13.01.2016
- BP has agreed to sell its petrochemical complex in Decatur, Alabama, USA, to Thai PET producer Indorama Ventures, the global market leader. Indorama’s AlphaPet PET plant is co...
07.01.2016
- After nearly two years of negotiations, Brazilian energy company Petrobras has agreed a new five-year naphtha supply contract with petrochemical producer Braskem. Under the terms...
23.12.2015
- Argentina’s state-owned oil and gas group YPF and Dow Chemical’s Argentinian subsidiary PBB Solisur plan to invest $500 million to triple production at their existing shale gas...
22.12.2015
- Russian oil company Rosneft and China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec) have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on gas and petrochemical projects in East Siberia. The...
16.12.2015
- Shell Nanhai, Chinese subsidiary of the multinational oil and petrochemicals group, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) have signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) to...
09.12.2015
- Czech petrochemical producer Unipetrol has awarded contracts to Linde and Technip to reconstruct its ethylene cracker at the Zaluzi site in Litvinov. The unit was severely damaged...
08.12.2015
- Iran National Petrochemical Company (NPC) vice president, Mohammad Hassan Peyvandi, has confirmed that the company has been in talks with BASF about a “giant joint investment...
04.12.2015
- Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical has agreed to license its polypropylene (PP) and propylene oxide (PO) technologies to South Korean oil refining company, S-Oil. S-Oil operates a complex...