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Petrochemical products prices have improved in recent weeks, reaching the highest levels yet for 2009. Downstream products such as benzene and polymers have recovered from industry lows o...
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), has plans for a 10 mln ton refining and 1 mln ton ethylene complex in Dongying City, Shandong Province. The complex and supporting equipme...
Europe’s propylene market, currently faced with multiple cracker shutdowns and better-than-expected demand will be further impacted with the shutdown of Total’s Dunkirk refinery in France...
Saudi Aramco’s planned JV with Dow Chemical will have an annual production capacity of 8 million tons of petrochemical products from its 35 units. The project is in the engineering and de...
A wide gap in price between seller’s idea and buying intentions has immobilized the US acrylonitrile (ACN) export spot market. Persistent increases in feedstock propylene prices have resu...
Industries Qatar (IQ)’s planned 600,000 tpa LDPE plant is estimated to cost QR700 mln more than the original QR1.6 bln estimated in 2008. This translates into a 44% hike in costs to QR2.3...
With effect from September 1, 2009, LyondellBasell has raised prices of its polyethylene and polypropylene grades in Europe. To keep up with rising feedstock prices, the price for PE was ...
September PP prices were expected to rise by about 12 cents/lb (US$265/ton), in line with Wednesday's settlement of the polymer-grade propylene (PGP) contract as per ICIS. High prices in ...
Roquette has been rewarded with the 2009 Pierre Potier prize for its POLYSORB® ID 37, a high-performance plasticizer produced from natural products, and it continue sto work further in th...
Initial US propylene contracts for September were settled at an increase of 12 cents/lb (US$265/ton), propped up by tight supply, steady demand and a jump in refinery-grade propylene (RGP...
A fresh report in USA has reported unemployment rate climbed to 9.7% in August from 9.4% in July. The report revealed a narrowing decline in payrolls in August, pulling down oil prices. N...
A planned joint venture polycarbonate and bisphenol-A plant in Beijing between Mitsubishi Chemical Corp and Sinopec could face a possible delay in start up.Start up of the 60,000 ton poly...
Offering smaller sized cargoes, Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) has sold 30,000 tons of naphtha for September lifting below market price -15,000 tons of full-range naphtha was sold by...
Oil prices continue falling despite an Energy Department report showing a drop in crude and gasoline supplies that suggests demand may be recovering. This could be because currently oil a...
A delay in start up of an aromatics complex by Kuwait Petroleum Corp is apparent as it has offered 50,000 tons of naphtha for mid-October lifting. Additionally, about 400,000 tons of Midd...
It is unlikely Kuwait Petroleum Corp’s delayed aromatics complex will start up next month as expected. 1.5 mln tpa of naphtha will be required a feedstock at the plant was to begin operat...
After some uncertainty, major North American polyethylene makers have delayed 4-cent/lb price hike from Aug. 1 to Sept. 1 as per Plasticnews. PE market pricing for August was expected to ...
As demand for polyethylenes has got boosted by rising demand from Asia, Lyondell Chemical, has reversed its decision to permanently shut it 180,000 tons HDPE plant at Chocolate Bayou site...
A new water bottle Purebot ™ has been introduced, which gives consumers all the advantages of modern plastics without the associated health risks of estrogenic activity (EA). Scientists a...
A new high-performance range of Lupolen high density polyethylene (HDPE) resins to address the diversified requirements of customer rotomolding applications has been introduced by Lyondel...
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