Rosneft and Mitsui signed MOU for Nakhodka complex During the visit of Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe to Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 29th, 2013, the Russian oil and gas and petrochemical giant OJSC NK ROSNEFT (Rosneft) and the Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co., Ltd (Mitsui) inked a memorandum (more…)
Read moreRiCoal selected Rostov for its Petrochemical complex The Russian joint venture RiCoal Chemical Coal Plant (RiCoal) is planning to build a world-scale Coal-to-Olefin and petrochemical complex in Rostov-on-Don in the south of Russia. Estimated to require $2.5 billion capital expenditure, RiCoal selected Rostov-on-Don location because of available coal and natural gas (more…)
Read moreM&G to invest $1 billion in PET and PTA plants in USA The Italian company Mossi & Ghisolfi Gruppo (M&G Group) made the final investment decision (FID) for to build a greenfield polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants in Corpus Christi in Texas, USA. M&G Group is a (more…)
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17
Dec
2012
Lanxess in brief
Energizing Chemistry Lanxess AG (Lanxess) is a young company founded in 2005 with 150 years of history in the chemical industry as the result of Bayer strategic spin off of plastics and synthetic rubber assets. Still home-based with Bayer in Leverkusen, Germany, will relocate headquarters next door in Cologne, in (more…)
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10
Dec
2012
Air Liquide and Lurgi in brief
The world leader in gases for industry Air Liquide was founded in France in 1902 from two scientists and inventors who got the idea to liquefied air to separate the gases and produce oxygen. Today, Air Liquide is operating in 80 countries with 46,200 employees but still focusing on the (more…)
Read moreSolvay and Sibur to produce oil field process chemicals The Russian petrochemical company SIBUR and the Belgium chemical group Solvay signed Heads of agreement in London to produce jointly surfactants and oil field process chemicals. According to the agreement, SIBUR and Solvay Novecare will create a 50/50 joint venture called RusPAV. (more…)
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28
Aug
2012
Isononanol
Definition Isononanol (INA) is the common name of Isononyl alcohol and is an isomer of the C9 family. Isononanol should formally be writen Iso-Nonanol Isononanol may also be called Oxo-alcohol Comments Isononanol appears as a clear, colorless, flammable liquid without visible impurities. Isononanol may be recognized by its specific odor but should (more…)
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26
Jul
2012
Umbilical
Definition Umbilical refers in the oil and gas industry to the connections used offshore between the subsea equipment and platforms or floating production units and enabling the control from the surface. The umbilicals are made of steel or thermoplastic to be flexible and in the same time to resist to operating conditions. (more…)
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