29.01.2015
- LyondellBasell has upgraded the positions of three of its senior executives, Timothy D. Roberts, Patrick D. Quarles and Kevin W. Brown. Roberts, formerly executive vice president...
23.12.2014
- Malaysian national oil and gas giant Petronas has chosen LyondellBasell's technology for its 900,000 t/y polypropylene plant scheduled for mechanical completion in July 2018...
23.12.2014
- Declining crude oil prices are taking their toll on US petrochemical companies that in the recent past have been riding the shale gas boom and expanding their production using...
01.10.2014
- James Gallogly, CEO of LyondellBasell since May 2009, will retire in early 2015, the company has announced. A committee of the supervisory board has been appointed to find a...
25.09.2014
- Petrochemicals giant LyondellBasell said it is weighing further expansion of its ethylene capacity at Channelview, Texas, potentially adding as much as 550 million lb/y (nearly 250...
19.09.2014
- After completing the front-end engineering and design contracts, Russian petrochemical giant Sibur said it is pressing ahead with previously announced plans for a $9.5 billion...
27.08.2014
- LyondellBasell has announced it will build a world-scale plant for 900 million lbs (408,0000 t/y) of propylene oxide (PO) and 2 billion lbs (about 907,000 t/y) of tertiary butyl...
09.07.2014
- The European market for polypropylene is tightening noticeably, with three companies declaring force majeure within a short space of time. LyondellBasell is the latest company to...
