The world of petrochemicals is approaching a critical moment in its history. A long-anticipated cyclical downturn, caused by a build up of new supply in the Middle East and Asia, is...
Sumitomo Chemical has slashed its net profits forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009 from Y55 billion, to Y15 billion. Sumitomo also cut its net earnings projection for...
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...
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...
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...
The Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) has broadened its scope and efforts over the past few months. GPCA, as previously announced, has formed a Plastics Committee...
Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the fifth edition of Insight, our quarterly newsletter providing information about GPCA’s activities, and covering the major issues facing the...
Q. How satisfied are you with the progress that GPCA has made as an industry asso¬ciation since its formation almost two and a half years ago? A. I am satisfied to some extent given...
Polypropylene (PP) capacity has been slow to develop in the Gulf region with producers ini¬tially focused on transforming stranded flared gas into polyethylene and ethylene glycol for...
The Safety, Health, and Environment Com¬mittee of GPCA organized its third REACH awareness workshop on August 27 in Dubai, to help familiarize delegates with the European Union’s...
The Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Di¬rectory, published by GPCA, lists more than 1,600 companies in the Gulf region that pro¬duce, use, and handle chemicals. These prod¬ucts...
The specialty chemical sector has become fashionable again. Specialties have in recent years been largely the domain of pure-play companies, but the sector has started to at¬tract...
Welcome New Members* *Companies that have joined GPCA since March 2008 United Arab Emirates Evonik Degussa Gulf FZE Contact: Lars Bechler - Katayoun Zafari www.evonik.com MPB...
Borealis, one of Europe’s leading producers of polyolefins, is targeting a place among the top global chemical players under a strategy, dubbed 2020 Vision, which includes a...
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...
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...
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...
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