on everyone's lips in recent years in the energy industry have been "shale boom." This article will lay out JBC Energy's view of the future of the U.S. shale boom and...
11.11.2014
- In an updated property deal, Shell Chemical has exercised its option to buy Horsehead's zinc production site near Monaca, Pennsylvania, in the US, where it may build a major shale...
