01.09.2016
- Chinese refiners and petrochemical producers plan to set up a system for benchmarking their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as the first step toward setting up an emissions market...
29.08.2016
- Edinburgh, Scotland-based Celtic Renewables, a company specialized in producing bio-butanol from Scotch whisky byproducts, has filed an application with the local Falkirk Council...
10.08.2016
- Oil major BP is seeking buyers for its 50% share in Chinese petrochemicals joint venture SECCO, according to several news reports. Sources said a deal could fetch $2-3 billion. The...
04.08.2016
- Munich, Germany based industrial gases and engineering group Linde has reportedly won a contract to perform front-end engineering design (Feed) for an olefin, butadiene...
04.08.2016
- Two workers at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport have told a Russian court they bear responsibility for the death of former Total chairman and CEO Christophe de Margerie in an October 2014...
04.08.2016
- Mexican chemical company Alpek is in exclusive talks with Brazil’s Petrobras to buy the Brazilian group’s stakes in Companhia Petroquímica de Pernambuco (Petroquímica Suape) and...
27.07.2016
- Saudi Arabian chemical giant SABIC and an affiliate of ExxonMobil are weighing the potential development of a joint petrochemical complex on the US Gulf Coast. If it goes ahead...
25.07.2016
- Polish petrochemicals group PKN Orlen is to build a metathesis unit at its site in Plock. The unit will add capacity of 100,000 t/y polymer-grade propylene taking total output to...
