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South Korea's third-biggest oil refiner- S-Oil Corp., plans to resume operations at its 45,000 bpd naphtha reformer. The reformer, which processes naphtha into benzene, toluene and xylene...
Dow Chemical Co. and Siam Cement PLC, Thailand's largest industrial group, have entered a JV to build a US$1.1 billion naphtha cracker plant in Rayong province on Thailand's eastern coast...
Conventionally made of glass or silica, optical fibres are expensive to produce, fragile and not very flexible - which limits their application. Australian researchers have developed opti...
Huntsman Corporation's largest olefins manufacturing facility, that had idled on September 22 in advance of Hurricane Rita's landfall near Port Arthur, Texas has returned to production. T...
Despite minor gains, oil futures remained below US$60 a barrel, as forecasts of warmer than usual weather in the US relieved concerns of rising heating fuel demand. December Brent crude f...
Japanese petrochemicals maker Tosoh Corp. plans to shut its 493,000 tpa naphtha cracker at Yokkaichi in Mie prefecture. This shutdown is planned for about 40 days between early March and ...
Delay in completion of petrochemicals project Fénix will hurt the Mexican economy in the near future. In early September, it was announced that the Fénix project, a joint venture between ...
Mitsui Chemicals Inc., Japanese petrochemical major, has plans to defer the regular naphtha maintenance shutdown at its plants in Ichihara and Osaka scheduled for 2006 until 2007. Namepl...
The Dow Chemical Co. has decided to close its 75,000 mta polystyrene production facility at South Wales, in the United Kingdom, by the end of 2005. This decision reflects the competitive...
World crude oil prices plunged below US$60 per barrel as above-normal temperature prevailed across most of the northern America and the storm-battered outputs and refineries continues. Wa...
Flex Industries has approved an expansion proposal for the manufacture of polyester film and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) chips at an investment of US$50mn. The Company is planning th...
Aiming to tap Chinese demand and to secure naphtha supplies amid an expected fall in Middle Eastern exports, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. and Japan Energy Corp. plan to jointly invest 70 bil...
Due to an extension of previously announced shutdowns, NOVA Chemicals Corp. has declared force majeure (FM) on on ethylene, propylene and other co-products at its Corunna, Ontario, plant ...
The Aromatic IV project by Borzuyeh Petrochemical Complex is slated to be commissioned by December 2005. The pre-commissioning stage, at the moment, includes testing pipes, furnaces, and ...
Russia's Stroytransgaz has proposed constructing an oil refinery and petrochemicals plant in Syria at an estimated cost of $2 billion in talks between the two. Stroytransgaz plans to carr...
Concerns that reduced fuel production during peak winter demand could drive prices back up have waned as a mild start to the winter helped push US crude futures below US$59 on Wednesday f...
After the two remaining bidders contending for Eleme Petrochemical Company Limited (EPCL) offered ridiculous prices for acquiring the company, Nigeria's National Council on Privatisation ...
Lyondell's Texas Gulf Coast ethylene, propylene oxide (PO) and refining facilities, as well as the majority of its derivative facilities have safely resumed operations after having been s...
Thailand's N0. 2 Thai Olefins (TOC) and N0. 3 National Petrochemical (NPC) are expected to complete a merger in December to form PTT Chemical Plc. Upon completion of the deal, PTT Chemica...
State-run Chinese Petroleum Corp (CPC) will send a delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to reconfirm International Petroleum Investment Corporation's offer to invest 20% stake in ...
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