http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/pakistan-china-to-sign-mou-on-oil-to-chemicals-complex-in-june/ During Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's visit to Beijing in June, China and Pakistan are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on a crude-to-petrochemical refinery project. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/china-biofuel-makers-bet-on-sustainable-aviation-fuel/ Biofuel firms are pouring more than $1 B into building China's first plants to turn waste cooking oil into aviation fuel for export and meet domestic demand, once Beijing mandates the fuel's use on airplanes to cut emissions. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/ametek-land-provides-thermal-imagers-to-large-ethylene-producer/ AMETEK Land has provided a large U.S. ethylene producer with 28 thermal imagers to provide continuous, highly precise, temperature measurements for optimum process control in its four cracking furnaces. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/chinas-refinery-output-falls-for-first-time-in-20-mos-due-to-maintenance/ China's refinery output fell 3.3% in April from a year earlier, the first annual decline in 20 mos, as large refiners carried out regular maintenance and small independent plants curbed production due to thin profit margins. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/dow-scg-chemicals-sign-mou-to-transform-200-000-tpy-of-plastic-waste-into-circular-products/ Dow and SCG Chemicals have signed of a first-of-its kind memorandum of understanding (MoU) circularity partnership in the Asia-Pacific region to transform 200,000 tpy of plastic waste into circular products by 2030. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/ukraine-long-range-attacks-continue-to-disrupt-russian-refining-energy-operations/ Ukraine attacked a power substation in Russian-occupied Crimea, an oil depot and railway station in Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and an oil refinery in the port town of Tuapse overnight. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/hif-global-selects-johnson-matthey-s-methanol-technology-for-the-largest-e-methanol-plant-in-south-america/ Johnson Matthey has been selected by HIF Global as the methanol licensor for HIF Global’s $4-B Paysandú eFuels project in Uruguay, the largest e-methanol plant in South America. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/basf-expands-its-biomass-balance-portfolio-for-selected-chemical-intermediates/ BASF will expand its biomass balance offering to include BMBCertTM 1,4-butanediol (BDO), tetra-hydrofuran (THF), polytetra¬hydrofuran (PolyTHF®) and 3-(di¬methyl¬amino)pro¬pyl¬amine (DMAPA). http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/ineos-inovyn-launches-next-generation-recycling-pilot-plants-to-strengthen-europe-s-pvc-recycling/ INEOS Inovyn launches two new PVC pilot plants at our Jemeppe-sur-Sambre site in Belgium, to accelerate technologies for recycling PVC which are not mechanically recyclable today. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/how-europe-reduced-its-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-2023/ The European Union's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 5% last year, continuing a trend of declining emissions in Europe.