Lummus has confirmed CW's recent report that the company has been selected by Ibn Rushd, a Sabic affiliate, to provide technology and basic engineering for a propane... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14713.html
Oiltanking Odfjell Terminals & Co. (OOTO) has started operations at a recently completed tank storage terminal at Sohar, Oman. OOTO commissioned 322,000 cu meters of tank storage... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14558.html
Borealis and its Borouge (Abu Dhabi) joint venture are making progress on previously announced plans to establish two large-scale petrochemical complexes in Abu Dhabi. The companies... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14463.html
Sabic beat out Bayer for the number 10 slot in this year’s Billion-Dollar Club, with 2007 revenues of SR126.2 billion ($33.6 billion). Sabic moved up one notch in the ranking due... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14472.html
Unspecified technical hitches may delay until the first quarter of 2009 the start up of some units at Petro Rabigh, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical. The... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14327.html
Qatar Petroleum (QP) has shelved a $500-million expansion of the common seawater cooling system at the Ras Laffan, Qatar gas and petrochemical complex, according to a report in the... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14328.html
An unprecedented run-up in feedstock and energy costs coupled with a worsening global economic slowdown, has dogged the European petrochemical industry in what should have been its... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14332.html
Iran's petroleum minister Gholam Hossein Nozari has appointed Adel Nejadsalim as the new managing director of the National Petrochemical Co., local reports say... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14366.html
Some unspecified technical issues may lead to delay of start-up at some units at Petro Rabigh, the joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical, to first-quarter of 2009... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14221.html
Saudi Ethylene and Polyethylene Co., a joint venture among LyondellBasell, Sahara Petrochemical, and Tasnee Petrochemicals, has started up a 1-million m.t./year ethylene plant at Al... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14019.html
Ciba Specialty Chemicals has signed an agreement to form a joint venture with masterbatch producer Astra Polymers (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia) to sell customer-specific antioxidant blends... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14033.html
LyondellBasell has confirmed CW’s exclusive report that its polyolefin technologies have been selected for three plants to be built by Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries (KPI... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14041.html
Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co. (GPIC; Manama, Bahrain) says it has awarded contracts to Tecnimont and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build a carbon dioxide (CO2) recycling plant at... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/14044.html
Ciba Specialty Chemicals has signed an agreement to form a joint venture with Astra Polymers to produce and sell customer-specific antioxidant blends to customers in the Mideast. The... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/middle_east/13925.html
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