http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing 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/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. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/mol-inaugurated-its-13-b-200-000-tpy-polyol-complex-in-tiszaújváros-hungary/ MOL inaugurated its €1.3-B, 200,000-tpy polyol complex in Tiszaújváros, Hungary. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/nextchem-completes-acquisition-of-gascontec-adding-new-low-carbon-hydrogenmethanol-to-portfolio/ Nextchem completed the acquisition of GasConTec, which will add new low-carbon hydrogen/methanol technologies to the company's portfolio. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/verbio-breaks-ground-to-manufacture-bio-based-specialty-chemicals/ Verbio has begun construction of the world’s first large-scale ethenolysis plant using rapeseed oil methyl ester at its Bitterfeld, Germany location. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/fertighy-selects-northern-france-for-first-low-carbon-fertilizer-plant/ FertigHy, a pan-European producer of low-carbon, nitrogen-based fertilizer for the agricultural sector, will build its first factory in the Hauts-de-France region in Northern France. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/ethylene-downcycle-puts-nearly-25-of-capacity-at-risk-of-closure/ A series of unprecedented challenges to the global ethylene industry means that as much as 24% of global capacity is now under some threat of permanent closure according to new research by Wood Mackenzie. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/russia-gained-newer-diesel-trade-partners-in-2023/ In 2023, Brazil and Saudi Arabia replaced France and Germany as the countries with the second- and third-most seaborne diesel imports from Russia after sanctions related to Russia’s petroleum product trade went into effect in February 2023.