06.10.2015
- Germany-based Oxea has begun detailed engineering on its new propanol plant at Bay City, Texas, in the US, which is scheduled to go on stream at the end of 2017. The company said...
05.10.2015
- LyondellBasell has completed the acquisition of SJS Plastiblends, a polypropylene compounder based at Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. The Rotterdam-headquartered petrochemicals and...
29.09.2015
- Thanks to its location on the US Gulf Coast with its booming shale gas industry and generous investment incentives to investors, the state of Louisiana is rapidly becoming a mecca...
18.09.2015
- BP has agreed to license its latest-generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology to Ningxia Baaota Chemical Fibre, a majority owned subsidiary of China’s Baota...
17.09.2015
- By demolishing no longer needed buildings in a controlled explosion process, Ineos has cleared space for a new £20 million headquarters building at its Grangemouth petrochemical...
17.09.2015
- Citing increased demand in Asia, Shell has started up a new 140,000 t/y high-purity ethylene oxide (HPEO) purification plant and a new 140,000 t/y ethoxylates unit at its site on...
09.09.2015
- Taiwan’s Formosa Petrochemical is studying plans for a two-phase $9.4-billion petrochemical complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana, on the US Gulf Coast, which would include at...
07.09.2015
- Petroineos Manufacturing Scotland, the 49.9:50.1 joint venture of Ineos and PetroChina that operates the refinery at Grangemouth, made a £16.3 million pretax loss in 2014 on sales...
