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OQ Chemicals
10.04.2025 • News
Strategic Value Partners and Blantyre Capital Acquire OQ Chemicals
Strategic Value Partners (SVP) and Blantyre Capital Limited (Blantyre) recently announced the acquisition of OQ Chemicals (Oxea), a leading global producer and merchant of oxo chemicals.
16.04.2024 • News
OQ Chemicals Completes US Propionaldehyde Expansion
As part of its strategy to expand the company's application portfolio, Germany-based OQ Chemicals has mechanically completed the expansion of its US plant in Bay City, Texas, for the production of high-purity propionaldehyde.
26.05.2023 • News
OQ Chemicals to Cut 10% of the Workforce
Toward achieving cost savings in the double-digit million euro range, Germany’s OQ Chemicals, part of the Oman-based OQ energy group, has announced a cost-cutting scheme that will see it cut 10% of the workforce.
08.05.2023 • News
OQ Chemicals Starts up Esters Pilot Plant
OQ Chemicals has successfully started up its new pilot plant for esters at Oberhausen, Germany. The company said the facility enables it to manufacture small quantities of esters tailored to customer needs for test purposes before making an industrial-scale investment.
25.01.2023 • News
OQ Chemicals Expanding Capacity for Carboxylic Acids
As part of a capacity increase for carboxylic acids, Oberhausen, Germany-based OQ Chemicals, part of Oman’s state-owned energy company OQ, is investing an undisclosed sum in an optimization and debottlenecking project for precursors at its German plants.
04.01.2023 • News
SABIC, OQ and Kuwait Petroleum Partner on Duqm Project
SABIC, OQ and Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) have agreed to jointly develop a petrochemical complex in Duqm, Oman, reviving a project that stalled in late 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
28.10.2022 • News
Röhm and OQ break ground on Texas MMA Plant
Together with compatriot project partner OQ Chemicals, Germany’s Röhm has broken ground on a new world-scale methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant it is building at OQ Chemicals’ Bay City, Texas site.
03.08.2022 • News
OQ Chemicals Switching to Green Power
In its drive to become a climate-neutral company, Germany-based oxo-chemicals specialist OQ Chemical has announced it will switch all of its worldwide production sites to run on electricity from renewable sources in the medium term.
27.07.2022 • News
OQ Chemicals Greenlights MMA Project with Röhm
Germany-based OQ Chemicals, the former Oxea, has made a final investment decision to add capacity for propionic aldehyde and production infrastructure to support a new 250,000 t/y methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant being built by German acrylics specialist Röhm at OQ’s US site in Bay City, Texas.
23.09.2020 • News
OQ Chemicals Licenses Technologies to Duqm
OQ Chemicals – formerly Oxea – has agreed to license its proprietary technology for the production of ethylene and propylene derivatives to Oman’s Duqm Refinery and Petrochemicals Industries Company (DRPIC).
