The company’s new Escorez hydrogenated hydrocarbon resins plant with a capacity of 90,000 tonnes per year will produce hot-melt adhesives and is expected to be the world’s largest whereas, the other 140,000-tonnes-per-year butyl plant is anticipated to produce premium halobutyl rubber.

With natural gas prices down by three-quarters since 2005, cheap raw materials and energy fuel the US reindustrialisation. Market analyst IHS believes that up to € 70 billion will be invested by 2025, doubling North America’s production of basic chemicals and plastics — is America the promised land for the process industry?

Liquids terminaling and logistics provider Moda Midstream has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Oxy Ingleside Energy Center and certain crude oil and LPG infrastructure from Occidental Petroleum Corporation.

More from less — that was the slogan of the More project, whose goal was the definition of real-time indicators for more resource efficiency in the process. But how to monitor the complex production processes of a cracker? The two consortium participants Ineos and S-Pact developed a ready-to-use feed stream analyser based on Raman Spectroscopy. A real success story paid off in cash.

The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg (ifeu) is taking part in the e-For-Fuel research and innovation action. The project wants to provide a sustainable replacement of fossil fuels by using electricity and microorganisms to convert CO2 into renewable fuels.

Dorf Ketal Chemicals India, a Mumbai–based global leader in specialty chemicals, has acquired Filtra Catalysts and Chemicals. Filtra is a leading producer of adsorbents and catalysts for downstream hydrocarbon industries such as oil refineries, petrochemicals and fertilizer plants with headquarters in Thane, India.

Bechtel has signed a license agreement with Assiut Oil Refining Company (Asorc), a subsidiary of Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), for the process design of a delayed coking unit at the Assiut refinery in Egypt.

Exxon Mobil, with partner Fuel Cell Energy, is advancing technology with the aim of improving CCS efficiency, effectiveness, and affordability for large natural gas-fired power plants.

Gea has delivered two centrifuges for monoethylene glycol (Meg) purification at BP’s West Nile Delta offshore natural gas field in Egypt.

Are you too struggling with high project expenses and extended targets? To overcome outdated project approaches and to promote the process industries, Emerson Process Management has dedicated itself to this objective and this also was the central theme of the Global Users Exchange 2016 in Brussels. A keyword that was propagated again and again: “Project Certainty”.