Kuwait >> 8/17/2009 - EQUATE Petrochemical Company officially announced the beginning of commercial operations of The Kuwait Styrene Company’s (TKSC) new Ethyl Benzene & Styrene Monomer (EBSM) production plant. ... |
Netherlands/Holland >> 8/13/2009 - Royal Dutch Shell plc said it will build a new hydrodesulphurisation plant at its Pernis Refinery in the Netherlands. The plant, expected to come on stream in the second half of 2011, will increase cl... |
Saudi Arabia >> 8/10/2009 - Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and Mitsubishi Rayon Company Ltd (MRC) signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) on August 10, 2009, to establish a 50/50 joint venture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.... |
China >> 7/30/2009 - On July 21, world's largest NBR plant was completed at Lanzhou Petrochemical Company. ... |
Costa Rica >> 7/27/2009 - China National Petroleum Corporation International and Costa Rica National Oil Company (RECOPE) signed a supplementary agreement at Costa Rica President's Office on July 15. This agreement complements... |
China >> 7/22/2009 - On July 17, Jilin Petrochemical laid foundations for the construction of a 10 Mt/a refining expansion project and a 400 kt/a ABS project. ... |
China >> 7/22/2009 - PetroChina has started building a 2.5 million tonne-per-year (tpy) catalytic cracker as well as several other units in Sichuan, part of the largest refining and chemical complex in southwestern China.... |
United States >> 7/14/2009 - The Shaw Group Inc. announced the Maintenance Division of its Power Group has been awarded maintenance, modifications, and packaging and small capital construction contract by Lion Copolymer to servic... |
Saudi Arabia >> 7/12/2009 - Sipchem and Hanwha Chemical Corporation of South Korea announced that they have signed a Joint Venture Agreement to establish a new petrochemical company in Al-Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia tha... |
China >> 7/11/2009 - Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) announced that it has received an official approval from the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to participate jointly with China Petr... |
India >> 7/1/2009 - Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has bagged major orders aggregating Rs. 6510 million (Rs. 651 crore) for two hydrocarbon projects. L&T will build a green field refinery project at Bathinda for HPCL-Mittal Ener... |
Saudi Arabia >> 6/2/2009 - Following the successful start-up of Lotte Daesan's mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) plant in Korea in May 2008, the second plant to license the Shell Global Solutions OMEGA (Only Mono-Ethylene Glycol Advan... |
Saudi Arabia >> 5/9/2009 - The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation and the Saudi International Petrochemical Company announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for mutual cooperation in the setting up of... |
Saudi Arabia >> 4/29/2009 - Saudi Ethylene and Polyethylene Company (SEPC) has successfully started up its Petrochemical Complex in Al-Jubail Industrial City, located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. SEPC, formed in 2006, is a jo... |
Nigeria >> 4/27/2009 - Oando PLC, Nigeria's leading integrated energy group, has taken a bold step in its commitment to end Nigeria's petroleum products supply shortages, with the completion of a comprehensive 4-month banka... |
Saudi Arabia >> 4/20/2009 - The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (“Saudi Aramco”), Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd and Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company (“Petro Rabigh”) yesterday signed the Memorandum of Understanding leading to th... |
United Arab Emirates >> 4/13/2009 - Following the successful completion of the feasibility study announced last year, Borouge, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has decided to enter the FEED (front-end... |
Iran >> 4/11/2009 - Five petrochemical projects in joint ventures with foreign companies have been launched in the current Iranian calendar year (began March 21, 2009), said Iran’s National Petrochemical Company director... |
Saudi Arabia >> 4/9/2009 - Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company (Petro Rabigh) has announced the successful start-up of the Ethane Cracker Unit, one of the core facilities of its mega Refining and Petrochemical Complex new... |
Iran >> 4/8/2009 - Iran has exported $7.1 billion worth of petrochemical products in the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20), according to a report released by the National Petrochemical Company (NPC). ... |