Dow to pioneer Argentina first shale gas pilot project The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) from USA and the Argentina national oil company YPF signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop shale gas in the giant deposit of the Vaca Muerta in the eastern Province of Neuquen. For Dow, (more…)
Read moreTechnip 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…)
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03
Jan
2013
One Day – One Country: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia Key Projects and Business Highlights More than any other country, Saudi Arabia initiated in 2012 one of the most versatile program of investment for projects of the oil and gas and petrochemicals industry from offshore upstream to high performances chemicals. Following the discoveries in the Egyptian side of (more…)
Read moreSabic to expand petrochemical capacities in USA The Ryadh-based Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic), may join BASF, ChevronPhillips, Dow Chemical (Dow), Enterprise Products Partners (Enterprise), ExxonMobil, Evonik, Occidental Petroleum, Sasol, Shell, to increase its petrochemical foot print in USA to benefit from the low costs feedstock provided by the shale (more…)
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06
Nov
2012
Dow Chemical awards Freeport Ethylene to Technip
Technip signs FEED contract for Dow Texas Operations October 2012, The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) selected Technip from France for the front end engineering and design (FEED) of its world scale ethylene project on the Gulf Coast, Texas, USA. Dow is the world largest manufacturer of olefin and polyolefin products. Based on ethylene cracking, the (more…)
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12
Oct
2012
The Dow Chemicals in brief
Passionately innovate is more than a mission statement The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) is based in Midland, Michigan, USA, listed in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, New York (DOW), Paris, Switzerland and Tokyo. With approximately 52,000 employees in the world, Dow is pioneering the creation and development of innovative technologies and solutions (more…)
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20
Jul
2012
Total and Saudi Aramco work on Satorp Expansion
Saudi Aramco and Total to go for Aromatics in phase 2 While the joint venture Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (Satorp) is completing the construction of the refinery as the first phase of the project to come on stream in 2013, Total and Saudi Aramco are already working on the (more…)
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