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06.06.2023 • News

LyondellBasell, Technip and CPChem Sign e-Cracking MOU

LyondellBasell, Technip Energies and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to design, build and operate a demonstration unit using Technip’s electric steam cracking furnace technology.

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01.06.2023 • News

LyondellBasell to Delay Refining Exit to 2025

LyondellBasell plans to keep its oil refining business in operation longer than planned. Rather than pull the plug at the end of 2023 as announced earlier, the olefins and polyolefins giant said this week it would delay its exit until the end of the 2025 first quarter.

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22.03.2023 • News

LyondellBasell Signs Long-term Solar Purchase Deals

Chemical producer LyondellBasell has signed five 15-year solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Spanish renewable energy producer Grenergy. The purchases cover the supply of energy from the La Cereal solar farm project in Spain, which is expected to be operational at the end of 2025.

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14.02.2023 • News

Braskem and Coolbrook in Cracker Electrification Pact

Following discussions that started last November, Brazilian polyolefins producer Braskem and Finnish technology and engineering company Coolbrook have now signed an agreement to collaborate on cracker electrification.

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08.12.2022 • News

Borealis Invests in Solar Power for Austria

Olefins and polyolefins producer Borealis has joined forces with Austrian energy utility company Verbund to supply solar energy to its production site at Schwechat, Austria.

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03.11.2022 • News

Technip Wins new Contract for Ineos Cracker

Ineos has tapped Technip Energies to supply proprietary equipment for the 1.45 million t/y ethane cracker the UK group’s Olefins arm is building at Lillo in the Port of Antwerp.

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19.10.2022 • News

Ineos to Refocus Lillo Plant on Circular Plastics

Ineos O&P Europe, the olefins and polyolefins arm of the Ineos group that steers its European business, will invest €30 million to convert existing capacity at its polyethylene plant at in Lillo in the Port of Antwerp to either monomodal or bimodal grades of high-density polyethylene (HDPE).

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29.07.2022 • News

Ineos Snags Three Major Chinese Deals

It has gone somewhat quiet around new European joint ventures in China of late, but Ineos has just announced three back-to-back projects with Chinese state-owned Sinopec that it said are worth altogether $7 billion and will lead to sales of around $10 billion from 7 million tonnes of production.

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