Malaysia's Petronas hopes to restart its Pengerang refinery-petrochemical complex, a joint venture with Saudi Aramco, by the end of the year. Arif Mahmood, Petronas' executive vice president and CEO of downstream, said the the 300,000-bpd refinery complex in Johor was shut in March last year following a deadly fire. The Malaysian state energy firm in February delayed... [Read More]

SIBUR and TAIF have entered into an agreement finalising the creation of a combined entity that be the largest petrochemical company in Russia and one of the biggest in the world. Under the agreement, TAIF shareholders will receive a 15% stake in the new combined company in exchange for 50% plus 1 share in JSC TAIF. The new company will support Russia’s leadership... [Read More]

FOUR new companies have signed up to join the North West Hydrogen Alliance (NWHA) in the UK. The new members - Fichtner, Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), Powerhouse Energy and Swagelok – take the membership count to 30, cementing the organisation’s position as the UK’s largest industry-funded regional hydrogen alliance. It comes as the Alliance throws its... [Read More]

Shell Ventures and BlueAlp Holding have announced a new partnership to develop and deploy plastic waste to chemical feedstock technology. The technology transforms plastic waste into pyrolysis oil that can be used to make sustainable chemicals. Shell has taken a 21.25% equity stake in BlueAlp as part of the agreement. “With BlueAlp’s innovative technology and Shell’s... [Read More]

bp Singapore has announced it has delivered its ‎first carbon offset liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to the Yung An terminal in Taiwan. This is bp’s first delivery of carbon offset LNG in the Asia-Pacific region, following its ‎first delivery globally to Sempra LNG at the Energia Costa Azul terminal in Mexico in ‎July. This new carbon offset LNG offer strengthens... [Read More]

Canada is pushing to provide incentives for at least two new massive carbon capture projects by 2030 with nearly a dozen oil and gas companies already pursuing rights to store carbon dioxide in Alberta's vast underground caverns. The hubs to collect carbon from clusters of emitters would advance Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's goal of cutting emissions by 40-45% from... [Read More]

The largest integrated petrochemical company in Indonesia has boosted sustainability through technology that enables effective remote and digital monitoring of its water operations. Chandri Asri has incorporated Nalco Water’s 3D TRASAR Cooling Water Technology and has gradually moved more of its water monitoring to the programme. Last year, the company reported its... [Read More]

KBR has been awarded a technology licensing contract by Hyundai Engineering and Técnicas Reunidas for PKN ORLEN’s petrochemical project. The Petrochemical Development Programme in Plock, Poland, will see KBR provide technology license, basic engineering design, and proprietary equipment for PKN ORLEN’s Olefins Complex III Project. This is Europe’s largest petrochemical... [Read More]

Inter Pipeline will receive $408 million (€347 million) under the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Programme (APIP). The grant has been awarded in support of Inter Pipeline’s Heartland petrochemical complex - an integrated propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene production facility, which will be operational early next year. “The APIP grant recognises... [Read More]

BASF and SINOPEC are to expand their Verbund site which will include several new downstream chemical plants. The partners will expand the production capacities of propionic acid, propionic aldehyde, ethyleneamines, ethanolamines and purified ethylene oxide, and build a new tert-butyl acrylate plant. The tert-butyl acrylate plant will be an extension to the downstream... [Read More]

A total of 150 intelligent electric actuators on Rotork’s Pakscan control network have been ordered by a Spanish processing plant. Some of Rotork’s IQ range of intelligent electric actuators have already been installed at the Quimica Puente Mayorga chemical processing plant in Cádiz. The remainder are to be installed in the coming months. The plant is owned by... [Read More]

Exchanger Industries Limited, the Canadian designer and manufacturer of heat transfer products for the energy, petrochemical, industrial and clean power generation sectors, has acquired HRS Heat Exchangers. HRS is a specialist global supplier of heat exchangers and custom process systems across the environmental, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. The acquisition... [Read More]

RusGazDobycha, a business partner of Russian gas giant Gazprom, plans to start building a chemical plant as part of a massive gas processing cluster on the shores of the Baltic Sea. The wider project with Gazprom's participation will help Russia, already a leading energy producer, to reach its goal of boosting its share of the liquefied natural gas market (LNG). The... [Read More]

Bilfinger has been commissioned by the Swiss chemical company Clariant to help in the construction of their new cellulosic ethanol production plant. The company will be involved in the engineering, procurement, overall project and construction management services for the project in south-west Romania. The new production plant in Podari, which is expected to go onstream... [Read More]

Sulzer Chemtech’s proprietary separation technology for lactide production will be used in a Chinese plant. The company has been selected for Zhejiang Depei New Material Co.’s latest facility in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. The processing equipment will enable the company to produce large volumes of high-quality lactide from plant biomass. The plant will leverage... [Read More]

Asia will drive the global new-build pipelines additions by 2024, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. GlobalData’s latest report, Global length and capital expenditure outlook for oil and gas pipelines, 2020−2024: Asia leads global pipeline growth, reveals that Asia is likely to have a new-build oil and gas pipeline length of 46,699 km by 2024.... [Read More]