18.05.2011
- Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC), the world's largest chemicals producer by market value, said on Tuesday that it is planning a $1 billion-plus facility in China with China...
06.12.2010
- Dow Chemical said on Thursday it plans to increase its ethane cracking capabilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast over the next two to three years, improving its capabilities by 20% to 30...
23.11.2010
- PetroChina will complete the expansion of its unit Daqing by June 2012, doubling the plant's ethylene capacity to 1.2 million tonnes per year, about a year later than an earlier...
08.11.2010
- South Korean petrochemical makers are racing to upgrade their naphtha cracking facilities to cash in on resurgent demand for plastics in Asia, led by China, after its worst slump...
11.08.2010
- Oil major Exxon Mobil is still working with Qatar Petroleum (QP) on a planned $6 billion petrochemicals complex, a spokesman for the U.S. firm said on Tuesday, refuting a media...
10.08.2010
- Exxon Mobil has formally ended a deal with state-funded Qatar Petroleum (QP) to develop a new $6 billion petrochemicals facility in Ras Laffan, according to Middle East Economic...
31.05.2010
- Mitsubishi Chemical and Asahi Kasei have agreed to set up a joint venture to operate their ethylene facilities at the same site from April 2011, the two chemical firms said on...
12.05.2010
- Royal Dutch Shell's new Singapore ethylene cracker is operating at around 70% of capacity and is using some 30,000 tons a month or more of naphtha as feedstock, traders said on...
