Mar 10, 2022
Aramco and Sinopec support downstream petrochem projects
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Mar 4, 2022
Pipelines
Siemens Energy secured an order from European Energy for the delivery of an electrolyser plant.
European Energy is developing the world's first large-scale commercial e-methanol production facility with the hydrogen being provided from a 50 MW electrolyser plant by Siemens Energy.
Siemens Energy will design, supply and commission the electrolysis system consisting of... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Mar 4, 2022
Pumps
AxFlow has acquired Pumpegruppen - a Danish pump supplier to the chemical industry.
It also supplies pumps for the water treatment and general industrial applications.
Pumpegruppen is a full-service pump specialist representing brands including Grundfos, Wilden, FTI and Speck.
The company is headquartered in Lyngby, near Copenhagen, and has another base in Rønde in... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Mar 3, 2022
Pumps
INEOS Aromatics has completed a $70 million (€63 million) modernisation of its purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant in Merak, Indonesia.
The installation of a larger oxidation reactor, reconfiguration of the reactor’s heat recovery system and revamp of the process air compressor train will both reduce CO2 emissions per tonne by 15% and increase the site capacity... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 25, 2022
Pumps
Tranter have received an order from a European-based company for a petrochemical project in Eastern Europe.
The project is one of the largest petrochemical investments in Europe in the last two decades.
Tranter's scope of delivery to the project is a total of 37 large heat exchangers from all of its product lines.
This includes four jumbo-sized shell-and-plate heat... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 22, 2022
Pipelines
Shell Chemicals Europe and Pryme have announced a strategic cooperation and off-take agreement for pyrolysis oil made from recycled plastic waste.
Pryme will supply Shell from its plant located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Currently under construction, the plant is scheduled to become operational in 2022 and is forecast to convert 60,000 tonnes of plastic waste into... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 18, 2022
Pumps
TotalEnergies and Honeywell are to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling.
Under this agreement, Honeywell will supply TotalEnergies with recycled polymer feedstock (RPF) using Honeywell’s UpCycle process technology at Honeywell and Sacyr’s advanced recycling plant, intended to be built in Andalucía, Spain.
TotalEnergies will purchase and convert... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 17, 2022
Pipelines
Sulzer Chemtech has finalised an agreement with Encina Development Group, LLC (Encina).
The company will provide technology to recover high-purity circular aromatics from cracked oil products derived from Encina’s mixed-plastics-to-aromatics catalytic conversion platform.
Encina’s 1,000 tonnes per year waste plastics recycling facility will be located in North-east... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 16, 2022
Pipelines
Trinseo’s plans for a new chemical recycling plant in Europe are progressing rapidly.
The global materials company and manufacturer of plastics and latex binders announced last year it will work with global technology provider Synova and global engineering services company Worley on an engineering package.
Work on Trinseo’s Tessenderlo in Belgium site for recycling... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 10, 2022
Pipelines
The Heavy-Feed Petrochemical Complex (HPC) achieved a fast and successful startup in December after using Shell Catalysts & Technologies (SC&T) C2 FE selective hydrogenation catalyst.
Operated by Hyundai Chemicals and located in Daesan, South Korea, the facility is its first heavy-feed grassroot 750 kTA ethylene cracker.
It is capable of processing various feedstocks... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 9, 2022
Pipelines
Nexolub and Cepsa, a global energy and chemical company, have teamed up to deliver a supply of 100% carbon neutral lubricant base oils.
Net-zero lubricant base oils are a first step towards the medium-term sustainability of this type of product.
Nexolub is offering the opportunity to offset its carbon footprint through carbon credits, which are then converted into sustainable... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 3, 2022
Pipelines
Hy2gen plans to produce green ammonia as a fuel for the maritime sector.
The company specialising in designing, building and operating facilities to produce green hydrogen and green hydrogen-based derivatives, will carry out the work in Sauda, Norway.
The green ammonia production facility, named Iverson eFuels AS, will be owned by Hy2gen, Trafigura and Copenhagen Infrastructure... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 2, 2022
Pumps
Wanner International has announced that it can reduce the total energy usage by up to a half for some industries that rely heavily on pumps for their processes with its Hydra-Cell® device.
Wanner provides pumps for a range of industries across the globe, from oil and gas, through to food production and chemical production.
The Hydra-Cell® pump’s true positive displacement... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 28, 2022
Other
ABB and Coolbrook have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to commercialise the adoption of Roto Dynamic Reactor (RDR) technology in a bid to significantly reduce GHG emissions in steam cracking plants.
The agreement will unite the two companies’ expertise and create a combined offering of Coolbrook’s novel electrically driven RDR technology and ABB’s integrated,... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 21, 2022
Pumps
ExxonMobil and SABIC have revealed a successful startup of Gulf Coast Growth Ventures’ world-scale manufacturing facility in San Patricio County, Texas.
The operation includes a 1.8 MM metric tpy ethane steam cracker, two polyethylene units capable of producing up to 1.3 MM metric tpy, and a monoethylene glycol unit with a capacity of 1.1 MM metric tpy.
“We built... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 14, 2022
Pumps
Bedford Pumps has provided two of their fish friendly pumps to a chemical plant in Runcorn in the UK to aid in the chemical process.
INOVYN ChlorVinyls, part of INEOS, is Europe’s leading producer of vinyls and manufactures in eight countries across Europe.
Their Runcorn site which focuses on the production of chlorine, caustic soda and chlorinated derivatives, produces... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 13, 2022
Pipelines
CropEnergies and Johnson Matthey have entered into an engineering, license and technical services agreement for a plant to produce renewable ethyl acetate from sustainable ethanol.
This will take palce near CropEnergies’ production site in Zeitz, Germany.
Using Johnson Matthey technology, the renewable ethyl acetate produced by CropEnergies will reduce the fossil carbon... [Read More]
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