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LyondellBasell Industries' 105,000 bpd Berre l'Etang refining and petrochemicals units, located in southern France near Fos-Lavera oil terminal, are operating as planned. Regarding demurr...
Formosa Petrochemical Corp has idled No. 2 naphtha cracker for planned maintenance. One of the Taiwanese majors’ other three crude distillation units, shut in late July following an outag...
South Korea’s Honam Petrochemical Corp. and Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. plan to build a polypropylene (PP) catalyst plant by the end of 2012. The plant to be built in Yeosu, will a...
Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) has concluded a term deal for naphtha supplies lifting December 2010 to November 2011, to customers including Japanese Mitsubishi Chemicals, Mitsui Chemicals, ...
Demands of the automotive industry for lighter-weight, higher-performance, lower-cost, and more environmentally-sustainable solutions, have been met with the development of a new SBC-base...
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for November delivery fell to US$81.1, while Brent North Sea crude settled lower at US$83.1. Oil prices have slipped in Asia, as investors awai...
A large union in France- CGT, has called an open-ended strike in the petrochemical industry from Oct. 12 in protest over a planned pension reform, as Reuters. The CGT, the dominant union ...
Air Liquide has signed a long term agreement with RusVinyl, whereby it will supply oxygen, nitrogen and compressed dry air to RusVinyl's new world-scale PVC plant being built in Kstovo, i...
Two new random copolymer PP grades for cast film and biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film applications have been added to its portfolio by SABIC. The new grades – SABIC® PP 622L a...
Spot PE prices in Southeast Asia have gained over the past week due to limited regional availability, higher upstream costs and improving demand, as per Chemorbis. Most players expect pri...
Lummus Technology, a CB&I Company, has signed an agreement with BP for the exclusive right to license and market BP’s paraxylene recovery and isomerization technology and catalyst. CB&I’s...
Hamburg-based trading firm Helm AG has ceased all petrochemicals trade with Iran, following a decision by the company's management last month, as per Platts. "The company management dec...
Asia remains well supplied even as Asian naphtha rose for the seventh consecutive session to a five-month high, and cracks rose to settle at their highest in four months as strong Europea...
A falling dollar has offset reports of higher crude inventories in USA. World oil prices extended gains in Asian trade- light sweet crude for November delivery was traded at US$83.4, whil...
BASF is continuing to pursue the strategic development of its styrenics business and plans to establish STYROLUTION to make the business even more viable for the future. By January 1, 2...
The oil and gas industry is working in ever more extreme conditions and failure is very expensive to fix in some of these locations: the replacement of a faulty seal or a broken pipe can ...
A leaning tower over the Houston Ship Channel has caused the closure of the waterway to the top US petrochemical port, including four refineries providing 4.9% of US refining capacity, as...
With effect from 2013, SABICSABIC has has has signed a long-term contract with Oiltanking Stolthaven Antwerp NV for storage services. The agreement will ensure an uninterrupted supply of...
Naphtha prices in Asia rose for the sixth consecutive session to reach levels near a five-month high, as cracks eased to a three-session low amid a strong European market that was counter...
South Korea's LG Chem has inked a contract for the term supply of 200,000 tpa of open spec naphtha for January-December 2011. As per Platts, this is half the amount of its purchases for J...
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