Saudi Aramco expands downstream investment in ChinaSeptember 6, 2019 // 2 CommentsState-owned oil/gas firm Saudi Aramco has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China’s Zhejiang Free Trade [...]
LyondellBasell/Bora jv for petchem complex in ChinaSeptember 6, 2019 // 3 CommentsChemical firm LyondellBasell has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand in China through a joint venture with [...]
Satellite to construct US$4 bn petchem plant in East ChinaSeptember 4, 2019 // 2 CommentsChinese chemical producer Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co has obtained the go ahead to start construction work on a [...]
Plant Expansions: Formosa to invest in US PVC plant; Milliken to expand operations to Singapore with new facilitySeptember 3, 2019 // 1 CommentFormosa Plastics Corporation Louisiana, a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Formosa Plastics Corp. USA, will invest US$332 [...]
TechnipFMC to split into two independent companiesSeptember 3, 2019 // 1 CommentTechnipFMC is proceeding with its plan to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies: RemainCo, a [...]
Oil takes a beating as US/China trade war escalatesSeptember 3, 2019 // 2 CommentsAgainst the back of a tit-for-tat economic war, oil prices took a slide after new import tariffs imposed by the US and China [...]
Saudi Aramco expands into US petchem sector with acquisitionAugust 22, 2019 // 1 CommentSaudi Aramco’s US refining arm, Motiva Enterprises, has signed an agreement to acquire a 100% ownership interest in Flint [...]
Nouryon invests in metal alkyls plant at RotterdamAugust 22, 2019 // 2 CommentsChemical firm Nouryon has made a series of investments at its metal alkyls plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands to improve [...]
Sonatrach/Total utilising Spheripol tech for Algerian plantAugust 21, 2019 // 4 CommentsSonatrach Total Entreprise Polymeres Spa (STEP) has chosen LyondellBasell Industries’s Spheripol technology for a 550,000 [...]
Chengzhi Yongqing starts up butadiene plant using Wison techAugust 21, 2019 // 3 CommentsNanjing Chengzhi Yongqing Energy Technology Co., Ltd.’s new 100 kilotonnes/year butene-to-butadiene plant, built by [...]