Sasol has been granted licenses in two on- and offshore fields in Mozambique, which the company will devlop in a partnership with the country’s state oil company Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH).

Keeping NGL (Natural Gas Liquid) pipeline components operating in optimal condition is an ongoing challenge for the oil and gas industry. Rising temperatures in the liquid pumps and the resulting issues for their seals represent one such challenge.Learn how you can profit from dry gas seals.

The world’s leading event for the plastics industry projects the image of an industry in upheaval. Demand remains strong for lightweight materials and composites, but new competitors are putting chemical companies under pressure. Hopes are pinned on customer-specific solutions and alternative raw materials to provide a breakthrough.

The Bhopal disaster, in which hundreds of thousands of people were unknowingly affected by a gas leak outside the factory premises, has become a learning lesson. Chemical and petrochemical industries today have become more conscious about keeping a process safety system in place.

Clariant has opened a new masterbatch production site in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia — a city on the Red Sea which is home to many of Saudi Arabia's leading industries including petrochemicals, hydrocarbon and minerals.

Bechtel will supply coker technology for the Rijeka refinery in Urinj, Croatia. Site operator INA Industrija Nafte will use Bechtel’s Thru Plus coking technology, a proprietary process for upgrading heavy oil into high-value, light hydrocarbon liquids, for its new delayed coking unit complex.

An insight into the demand-supply gap within India’s petroleum industry – The Indian petroleum industry comprises of both the upstream sector, which involves oil exploration and production, and the downstream sector, which includes oil refining. However, the industry is marked by an imbalance between the two sectors in respect of the crude oil required by the downstream and that supplied by the upstream.

Researchers at Osaka University have developed a new catalytic system for efficiently splitting water and making hydrogen with energy from normal sunlight. Their study was recently reported in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Water, Pharmaceuticals and polymers are pushing the demand for chlorine. Especially output in Europe grew considerably, despite the end of mercury based production in December.

Engineers responsible for oil/gas production at remote field sites that lack easy access to electric power will find constant power technology thermal mass flow meters from Fluid Components International (FCI) can provide a solution to their gas flow metering needs.