Dow Chemical announced the completion of the construction phase of its new, world-scale ethylene production facility in Freeport, Texas.

Fluor has finished the mechanical construction of The Dow Chemical Company’s new ethylene production facility in Freeport, Texas on schedule.

The Dow Chemical Company announced that the Company’s comprehensive plan to further connect its U.S. operations with cost-advantaged feedstocks from increasing supplies of U.S. shale gas is moving forward, and remains on-track to deliver long-term competitive advantage for many of Dow’s downstream businesses.

China is looking to eliminate its dependency on imported oil and utilize its domestic coal resources. PROCESS conducted an in-depth investigation to find out who stands to gain from the coal-to-chemical projects.

Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, a division of Exxon Mobil Corporation, announced that it is expanding the capacity of its global hydrocarbon fluid assets by more than 250,000 tons per year at its world-scale petrochemical sites in Antwerp, Belgium; Baytown, Texas; and Jurong Island, Singapore.

One man's meat is another mans poison – The US' love affair with shale gas takes its toll on the country's butadiene industry, a new study shows. The country might well be caught up in the dependency of butadiene imports from foreign producers.

Maire Tecnimont has formed and incorporated Vinxia Engineering in the Czech Republic in order to reinforce their revamping segment.

Neste Jacobs and Coolbrook in collaboration with University of Oxford’s Osney Thermo Fluids laboratory, University of Cambridge’s Whittle laboratory, and major chemical producers are developing a new process based on hydrocarbon cracking method, where ethylene, the core raw material for polyethylene is produced.

Samsung will build a new petrochemical fertilizer plant in Bolivia: The Korean company outpaced its international competitors and won a turn-key contract by YPFB of Bolivia for a three–digit million sum.

The scale of US shale gas reserves is conjuring up scenarios that seemed unimaginable just a short time ago. Ammonia plants and crackers are now under construction in a country where the chemical industry appeared to be in terminal decline. Gold fever is currently gripping the plant engineering industry, and everyone wants to be first in line...