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Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 09 April 2020

Doosan Vina delivers desalination equipment to Bapco Refinery

The delivered equipment will be responsible for heating and turning seawater into distilled water at the Bapco Refinery in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 08 April 2020

Henkel withdraws 2020 forecast citing coronavirus uncertainty

Impact on business performance in 2020 due to COVID-19 currently not predictable

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 08 April 2020

BP issues force majeure notice to Golar LNG unit on floating facility

The notice is the latest force majeure claim issued in the LNG sector that is struggling with a seasonal plunge in demand as well as the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, which has further hammered the consumption of the super-chilled fuel globally

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 08 April 2020

ExxonMobil reduces 2020 Capex by 30 per cent to $23 billion

The company will reduce 2020 capital spending by 30 percent and lowering cash operating expenses by 15 percent in response to low commodity prices resulting from oversupply and demand weakness from the COVID-19 pandemic

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 08 April 2020

Clariant catalyst improves energy and production efficiency at OCI ammonia plant

The new steam reforming catalyst has significantly reduced pressure drop, allowing the customer to benefit from a considerable increase in energy and production efficiency, leading to savings of more than €300 000 over the catalyst lifetime

Chemical
Chemical | 08 April 2020

BASF to manufacture disinfectants at European sites

The products are being provided free of charge to hospitals, care facilities and other institutions in regions surrounding production plants

Chemical
Chemical | 08 April 2020

Galaxy Surfactants resumes operations

The company is taking necessary preventive measures like social distancing, temperature testing and providing masks to workers etc. to avoid any infection due to COVID-19

Chemical
Chemical | 08 April 2020

Partial opening of Dahej & Vadodara facilities by GACL

The company has started partial operation of Poly Aluminium Chloride (PAC) and Hydrogen Peroxide Plants at Dahej Complex and Chloromethanes and Poly Aluminium Chloride (PAC) Plants at Vadodara Complex after obtaining necessary permission from the concerned industries

Chemical
Chemical | 07 April 2020

Huntsman producing hand sanitizer to aid in COVID-19 response

Company has begun producing hand sanitizer at its manufacturing site in McIntosh, Alabama, for distribution to health care facilities in the United States

Chemical
Chemical | 07 April 2020

Cummins and DuPont partner to supply critical material for N95 respirator masks

The first masks featuring the filter technology are being used as part of a project to supply masks to Minnesota’s M Health Fairview network

Chemical
Chemical | 06 April 2020

IIT Roorkee develops surveillance app to tackle COVID-19

The app can track individuals and can also do geofencing around him. The system will get an alert, if geofencing is violated by the quarantined person. In case GPS data is not received, the location will be obtained automatically through the triangulation of mobile towers

Chemical
Chemical | 06 April 2020

COVID-19 impact on Indian chemicals & petrochemicals

Expecting restrictions in India to be lifted in late Q2 2020, the chemicals & petrochemicals market will start recovering in H2 2020 says KPMG

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 06 April 2020

Petrofac slashes jobs and spending by 20% due to COVID-19

Oilfield services giant to cut personnel and give the rest pay cut of up to 15%

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 06 April 2020

Pradhan speaks to US Energy Secretary on slump in fuel demand due to Covid-19

Since the outbreak of coronavirus, countries across the globe have placed restrictions and announced lockdowns, which have shut businesses and stopped both air as well as road travel. India too announced a 21-day lockdown from March 25 which has led to slump in fuel demand

Chemical
Chemical | 05 April 2020

Partial opening of Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals facilities

Company has started partial operation of Caustic Soda, Hydrochloric Acid (HCl), Phosphoric Acid, Sodium Hypo and Chlorine filling facilities at Dahej Complex and also Caustic Soda and KOH at Vadodara Complex

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 05 April 2020

Emerson and QRI to develop AI-based solutions for oil and gas industry

Technology agreement will offer solutions to optimize reservoir management

Chemical
Chemical | 05 April 2020

Coronavirus probably originated from Wuhan laboratory

According to Chinese researcher Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao coronavirus probably originated from Wuhan Centre for Disease Control & Prevention (WHCDC) and Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chemical
Chemical | 05 April 2020

IIT Delhi invites proposals for supercomputer based coronavirus research

In this, allocation of supercomputer resource to merit based proposals will be made for three months and a total of Rs 1 Cr worth of computational time will be provided to them for free. Each proposal will have a maximum cap of Rs 10 lakh worth of computational resource

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 05 April 2020

MRPL ensures smooth fuel supply during COVID-19 spread

During the period, petrol and diesel are supplied to local depots and oil marketing companies and through pipelines to destinations in Hassan and Bengaluru in millions of litres per day to meet the administrative and transportation needs

Chemical
Chemical | 04 April 2020

UPL contributes Rs. 75 Crore to PM-CARES Fund

The company is also continuously providing large numbers of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) units to help with the safety of India’s frontline heroes in Healthcare and Sanitisation who are relentlessly fighting the battle against Novel Corona Virus

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