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March 19, 2013
LyondellBasell Industries announced plans last week to add 800 million lbs/year of ethylene capacity at its Corpus Christi, TX, site by late 2015 as part of a capital spending ramp-up...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/LyondellBasell-boosts-US-ethylene-PE-expansion-plans_50545.html March 19, 2013
Lubrizol says it will invest more than $400 million over the next 4 years to expand chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) resin and compounding manufacturing capacity globally. Each...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Lubrizol-to-invest-$400-million-to-expand-chlorinated-PVC_50544.html March 19, 2013
Rinchem (Albuquerque, NM) has recently opened a new 65,000-sq ft chemical logistics facility in Hollister, CA, the company says. The new facility includes warehousing areas for...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Rinchem-logistics-plant_50543.html March 19, 2013
Air Liquide says it is building a new carbon dioxide (CO2) liquefaction plant in Tulare County, CA. The 450-m.t./day facility will capture CO2 gases from Calgren Renewable Fuel’s...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Air-Liquide-builds-CO2-plant-expands-CA-production_50538.html March 19, 2013
Saudi Chevron Phillips (SCP) resumed operations at its complex at Al Jubail on 9 March following scheduled maintenance. The complex produces benzene, cyclohexane, and motor gasoline...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Saudi-Chevron-Phillips-begins-restart-at-Al-Jubail_50529.html March 19, 2013
Vale informed the Argentinean government that it is suspending work on a potash project at Rio Colorado, Argentina, according to brief statement issued on 11 March. Vale says that the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Soaring-costs-cause-Vale-to-halt-Argentinean-potash-project_50516.html March 19, 2013
The Sri Lankan government has authorized Peak Energy (Singapore) to build a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) manufacturing plant in the port city of Hambantota, Sri Lanka, under the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Sri-Lanka-gives-green-light-to-Singapore-firm-for-PET-project_50465.html March 19, 2013
Lukoil (Moscow) says is is installing a vacuum gasoil (VGO) deep conversion unit at its Volgograd, Russia, refinery and has awarded the more than $1.4-billion turnkey contract to...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Lukoil-launches-Volgograd-refinery-upgrade-project_50464.html March 19, 2013
Linde will build six large air separation units (ASUs) for Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group and Shenhua Logistics Group at Yinchuan, in the Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia, in...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Linde-to-build-six-air-separation-units-in-China_50463.html March 19, 2013
SK Gas (Seoul), South Korea’s largest importer and distributor of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), has signed a deal with Lummus Technology to use Lummus’s Catofin process in...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/SK-Gas-selects-Lummus-Catofin-technology-for-PDH-plant-in-Korea_50462.html March 19, 2013
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (Beijing) has approved a $4.3-billion investment in a refinery and aromatics complex by Zhejiang Hengyi at Pulau Muara Besar...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/China-approves-Hengyis-refinery-and-aromatics-investment-in-Brunei_50461.html March 19, 2013
Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) is seeing tightening in the polyurethane (PU) and polycarbonate (PC) markets, a situation that should ease with the company’s investment plans. Patrick Thomas, CEO of BMS, on the sidelines of Bayer’s results briefing in Leverkusen late last month said that last year’s toluene diisocyanate (TDI) growth rates were more than 6%....http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Bayer-expands-PC-and-PU-production-as-markets-tighten_50458.html March 19, 2013
Albemarle’s joint venture with Arab Potash Co. (Amman, Jordan), Jordan Bromine Co. (JBC; Safi, Jordan), announced that it has successfully commissioned the first phase of expansion project at its Safi site. The expansion project, which doubled the site’s bromine production capacity to 100,000 m.t./year, was first announced in March 2011....http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Albemarle-joint-venture-completes-first-phase-of-Jordan-bromine-expansion_50524.html March 19, 2013
UOP, a Honeywell subsidiary, says it has been selected by Fujian Meide Petrochemical to provide technology to produce propylene in China. Fujian Meide will use the UOP C3 Oleflex...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/UOP-selected-to-provide-technology-for-propylene-project-in-China_50620.html March 19, 2013
The Mosaic Co. has entered into a heads of agreement with the Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Ma'aden) and Sabic under which the companies intend to establish a joint venture to develop...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Maaden-Mosaic-and-Sabic-sign-agreement-for-$7-billion-phosphate-complex-in-Saudi-Arabia_50619.html March 19, 2013
Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE; Mumbai) has won a contract to provide project management at Dangote Group's (Lagos) planned $1.9-billion fertilizer plant at Edo, Nigeria, TCE...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Tata-Consulting-Engineers-to-project-manage-fertilizer-complex-in-Nigeria_50615.html March 19, 2013
Toyo Engineering (Narashino, Japan) says that it has been awarded a contract by Noltex (La Porte, TX), a subsidiary of Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry Co. (Nippon Gohsei; Osaka), to...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Nippon-Gohsei-expands-EVOH-capacity-in-US-Toyo-Engineering-awarded-contract_50608.html March 19, 2013
Idemitsu Kosan and Mitsui & Co. have signed an agreement to commence studies to produce linear alpha-olefins in the United States. The partners plan to set up a 50-50 joint...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Idemitsu-Kosan-and-Mitsui-and-Co-plan-alpha-olefins-project-in-the-US-Update_50584.html March 18, 2013
Williams announced it will begin construction on a previously proposed propane dehydrogenation (PDH) facility in Alberta, Canada. The PDH facility will be the first and only in Canada...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Williams-to-proceed-with-Canadian-PDH-facility_50592.html March 18, 2013
Samsung Engineering has signed a contract worth $650 million to build a nitrogen fertilizer complex for the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (Socar; Baku). The contract, Samsung’s...http://www.chemweek.com/home/projects/Samsung-Engineering-signs-$650-million-fertilizer-plant-contract-in-Azerbaijan_50580.html |
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