Petrochemicals
Gulf Energy Information’s Lee Nichols recognized with prestigious G. D. Crain Jr. Award
Lee Nichols, Vice President of Content for Gulf Energy Information of Houston, Texas (U.S.) and London, England has been named the 2025 winner of the prestigious G.D. Crain Jr. Award, the highest recognition for editorial in business-to-business media.
trinamiX and BASF showcase new technologies for polyamide 6 recycling: An approach to circularity in the textile industry
trinamiX showcased its mobile solution for reliable textile identification, including the new handheld spectrometer trinamiX PAL Two, and BASF presents loopamid®, the recycled polyamide 6 based entirely on textile waste
Johnson Matthey to sell Catalyst Technologies business to Honeywell for £1.8 B
Johnson Matthey Plc. is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement to sell its Catalyst Technologies business to Honeywell International Inc. at an enterprise value of £1.8 B on a cash and debt-free basis.
HPCL aims to start crude unit at 9-MMtpy Rajasthan refinery (India) in October
Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. announced that it plans to begin crude processing at its 9-MMtpy Rajasthan (India) refinery in October of this year. The company has also announced that it hopes to start petrochemicals production in January 2026.
Germany's VCI says chemical sector sales grew 1.8% in Q1 of this year
Quarterly sales in Germany's chemical industry grew 1.8% from last year, helped by higher demand and pull-forward effects from U.S. customers stocking up
Asian petrochemical producers chase ethane gains as margins dwindle
Several petrochemical producers in Asia plan to reconfigure their crackers to process more ethane to reduce costs and capitalize on rising U.S. supplies as they face thin margins and global oversupply.
Mitsui Chemicals studying use of ethanol to make petrochemicals
Mitsui Chemicals is studying the use of ethanol as a feedstock in its naphtha crackers to improve competitiveness amid oversupply in the global petrochemical sector
Lotte Chemical to start operating Indonesia cracker in H2 2025
The new cracker which has the capacity to produce 1 MMtpy of ethylene is part of a $3.95 billion project at Cilegon, in Indonesia's Banten province.
hte, Mitsubishi Chemical partner to screen MMA oxidation catalysts
hte signed a contract with Mitsubishi Chemical to provide research services for the screening of MMA oxidation catalysts. The research project included an accelerated aging study, with the aim to qualify a catalyst with extended lifetime properties for the commercial operations.
SP Chemicals plans to raise ethane use at eastern China petchem plant
SP Chemicals is studying plans to increase ethane use as feedstock at its petrochemical complex in eastern China's Jiangsu province to up to 90% from 75%, its CEO Chan Hian Siang said on Thursday.
- Indian Oil buys first Colombian oil under Ecopetrol contract 12/31
- Ukrainian drone attack sparks fire, damages equipment at Tuapse refinery 12/31
- Chile's $2.5-B Volta green ammonia project wins environmental permit 12/31
- China begins issuing second batch of 2026 crude import quotas to refiners 12/31
- EIA: U.S. crude, fuel inventories rose in the week ended December 19 12/30
- Ghana's Tema oil refinery restarts after 9-yr shutdown 12/30
