Jun 13, 2022
Sasol and GTL continue next generation catalyst cooperation
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jun 13, 2022
Pipelines
Linde Engineering has been selected by Slovnaft to conduct a complex large-scale revamp of a polypropylene (PP3) plant in Bratislava, Slovakia.
The revamp will extend the plant’s capacity by 18% to 300,000 tpy of polypropylene, and the storage facility will be expanded from the current 45 to 61 silos in total.
The revamped plant, has been designed to offer a higher... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
May 23, 2022
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Kent, a leading engineering company in energy transition such as carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS), hydrogen (H2), low carbon fuels and chemicals has been awarded a major contract for the Hydrogen Production Plant Project.
The project will unlock a low carbon future for north west England and north Wales, producing and distributing low carbon hydrogen to... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
May 9, 2022
Pipelines
bp has signed a 10-year offtake agreement to convert hard-to-recycle waste plastics into circular petrochemical feedstocks and also into ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD).
Clean Planet Energy designs and builds facilities — which they refer to as ecoPlants — that are expected to process plastics typically rejected by traditional recycling centres and so would otherwise... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Apr 26, 2022
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Borealis and Axens have inked an agreement for the Rewind® Mix process to purify and upgrade 50 000 tpy of pyrolysis oils produced from plastics wastes at a petrochemical plant in Sweden.
The unit at the Borealis facility in Stenungsund is planned to be in commercial operation in 2025, subject to Final Investment Decision (FID), and will produce a virgin-like recycled... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Mar 29, 2022
Pipelines
Neste is conducting a feasibility study to examine investing in capacity for processing liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.
The goal is to scale up processing capabilities for liquefied waste plastic by implementing proprietary technologies to pretreat and upgrade liquefied waste plastic and integrating the technologies into the refinery operations.
The... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Mar 28, 2022
Pipelines
KBR has announced that it has secured a contract from a leading midstream company for a new olefins production facility to be built on the US Gulf Coast.
Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide the license and engineering for the olefins production plant.
KBR’s K-COT catalytic olefins technology is the key enabler that can process a wide range of feedstocks... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Mar 25, 2022
Pipelines
ExxonMobil has announced it is building an integrated petrochemical complex and is targeting commercial start up next year.
The construction of the new linear alpha olefins (LAO) manufacturing unit will take place in Baytown, Texas, US.
When fully operational, the new facility will have the capacity to produce approximately 350 000 tpy of LAO.
ExxonMobil will manufacture... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Mar 10, 2022
Pipelines
Saudi Aramco Asia has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sinopec for potential downstream collaboration in China.
SAAC and Sinopec also aim to support Fujian Refining and Petrochemical Co (FREP) in conducting a feasibility study into the optimisation and expansion of capacity.
The MoU provides a basis for continued downstream collaboration between Aramco... [Read More]
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
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 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
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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