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Crude oil prices slipped on expectation that Hurricane Wilma will miss oil facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, as it accelerated toward Florida. After moving slowly through the Caribbean an...
In an efforts to boost petrochemical production, Nippon Oil has teamed up with Mitsubishi Gas Chemical for a JV project in the paraxylene business. Nippon Oil plans to increase its annual...
Abundant and competitively priced gas in the Gulf region coupled with the availability of long-term finance seeking investment opportunities, have triggered the robust growth of the petro...
SABIC's affiliated Company; Arabian Industrial Fibers Company (IBN RUSHD) plans to meet the growing local and global demand especially from the packaging products industry. IBN RUSHD plan...
Affiliates of Iran's National Petrochemical Co., Lorestan Petrochemical Co and Mahabad Petrochemical Co have selected Basell's Spherilene technology for a new linear low density polyethyl...
million tons in 2008. By 2010, the GCC will account for 20% of global ethylene capacity, while the US share will fall to 24%. Petrochemicals are the third most important source of grow...
Saudi Arabia's emerging strength as a global petrochem hub will arise from increased capital investment in hydrocarbon sub-sectors to US$94.4 billion in the period from 2004-2009. Saudi ...
Hydrocarbon major Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) plans to raise its turnover from US$35 bln to US$60 bln by 2011-12. This increase in turnover will mostly be fuelled by forward integration ...
Demand for petrochemicals is projected to grow at a pace of about 5% in the period from 2005-2015 in Philippines, unlike the slowing demand in the petroleum industry. Prices are also bett...
As supplies rise, demand growth is slowing and Hurricane Wilma has missed the key oil and natural-gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, oil prices have begun sliding. Light sweet crude o...
The Malaysian government has completed its investigation and confirmed that the dumping of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Korea and Thailand had material...
Westlake Chemical Corp has restarted its olefins petrochemical complex in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The plant follows an orderly shut down in anticipation of Hurricane Rita. The downstre...
China's top oil and gas firm, PetroChina, is raising the capacity of its naphtha cracker being built in Lanzhou by 25% to 450,000 tpa. This capacity increase will make the plant more cos...
China's Sinopec Co., Ltd. and Japan's Mitsui Chemical Co., Ltd. Will build a 120,000-ton bisphenol A (BPA) project, the largest in China, in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Zone. The proje...
Sinopec, Asia's largest refiner, is working towards management of its scant cash flow as refining margins continue to deteriorate. In early September Sinopec cut its 2005 full-year capita...
Japanese petrochemical plants can switch 5-10% of feedstock use from naphtha to non-naphtha. However, naphtha accounted for about 96% of Japan's petrochemical feedstock needs in 2004, in ...
Trading of plastics futures on the London Metal Exchange has increased strongly in recent days as Companies are hedging PP and LLDPE prices for 2006. For the month of September, 45,000 t...
Japanese petrochemical maker Showa Denko KK plans to shut its Oita plant in southern Japan. The plant is the company's sole facility in Oita, and has a capacity to produce 653,000 tpa of ...
An Iranian company- Fanavaran Petrochemical Complex, has teamed up with a German firm- Lurgi, to commercially convert methanol into propylene for use in the petrochemicals industry. The ...
Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. announced resumption of production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) and chlor-alkali (caustic soda) at the compan...
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