Technip completes FEED on Freeport ethylene cracker To optimize the competitive advantage of the US glut of shale gas, the Dow Chemical Company (Dow) is planning to increase locally the number and variety of production units downward its chemical value chain. Presented as early as April 2011, the US Gulf (more…)
Read moreOxy to join Chevron, Dow, Exxon and Shell US projects On December 2012, Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem) submitted a permit application to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the construction of a new ethylene cracker at Ingleside in Texas, USA. Based in Los Angeles in California, USA, Occidental Petroleum (more…)
Read moreSasol to prioritize US GTL on Canada GTL project In a press conference in Louisiana, Sasol’s chief executive officer, David Constable, confirmed the decision of the board to move on the front end engineering and design (FEED) stage of the first Gas-To-Liquids (GTL) project to be built in USA. To (more…)
Read moreShell to boost Pulau Bukom ethylene cracker by 20% On November 2012, Shell made the final investment decision (FID) for the debottlenecking of its petrochemical complex in Pulau Bukom, in Bukom Island, Singapore. Identified as Shell Eastern Petrochemical Complex (SEPC) project, Shell started up this petrochemical complex in March 2010. Because of the increasing demand (more…)
Read moreAfter Occidental, Mexichem signed with Pemex In August 2012, Mexichem SAB (Mexichem) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy) through its chemical branch Oxychem to build a new ethylene cracker for the supply of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM). Vinyl Chloride Monomer is the primary feedstock for (more…)
Read moreTotal to convert Antwerp naphtha cracker to ethane Total announced during investor day, that he will spend $1.5 billion capital expenditure to adapt its Antwerp refinery and petrochemical complex to the market conditions. With a capacity of 350,000 b/d, Antwerp is the second largest refinery in Europe and the largest (more…)
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Jul
2012
Mixed cracker
Definition Mixed cracker refers to cracker in the refining process which can treat equally ethane or naphtha Comments The cracker is a master piece of the refining process to produce gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and all the building blocks of the petrochemical industry (ethylene, propylene, butadiene and all their respective derivatives) To (more…)
Read moreDow and Saudi Aramco $20 billion Sadara takes shape Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara) is a joint venture between The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). Once complete, Sadara petrochemical complex will be one of the world’s largest integrated chemical complex and the largest ever built in (more…)
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Jun
2012
Fertilizer
Definition Fertilizer is any natural or manufactured plant nutrient that contains at least 5% of one or more of the three primary nutrients – nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), or potassium (K) Industrially manufactured fertilizers are sometimes referred to as mineral fertilizers. Comments There are several sources of fertilizers. The two (more…)
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