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Russian president attends Sibur's commissioning of TPE unit at Voronezh
Vladimir Putin at Voronezh. Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the commissioning ceremony of Sibur’s styrene butadiene styrene thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) unit at Voronezh on Thursday. The 50,000 m.t./year unit is based on technology licensed...

Rosneft and Mitsui sign MOU to develop Russian petchem site
Rosneft (Moscow) and Mitsui & Co. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop jointly Rosneft’s previously announced Far East Petrochemical Co. (Fepco) project near Nakhodka, in Russia’s far east. The world-scale petrochemical complex, in its first stage, will be able to process 3.4 million m.t./year of feedstock, predominantly naphtha....

Orica and PhosAgro sign 10-year mining services supply contract
Orica (Melbourne) says it has signed a 10-year contract with Apatit (Kirovsk, Russia), a subsidiary of fertilizer company PhosAgro (Moscow), to supply explosives and blasting services to Apatit’s mining facilities at Kirovsk situated in the Murmansk...

Air Products helium deal
Air Products has signed an agreement with Gazprom (Moscow) that confirms Air Products’ plans to purchase Gazprom-supplied helium. Gazprom says it is developing natural gas resources in eastern Siberia and plans to start large-scale helium production...

SNF to build acrylamide facility in Russia
Lukoil (Moscow) says that SNF (Andrézieux, France) has agreed on a project to produce acrylamide and polyacrylamide at the production site of Lukoil’s petrochemical subsidiary, Saratovorgsintez (Saratov, Russia). SNF will implement the project in...

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