http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing Pakistan-China to sign MoU on oil-to-chemicals complex in June 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. AMETEK Land provides thermal imagers to large ethylene producer 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. HIF Global selects Johnson Matthey’s methanol technology for the largest e-methanol plant in South America 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. BASF expands its biomass balance portfolio for selected chemical intermediates 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). INEOS Inovyn launches next-generation recycling pilot plants to strengthen Europe’s PVC recycling 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. Singapore middle distillate stocks tumble to nearly three-month low http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/singapore-middle-distillate-stocks-tumble-to-nearly-three-month-low/ Singapore's middle distillates stocks slid to a nearly three-month low this week, falling below 11 MMbbl for the first time in a month as gains in jet fuel/kerosene net exports offset declines in diesel/gasoil net exports. MOL inaugurated its €1.3-B, 200,000-tpy polyol complex in Tiszaújváros, Hungary 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. Itochu to buy green ammonia from HIVE's $5.9-B Coega facility http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/itochu-to-buy-green-ammonia-from-hives-59-b-coega-facility/ A division of Hive Energy Ltd. announced that a consortium led by Japanese trading giant Itochu Corp. is on the verge of finalizing an agreement to purchase environmentally friendly ammonia from a project located in South Africa. Nextchem completes acquisition of GasConTec, adding new low-carbon hydrogen/methanol to portfolio 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. FertigHy selects Northern France for first low-carbon fertilizer plant 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.