29.08.2017
- Along the US Gulf Coast, oil and petrochemical producers in Texas were struggling to mop up and assess possible damage to their facilities on Aug. 29 after high winds and...
28.08.2017
- Delivery of chemical products by rail from north to south through Germany is currently being hampered by the closure of the Rhine Valley Railway line, and this is creating supply...
25.07.2017
- LyondellBasell is pressing ahead with plans to build a new plant to produce propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) in the Houston Ship Channel in Texas. Billed as...
19.07.2017
- China’s Shaanxi Coal Yulin Energy and Chemical has chosen LyondellBasell’s Spherizone and Lupotech T process technologies for PP and LDPE plants being built in the Jingbian...
02.05.2017
- BASF is not interested in bidding for Akzo Nobel’s specialty chemicals division, expected to carry a price tag of about $10 billion, but will save its cash to buy agrochemicals...
09.03.2017
- Sven Schneider has been named to the managing board of German industrial gases and engineering group Linde with the function of chief financial officer. The 50-year-old German has...
26.01.2017
- Netherlands-headquartered, Texas, USA-managed petrochemicals and plastics producer LyondellBasell has completed its 50% expansion of ethylene capacity at Corpus Christi, Texas, USA...
09.01.2017
- Olefins and polyolefins giant LyondellBasell has decided against selling its 268,000 bbl/d refinery at Houston, Texas, USA. Saudi Aramco and its US refining joint venture Motiva...