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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06
Nov
2012
Dow Chemical awards Freeport Ethylene to Technip
09
Aug
2012
“IPP”
Definition IPP is the acronym of Independent Power Project. IPP may also be used for Independent power Producer. In both cases IPP refers to non-public utility company investing or operating power generation facilities. Comments Until the years 1980s, the power generation facilities were mostly run by public entities in each country (more…)
Read moreQatar Petroleum holds 10% of $3 billion Arzew project Since Total and Sonatrach had announced the giant Arzew petrochemical complex, the project had to be put on hold by the lack of ethane as feedstock to supply the cracker. This ethane should come from the Hassi R’meil natural gas fields, (more…)
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20
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 moreFrom Shale gas to Polyolefins ExxonMobil implements its integrated business model The Houston based Exxon Mobil Corp. is considering a multi-billion-dollar expansion of its giant petrochemical complex in Baytown, Texas, USA. ExxonMobil, like Chevron, Dow Chemicals or Shell, is looking to take advantage of a surplus of natural gas that’s pushed (more…)
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03
Apr
2012
Propylene
Definition: ”Propylene” is the common name given to the Propene. It is a gas, not to be confused with the Propane. Propylene may also be called Methylethylene. Comments: From process perspective, the Propylene is a byproduct as produced in parallel of the Ethylene during the cracking operations in the steam cracker as (more…)
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