Keyword: feedstock

Strategy & Management

Hard Times for Bio-based Products

03.04.2018 - Petroleum is a limited resource and if we keep using it global warming will accelerate. Since this realization has filtered in the quest for alternatives has begun. Shale gas and...

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Sipchem Mulls US Shale-based Projects

01.02.2018 - Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) is considering investing in shale-based projects in the US, CEO Amad Al Ohali said in an interview with Bloomberg news agency...

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Ineos to Build Europe’s Largest River Barges

15.12.2017 - After recently commissioning the world’s largest ethane carrier, Ineos has taken an industry lead once more with plans to build the biggest butane river barges ever used in Europe...

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Pipeline Crack Curbs UK Feedstock Supply

13.12.2017 - Forties Pipeline, which pipes oil and gas from the UK’s North Sea oil and gas fields to onshore energy providers and the mammoth Ineos complex at Grangemouth, Scotland, could be...

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Asahi Develops CO2 Route to Diphenyl Carbonate

03.10.2017 - Japan’s Asahi Kasei has developed a new and safer route to produce diphenyl carbonate (DPC), using carbon dioxide (CO2) as a feedstock instead of phosgene, which is highly toxic...

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Ineos to Build new European VAM Plant

12.09.2017 - Leveraging its expanded position in ethylene, Ineos Oxide has announced it will build a new plant for vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) at one of its European production sites. The...

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Siam Cement Approves Vietnam Petchems Project

16.07.2017 - Vina SCG Chemicals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Thai conglomerate Siam Cement Group (SCG), has taken a final investment decision to proceed with construction of its long-delayed...

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Total Revamps Antwerp Cracker to use Ethane

11.07.2017 - As part of the first phase of a project to upgrade its refining and chemicals platform in Antwerp, Belgium, French energy and petrochemicals group Total has started up a new...