Saudi Arabia >> 5/14/2008 - The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and Total have both confirmed their decision to invest in a 400,000 barrel per day world-class, full-conversion refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The refin... |
Kuwait >> 5/13/2008 - JGC Corporation and its partner GS Engineering & Construction (GS), Korea, announced that they received Award Notification by Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) to provide engineering, procureme... |
China >> 5/6/2008 - On May 1, Urumqi Petrochemical Company starts the construction of a paraxylene aromatic hydrocarbon complex plant. Aromatic hydrocarbon is a main raw material for general engineering plastics. This pr... |
Ukraine >> 4/18/2008 - OAO Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov and President Victor Yushchenko of Ukraine attended the official ceremony of commissioning the Odessa refinery as the reconstruction of the refinery, started in 20... |
Syria >> 4/7/2008 - CNPC President Jiang Jiemin and the Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources of Syrian Arab Republic signed two agreements at Syrian Prime Minister House, namely the Refinery Cooperation Agreement Be... |
Vietnam >> 4/7/2008 - Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, Kuwait Petroleum International, Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. announced that each company has reached an agreement to establish the joint venture company to ... |
United Arab Emirates >> 4/7/2008 - Borouge announced that it has initiated the feasibility study for Borouge 3: a further expansion of its polyolefin operations in Abu Dhabi to add approximately 2.5 million tonnes per year of capacity ... |
China >> 4/1/2008 - Total Petrochemicals announced that its joint-venture with Samsung, Samsung Total Petrochemicals, will build a polypropylene compounding facility in Dongguan, which is in the Pearl River area of Guang... |
Vietnam >> 3/27/2008 - Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. and Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. announced that each company has reached a decision to participate alongside Kuwait Petroleum International and Petro Vietnam in the joint venture "... |
United Arab Emirates >> 3/19/2008 - The International Petroleum Investment Company and Borealis AG have signed a memorandum of understanding along with Abu Dhabi Investment Council to prepare jointly for the first phase of the developme... |
China >> 3/17/2008 - China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation and BASF submitted the technical and commercial feasibility study for the approval of the planned $900 million expansion of their joint chemical Verbund site in ... |
China >> 2/13/2008 - PetroChina Petrochemical Company has selected Dow's UNIPOL(TM) Polypropylene Process Technology for its new 300 KTA polypropylene facility, and Aker Kvaerner will provide the extended process design p... |
China >> 1/31/2008 - China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.) and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) toward forming a joint venture company. This 50:50 equal share... |
Kenya >> 1/15/2008 - Essar Energy Overseas has entered into an agreement to acquire 50% of Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd. (“KPRL”), a 4 million metric tonne (MMTPA) per annum refinery in Mombasa, Kenya.The Government of ... |
Saudi Arabia >> 1/2/2008 - Progress on the Ras Tanura Refinery Arabian Heavy Expansion Project took a major step forward recently as Mohammed Y. Al-Qahtani, president and CEO of Aramco Services Co., and Edward Pagano, president... |
Kuwait >> 12/13/2007 - The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) of the State of Kuwait announced plans to form a 50/50 joint venture that will be a market-leading, global petrochemicals comp... |
Egypt >> 12/11/2007 - Within weeks of the start-up of its joint venture dimethyl ether (DME) plant in China, Methanex has executed a Memorandum of Understanding for the development of a similar plant in Egypt. This new pla... |
Saudi Arabia >> 12/4/2007 - Samsung Engineering announced that it had secured a major order from Saudi Aramco, the state-operated petroleum company of Saudi Arabia to build a DHDT Refinery Plant. The refinery plant is to be loc... |
India >> 12/4/2007 - Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and GAIL (India) Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Joint Co-operation in Petrochemicals. The MoU was signed in Mumbai by Shri A K Purwaha, Direct... |
Algeria >> 12/4/2007 - Christophe de Margerie, Chief Executive Officer of Total, and Mohamed Meziane, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sonatrach, today signed a framework agreement to build a petrochemical complex in... |