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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

Chemical
Chemical | 04 April 2020

Indian Potash donates Rs. 5 Cr to PM-CARES

Many other PSUs of fertilizers department like IFFCO, KRIBHCO and NFL-KISAN have also contributed more than Rs. 27 crores to PM-CARES fund

Chemical
Chemical | 04 April 2020

Sanjay Dhotre launches COVID-19 hackathon

The hackathon is part of a global initiative and is being organised by Hack A Cause – India and FICCI Ladies Organization Pune and supported by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India

Chemical
Chemical | 04 April 2020

Govt. launches coronavirus app AarogyaSetu

AarogyaSetu will enable people to assess themselves the risk of catching coronavirus infection based on their interaction with others, using bluetooth, algorithms and AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 04 April 2020

Coronavirus outbreak to hamper oil and gas projects in emerging economies

Due to COVID-19 outbreak, several ongoing projects across the industry will likely be impacted, which could potentially put further stress on the global economy, according to GlobalData

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 04 April 2020

Shenghong Petrochemical to use Honeywell technology for new complex in China

Honeywell UOP announced that Shenghong Petrochemical Group will use five Honeywell UOP Polybed pressure swing adsorption (PSA) units to supply high-purity hydrogen for a new refinery complex in Lianyuangang, Jiangsu Province in China

Chemical
Chemical | 03 April 2020

ExxonMobil joins Global Center to expedite PPE production

The move help in rapid design and deployment of reusable personal protection equipment for health care workers

Chemical
Chemical | 03 April 2020

ExxonMobil joins Global Center to expedite PPE production

The move help in rapid design and deployment of reusable personal protection equipment for health care workers

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 03 April 2020

ONGC to lose Rs 4,000 cr due to gas price cut

Prices of natural gas was from April 1 cut to USD 2.39 per unit - a rate about 37 per cent lower than the cost of production

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 03 April 2020

B&W SPIG to supply cooling towers for BASF's petrochem plant in Belgium

SPIG S.p.A.has been awarded a contract for more than $3 million by BASF Antwerp NV to design and supply two cooling towers a plant in Belgium

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