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Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 29 June 2020

Indian Oil planning Rs. 2,282 Cr R&D campus

The research infrastructure at the new campus includes laboratories and pilot plants in the domains of alternative & renewable energy, e.g., fuel cell, hydrogen, gasification & solar energy research, semi-commercial nano-material production unit, scale-up/pilot plants in petrochemicals, catalysts, biotechnology, etc.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 29 June 2020

Peter Greven ropes in Solenis as its distributor for oleochemical additives

Solenis will be the authorized distributor for Peter Greven's calcium stearate dispersions for paper coating applications in the European Union, the United Kingdom and Russia.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 29 June 2020

BP to sell its petrochemicals business to INEOS for $5 billion

The sale will also include related interests such as the chemical recycling technology bp Infinia and bp’s interest in acetylated wood developer Tricoya.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 26 June 2020

Indian Oil gives go ahead to wind up AROCHEM

The project could not take-off due to various issues between the promoters.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 25 June 2020

Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurates Indian Oil's PADC

The Technical centre is equipped with 50 latest sophisticated polymer testing and processing equipment to cater to the needs of customers and new investors.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 25 June 2020

BASF partners with Zhengming to develop PU insulation panels

Close cooperation with a cold storage owner to develop PU insulation panels

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 25 June 2020

Invista's Victoria ADN retrofit project on schedule for 2021 completion

The company anticipates that all pre-turnaround construction will be completed later this year, and the final tie-ins are to be installed during a regularly scheduled maintenance outage in early 2021 with additional ADN coming online at that time.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 25 June 2020

Working to complete contours of Reliance-Aramco JV says Ambani

The partnership with Aramco would give Jamnagar refineries "access to a wide portfolio of value-accretive crude grades and enhanced feedstock security for a higher oil-to-chemicals conversion.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 25 June 2020

Braskem completes construction of La Porte Polyproplyene plant

New facility has a designed production capacity of over 450,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr).

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 24 June 2020

Axens to supply hydrogenation catalysts for petchem project in China

Axens will supply catalysts for the MAPD (methylacetylene and propadiene) and phenylacetylene hydrogenation units as well as the catalysts for the Pygas first and second stage units.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 24 June 2020

Chroma Color acquires Epolin Chemicals

The acquisition will contribute significantly to Chroma Color’s leadership in the colorants and additives industry

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 24 June 2020

Asian Paints annual earning grows despite a weak last quarter

Sales rose 5.05% to Rs 20211.25 crore as against Rs 19240.13 crore in 2019.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 24 June 2020

Solvay announces £1.5 billion impairment charge amid low sales

Sales down by 20% across April and May with similar demand trend seen for June as well.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 24 June 2020

Johnson Matthey announces successful commissioning of largest methanol plant in China

The JM designed methanol production plant takes syngas as a feed and combines advanced JM catalysts to produce stabilized methanol as a product, which is used to produce olefins in a downstream unit.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 23 June 2020

Hitachi Chemical changes to Showa Denko Materials

The name change represents Hitachi Chemical's determination of opening its new chapter as a consolidated subsidiary of SDK.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 23 June 2020

China and India to lead global polypropylene capacity additions

Polypropylene capacity in Asia is expected to increase from 47.25 million tpy in 2019 to 78.04 million tpy in 2024, at an average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 10%.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 23 June 2020

BP invests $5 million in geospatial analytics company Satelytics

Use of the technology has the potential to be part of bp’s aim to install methane measurement at all major oil and gas processing sites by 2023, publish the data and then drive a 50% reduction in methane intensity of its operations.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 22 June 2020

Indian Oil to use spheripol technology for its Panipat PP plant

The process technology will be used for a 450 KTA polypropylene plant to be built in Panipat, Haryana State, India.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 22 June 2020

Oil and gas industry needs to explore new technologies and strategic partnerships

Operators need to have forward-looking transparency into vendor financial health to mitigate supplier distress

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 19 June 2020

DSM issues €1 billion bonds to finance Erber Group acquisition

The bonds come in two parts of €500 million each.

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