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Archives :: World News and Views :: Mideast/Africa
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October 26, 2011
Crest Chemicals (Midrand, South Africa), a chemical distribution joint venture between Brenntag and AECI (Johannesburg), has acquired certain assets of WK Croxton (Pietermaritzburg...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/africa/south_africa/Brenntag-JV-Acquires-Assets-in-South-Africa_38573.html October 26, 2011
Methanol Chemicals Company (Chemanol; Jubail, Saudi Arabia) hasrestarted commercial operations at its methanol and dimethyl formamide plants at Jubail, following “technical...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Chemanol-Restarts-Commercial-Operations-at-its-Methanol-and-Dimethyl-Formamide-Plants_38548.html October 17, 2011
PolyOne says it has agreed to form a color concentrates joint venture with Saudi manufacturing, engineering, construction, distribution, and service company E.A. Juffali &...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/PolyOne-Forms-Saudi-Color-Concentrates-JV_38380.html October 17, 2011
China National Chemical Corp. (ChemChina; Beijing) has completed the previously announced acquisition of a 60% stake in Makhteshim Agan Industries (MAI; Tel Aviv). MAI's shares are...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/ChemChina-Completes-Acquisition-of-Majority-Stake-in-Makhteshim_38362.html October 14, 2011
DuPont says the South African Competition Tribunal has rejected its bid to buy a majority stake in Pannar Seed (Greytown, South Africa), Africa’s largest seed firm. The Tribunal...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/africa/DuPont-Bid-for-Pannar-Denied_38312.html October 13, 2011
Methanol Chemicals Company (Chemanol; Jubail, Saudi Arabia), a producer of methanol and derivatives, has taken offline its methanol and dimethyl formamide plants for a period of about...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Chemanol-Takes-Methanol-and-Dimethyl-Formamide-Plants-Offline-to-Carry-Out-Improvements_38263.html October 10, 2011
Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical have signed a shareholders' agreement for their previously announced Sadara Chemical joint venture. Sadara will build a $20-billion manufacturing complex...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Aramco-and-Dow-Sign-Shareholders-Agreement-for-Sadara-Chemical-JV_38188.html October 7, 2011
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) producer Tronox has announced plans to acquire the mineral sands operations of Exxaro Resources (Pretoria, South Africa) in exchange for approximately 38.5% of...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/africa/south_africa/Tronox-Acquires-Mineral-Sands-Business-Ups-Back-Integration_38139.html October 6, 2011
Air Products has agreed to buy a 25% stake in Abdullah Hashim Industrial Gases & Equipment Co. Ltd. (AHG; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), the largest privately held industrial gases company...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Air-Products-Buys-Stake-in-Saudi-Gases-Firm_37960.html October 6, 2011
Saudi Kayan Petrochemical, a Sabic affiliate, has begun production at the company’s Jubail petrochemicals complex. Most of the production units are now operational, including...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Saudi-Kayan-Commissions-Big-Petrochemical-Complex-at-Jubail_38065.html October 5, 2011
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has chosen to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Daniel Shechtman, 70, from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel)...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Israeli-Awarded-2011-Nobel-Prize-for-Chemistry-for-Discovering-Quasicrystals_38044.html October 5, 2011
National Chemical Carriers (NCC; Riyadh), a subsidiary of the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, says it has received a new 45,000-dwt m.t. chemical tanker named NCC Danah from...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Saudi-Arabia-Takes-Delivery-of-New-Chemical-Tanker_38040.html September 28, 2011
Alujain Corporation says that has had to take offline a propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene (PP) complex at Yanbu belonging to subsidiary NatPet, following a “sudden...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/NatPet-Takes-Yanbu-PP-Complex-Offline-Due-to-Technical-Problems_37914.html September 26, 2011
Mukundan: Low-cost urea production. Tata Chemicals has told the Bombay Stock Exchange that its Gabon Fertilizer Co. (GFC) joint venture has signed a “pre-construction services...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/africa/Tata-Selects-Technip-as-EPC-Contractor-for-Gabon-jv_37802.html September 26, 2011
Saudi Aramco has awarded a contract to Axens to provide its process technologies for a previously announced refinery at Jazan, Saudi Arabia as well as the associated aromatics complex...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Aramco-Awards-Contract-to-Axens-for-Jazan-Refinery-and-Aromatics-Complex_37790.html September 26, 2011
South Africa could be the location of the next greenfield site for a TiO2 plant....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/africa/south_africa/Tronox-Acquires-Mineral-Sands-Business-Back-Integrates-to-TiO2-Feedstock_37784.html September 26, 2011
Jacobs Engineering SA (JESA), an equally owned joint venture between Jacobs Engineering and OCP (Casablanca), has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/africa/algeria/OCP-Awards-Fertilizer-Plant-Contracts-to-Jacobs_37783.html September 26, 2011
Sabic says that it is exploring the possibility of joint ventures and investments in the petrochemicals and construction industry with Korean firms. Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/Sabic-Mulls-Joint-Ventures-with-Korea_37782.html September 15, 2011
The feasibility study will consider a 2-million m.t./year and a 4 million m.t./year GTL facility. Capital investment in estimated at $8 billion-$10 billion....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/africa/south_africa/Sasol-Eyes-Integrated-GTL-and-Chemicals-Project-at-Lake-Charles_37568.html September 13, 2011
Tata Chemicals has notified the Bombay Stock Exchange that its joint venture Gabon Fertilizer Co. (GFC) has signed a “pre-construction services agreement” with Technip for...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/africa/Tata-Chemicals-and-Partners-Select-Technip-as-EPC-Contractor-for-Gabon-Fertilizer-Project_37578.html |
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