Saudi Aramco suspends 50% of production after drone attacks on Abqaiq, Khurais facilities

50% of Saudi Aramco's production at its plants in Abqaiq and Khurais has been suspended following a result of terrorist drone attacks. These attacks resulted in production suspensi...

Borealis declares force majeure in Kallo, Belgium and Burghausen, Germany

Borealis AG has declared force majeures in two production sites in Kallo, Belgium and Burghausen, Germany, as per plasticsnews.com.  FM has been declared on refinery grade ...

High-Temperature Thermoplastics market to reach US$ 32.79 bln by 2026 at a CAGR of 10.44%

High-Temperature Thermoplastics (HTTs) market  was valued at US$ 14.82 bln in 2018 and is expected to reach US$ 32.79 bln by 2026, at a CAGR of 10.44%, as per Maximize Market Rese...

Maintenance shutdown at IOC's only naphtha cracker and half of Panipat refinery

Successful completion of mechanical construction on MEGlobal’s world-class ethylene glycol (EG) Texas facility

EQUATE Group has announce the inauguration of its new MEGlobal Oyster Creek site in Oyster Creek, Texas, USA. The world-scale, 750,000 metric-tons-annually (mta) ethylene glycol (EG) m...

Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymères selects Honeywell UOP’s C3 OleflexTM technology

Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymères (STEP) has selected Honeywell UOP’s C3 OleflexTM technology to produce 565 000 tpa of polymer-grade propylene for a proposed plant in ...

Global polymer stabilizers market to register CAGR of over 3.5% from 2019 to 2024

The global polymer stabilizers market is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 3.5% during the forecast period of 2019 - 2024, as per Reportlinker. Polymer stabilizers are added in polyme...

GS E&C awarded HMC Polypropylene (PP) 4 project by Thailand's HMC Polymers

GS E&C hass been awarded a USUS$230 mln order for HMC Polypropylene (PP) 4” project from HMC Polymers. HMC Polymers is 41% owned by PTTGC, 29% by Lyondell Basell and 30% by o...

Schneider Electric launches EcoStruxure to drive efficiency in oil, gas and petrochemical industry in India

Schneider Electric has announced the launch of Eco Struxure Power & Process (EP&P) to drive efficiency and augment profitability in India’s rapidly evolving oil & gas...

ONGC mulls buying out rest of OPaL

India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp Ltd plans to buy out the rest of ONGC Petro additions Ltd (OPaL), majority-owned by ONGC, and launch a public offering if it fails to find a stra...

Honeywell successfully commissions second C3 Oleflex™ unit for Zhejiang Satellite

Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co., Ltd. is using Honeywell UOP's C3 Oleflex™ technology to produce 450,000 metric tpa of polymer-grade propylene for a new petrochemicals c...

China to invest US$400 bln over 5 years partly to develop Iran’s oil, gas and petrochem sectors

Plans of China planning to invest US$400  have been revealed. Out of this, US$280 billion could be towards developing Iran’s oil, gas and petrochemicals sectors over the nex...

Global polyolefin film market to reach US$125 mln by 2024 at a CAGR of 4.2%

The polyolefin (POF) film market is expected to reach an estimated $125 billion by 2024 with a CAGR of 4.2% from 2019, as per ResearchAndMarkets.com. The future of the polyolefin (POF)...

LyondellBasell in JV to build US$2.5 bln petrochemical and plastics complex in China

Houston petrochemical maker LyondellBasell is starting a new joint venture to build a US$2.5 bln petrochemical and plastics complex in China. The 50-50 partnership is with the Liaoning...

PKN ORLEN has licensed Honeywell UOP MaxEne process to increase production of ethylene and aromatics

Honeywell UOP has announced that PKN ORLEN has licensed the UOP MaxEne process, which can increase production of ethylene and aromatics and improve the flexibility of gasoline producti...

Saudi Aramco inks MoU with Zhejiang Free Trade Zone

Saudi Aramco has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s Zhejiang Free Trade Zone, in which the Zhoushan Government emphasised its support for incentivising Saudi...

Haldia Petrochemicals to invest Rs 50,000 cr in Tamil Nadu naphtha unit

Haldia Petrochemicals has signed an agreement to invest Rs 50,000 crore to set up a naphtha cracker unit in Tamil Nadu. In a bid to attract investors, Palaniswami is on a two...

BPCL to invest Rs 25,000 cr in an ethylene cracker unit at Rasaya

State-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) will invest about ?25,000 crore to set up an ethylene cracker plant at Rasayani, 50 kilometres from its Mumbai refinery, as the firm...

Aptar partners with PureCycle to accelerate integration of ultra-pure recycled PP into Dispensing Solutions

AptarGroup, Inc., a global leader in dispensing, drug delivery and active packaging solutions, announced today that it has partnered with PureCycle Technologies, to prepare for the int...

Honeywell helps Mexican petrochem maker incorporate intelligent wearables to enhance training and safety

Honeywell announced that Braskem Idesa has adopted a hands-free, wearable connected technology solution at its plant in Veracruz, Mexico. Honeywell's Intelligent Wearables will all...