BASF has given its final approval for the construction of the planned Verbund site in Zhanjiang in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. The project is on schedule and will now focused on building the core of the project, which includes a steam cracker and several downstream plants for the production of petrochemicals and intermediates, among others. BASF will... [Read More]

Repsol will invest €105 million in the Puertollano Industrial Complex to build the first plant in the Iberian Peninsula capable of manufacturing ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE). This new plant will be operational by the end of 2024 and will have an annual capacity of 15,000 tons. For the construction of the plant, Repsol has selected the technology... [Read More]

Twelve, the carbon transformation company, has announced $130 million (€124 million) in funding to turn CO2 into chemicals, fuels and materials conventionally made from petrochemicals. Twelve’s carbon transformation technology converts captured CO2 into products historically made from fossil fuels. According to research from Columbia’s SIPA Center on Global Energy... [Read More]

INEOS Oligomers has announced a phased 50% expansion of its LaPorte High Viscosity (HV) PAO unit. The plant in Texas is expected to be fully operational by mid-2025. The unit was initially built with a nameplate capacity of 20,000 tonnes per annum but was engineered to allow efficient expansion to support anticipated sales growth. It was debottlenecked a first time... [Read More]

Tata Chemicals Europe has opened the UK’s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant signalling a key milestone in the race to meet the UK’s net zero targets. The £20 million (€23 million) investment has been completed by Northwich-based Tata Chemicals Europe. The plant captures 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year - the equivalent to taking over... [Read More]

Sasol and Uzbekistan GTL’s ongoing cooperation took a significant step forward with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the supply of Low Temperature Fischer Tropsch (LTFT) catalysts. The signing took place during Baku Energy Week, one of most prestigious events in the energy sector in the Caspian region, held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The... [Read More]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]