26.11.2013
- Two employees of an independent contractor were killed in an explosion at French petrochemical producer Total's refinery at Antwerp, Belgium, on Nov. 19. The blast, which forced...
06.11.2013
- Ineos is said to be in the process of restarting its gas-fed cracker at Grangemouth, Scotland. All facilities at the site were put on "cold standby" on October 15 at the height of...
05.11.2013
- Plans for a merger between Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) and Sahara Petrochemical are at an advanced stage, the two Saudi Arabian chemical producers said...
23.10.2013
- Ineos has announced that at least the chemical production units at its Grangemouth complex will not reopen after being shuttered on 15 October in the midst of a labor dispute with...
28.06.2013
- Sinopec has proposed a $3.1 billion ethylene plant in east China that would be the top Asian refiner's first to use natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as a petrochemical...
05.06.2013
- China's top economic planner has approved South Korea's SK Group taking a 35% stake in a $2.7 billion petrochemical complex that state refiner Sinopec built in central China, a...
13.05.2013
- Business - Shell Chemicals held a ground-breaking ceremony last month for the building of facilities for making high-purity ethylene oxide (HPEO) and ethoxylates at its site in...
13.05.2013
- Petrochemical firms risk creating a glut of high-end products in Asia as they invest billions of dollars to move up a value chain threatened at the bottom end by cheap U.S...
