Motiva Enterprises, LLC (Houston; www.motiva.com) and an affiliate of Flint Hills Resources (Wichita, Kan.; www.fhr.com) announced that they have signed an agreement for Motiva to acquire a 100% ownership interest in Flint Hills Resources Port Arthur, LLC. The potential acquisition…
Cemvita Factory Inc. (Houston; www.cemvitafactory.com) and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Houston; www.oxy.com), announced that they have reached an investment agreement. OLCV’s investment will advance the development of new bio-engineered pathways that use…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) has signed an agreement with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL; Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) for licensing its propylene oxide (PO) production technology in connection with the petrochemical project which BPCL is conducting. BPCL is one…
Chevron Lummus Global LLC (CLG), a joint venture between Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (Richmond, Calif.; www.chevron.com) and McDermott, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) announced its selection by Compañía Española de Petróleos (CEPSA) to provide licensed technology for its Algeciras Refinery in Spain. CLG…
Sibur's (Moscow; www.sibur.com) Blagoveshchensk site has held a ceremony to celebrate the completed reconstruction of the terephthalic acid production facility, the only one currently in Russia. The attendees included Pavel Sorokin, Deputy Minister of Energy, Radiy Khabirov, Acting Head of the…
Honeywell says that Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co., Ltd. is using Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology to produce 450,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of polymer-grade propylene for a new petrochemicals complex in China. This is the second C3 Oleflex unit…
Today, Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) announced the successful startup of its Catofin catalyst at Hengli Group’s new mixed-feed dehydrogenation plant in Dalian, China. The new unit combines propane dehydrogenation (PDH) with iso-butane dehydrogenation (BDH) process technologies, and it will produce…
DOMO Chemicals (Ghent, Belgium; www.domochemicals.com) and Solvay (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) have signed today an agreement for DOMO to acquire Solvay’s Performance Polyamides Business in Europe. This includes Engineering Plastics operations in France and Poland; High-Performance Fibers in France; Polymer and…
Wison Engineering Services Co. Ltd. announced that on August 11, Nanjing Chengzhi Yongqing Energy Technology Co., Ltd.'s new butene-to-butadiene plant, built by Wison Engineering, started up successfully and produced on-spec butadiene. The plant was deployed with Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Butene-to-Butadiene…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; www.tu-berlin.de) have signed an agreement to cooperate closely in the area of machine learning. The aim of the collaboration, Berlin-based Joint Lab for Machine Learning (BASLEARN), is to develop…