Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) has successfully completed the acquisition of Perstorp. With this deal, PCG aims to strengthen its specialty chemicals business and also intends to accelerate the growth of Perstorp by focusing on its growth projects.

It sounds like the famous squaring of the circle: high-capacity OSD production in a limited space, with the integration of one of the largest granulation lines in the Middle East added to the mix. Below, we give insights into a project of superlatives.

Worley has secured a project management services contract for Vertex Hydrogen’s low-carbon hydrogen plant at Stanlow Manufacturing Complex in Ellesmere Port, UK. The scope of work incudes the inside battery limit of the plant, as well as outside battery limit works. It will support in creating the infrastructure needed to connect to feedstocks, products, and modifications within the refinery.

Saudi Aramco and Sabic AN have been awarded the world’s first TÜV certificate of accreditation for blue hydrogen, ammonia products. This move marks a significant milestone in the development of ‘blue’ hydrogen and ammonia businesses.

Nouryon’s Lumatreat tagged polymer products have been granted a US patent and the innovative solution assists customers to measure the available deposit-control agents in water treatment systems and reduce polymer and water usage during treatment.

With the addition of Linde’s new ASU, the Wanhua Chemical Group has completed a major expansion project at its integrated chemical site and production center at the Yantai Chemical Industrial Park in China. The ASU will provide industrial gases to the company in order to manufacture isocyanate.

Under the terms of the agreement, BP will sell its 50 % stake in the BP-Husky Toledo Refinery in Ohio to its joint venture partner Cenovus Energy for 300 million dollars. BP and Canada-based firm Cenovus are also expected to enter into a multi-year product supply agreement.

Six key take aways from Parenteral Drug Association’s (PDA) recent workshop have been summarized by the author. The association intends to host a number of workshops to educate and help the industry implement the revision of the new Annex 1: ‘Manufacture of Sterile Products’.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of July 2022’ from all over the world. Right from Lonza developing a large-scale fill & finish facility for commercial drug products to Shell building Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

On a recent visit to evaluate several level transmitters on chemical storage applications at a new combined cycle power plant, Magnetrol-Ametek had the opportunity to work with the EPC firm, plant personnel and the chemical supplier. This provided an interesting look at the level instrumentation package for the chemical storage side of things from an engineering perspective, as well as from a daily operations point of view.