Sumitomo, PTT Global Chemical Public Company and Kuraray have been jointly conducting a detailed feasibility study on the production and sale of butadiene derivatives in Thailand. The partners recently concluded a joint venture agreement.

Exxon Mobil announced a growth strategy to more than double earnings and cash flow from operations by 2025 at today’s oil prices. Growth plans include steps to increase earnings by more than 100 % — to $ 31 billion by 2025 at 2017 prices — from last year’s adjusted profit of $ 15 billion, which excluded the impact of US tax reform and impairments.

Tareq Kawash has been appointed as Senior Vice President for Mc Dermott International’s Europe, Middle East and Africa region. He has 30 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry with domestic and international assignments for oil and gas projects.

Manufacturing advancements underpin enhanced sizing flexibility for Auma’s part-turn GS gearboxes. Three duty classes, (1, 2 and 3), have been introduced to support all anticipated operations across predicted valve lifetimes.

On July 13, a major explosion at the Visakha Solvents plant in Ramky’s Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma City in India left six factory workers with burn injuries. The cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained.

China’s Shenghong Refining Petrochemical Co. has selected KBR to supply proprietary catalyst for its 300 KTA Vinyl Acetate Monomer project in China. Vinyl Acetate Monomer is a vital intermediate used for the production of polymers and resins.

Lanxess has developed a new normalisation software for analysing reverse osmosis. Performem automatically imports system data from templates in standard process control systems and quickly normalises even large volumes of data.

CAC has been awarded a contract by Neolyse Ibbenbüren – a production joint venture of Evonik and Akzo Nobel – for the performance of EPCM services as general contractor for a new membrane electrolysis to be constructed at the Akzo Nobel site in Ibbenbüren, Germany.

More and more customers from the food sector, as well as the packaging and chemical industry want to fill up liquids not only from drums or containers but fill or dose them precisely in small vessels...

BASF has launched a proprietary new Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) additive designed for butylene selectivity in refineries. The product called Evolve improves butylene yields while preserving unit conversion and valuable fuels yields when compared to existing technologies, the company claims.