Keyword: Petrochemicals

Markets & Companies

European Plastics Market Struggles with Supply Shortage

08.06.2015 - Until recently, most chemical players outside the petrochemicals segment may have taken scant notice of the vast upheaval sweeping the upstream petrochemical and plastics...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Mega Projects and Complete Packages

08.06.2015 - Sluggish growth, a number of regional conflicts and falling prices in global commodity markets had a major impact on the business climate in the chemical plant manufacturing sector...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

New Openings for Oil and Gas Chemicals

05.06.2015 - The outlook for producers of chemicals used in the exploration and production of oil and gas has not been promising after the crash in oil prices in the second half of 2014...

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Oman Oil and Oxea in Graduate Program With GUtech

12.05.2015 - Oman Oil Company (OOC) and its chemicals subsidiary, German chemical producer Oxea, have agreed to establish a graduate program with the German University of Technology (GUtech) in...

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Repsol to Build Metallocene LDPE plant at Tarragona

11.05.2015 - Spanish petrochemicals producer Repsol has licensed the Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) process to produce metallocene-based LDPE resin at its complex in Tarragona. The plant...

Markets & Companies

How 20 Years Have Transformed the Chemical Industry

06.05.2015 - For the second consecutive year, the Boston Consulting Group has conducted a total shareholder return (TSR) analysis of the chemical industry. The top 10 chemical companies have...

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Shintech Going Ahead With $1.4 billion US Gas Cracker

30.04.2015 - Amid discussions of the viability of shale gas-fed petrochemical plants as crude oil prices continue to taper off, at least one US cracker project is definitely going ahead...

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Honeywell Opens Chinese Dehydrogenation Catalyst Plant

30.04.2015 - Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies division has opened a new plant at Zhangjiagang City in China's Jiangsu Province to produce state-of the-art catalysts used in...