Petrochemicals

Photo from Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
ANPZ LLP’s 5.5-million tpy Atyrau refinery.
Petrochemicals

KMG, Sinopec enter FEED for proposed Atyrau PTA-PET plant

Aug. 22, 2024
KazMunayGas and Sinopec are progressing plans for development of a plant aimed at production of polyethylene terephthalic acid and polyethylene terephthalate in Kazakhstan’s western...
Dow Inc.
Dow Fort Saskatchewan Path2Zero
Petrochemicals

Dow lets contracts for proposed Alberta net-zero petrochemicals complex

Dec. 8, 2023
Dow Inc. has let two contracts to Fluor Corp. to deliver construction-related services for Dow Canada's petrochemicals manufacturing site under development just north of Fort ...
Photo from ONGC Petro additions Ltd.
Petrochemicals

ONGC proposes two grassroots petrochemical complexes for India

Nov. 16, 2023
Oil and Natural Gas Corp. approved an investment of more than $1 billion to build new petrochemical complexes in India.
Petrochemicals

QatarEnergy secures $4.4 billion financing for Ras Laffan petrochemicals project

Oct. 10, 2023
QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC secured $4.4 billion financing for the Ras Laffan petrochemicals project, a world scale integrated polymers complex in Ras Laffan...
Photo from OMV AG.
Baystar Bay 3 PE plant in Pasadena, Tex.
Petrochemicals

TotalEnergies-OMV JV starts up long-planned Texas petrochemicals unit

Oct. 3, 2023
Bayport Polymers LLC (Baystar)—a 50-50 joint venture of OMV AG subsidiary Borealis AG and TotalEnergies SE—has commissioned a new polyethylene unit to more than double production...
Map from Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd.
Location of Yanbu Saudi Arabia project.
Petrochemicals

Alujain lets contract for new petrochemical project at Yanbu

Sept. 28, 2023
Alujain National Industrial let a contract to Samsung Engineering to provide front-end engineering and design for new units to be installed as part of integrated propane dehydrogenation...