Asia/Pacific
HP People
Willbros Group has announced that Robert R. Harl, who joined Willbros in 2006 and has served as CEO of the company since January 2007, is retiring as CEO and director when his current employment agree..
Wanted: Future leaders
The hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) has known for some time that a great shift change is eminent. The experienced engineers, chemists and crafts hired in the 1970s and 1980s are reaching retirem..
GTC Technology chosen for China aromatics unit
The new unit is the eighth GT-BTX license in China and will play an integral role in the 5-million tpy refinery being constructed by Shandong Sincier Chemical Group (SSCG).
BASF opens China mobile emissions catalysts site
The inauguration event culminates a three-year expansion project by BASF which doubles the company’s production capacity for mobile emissions catalysts in China.
Clariant opens chemical research facility in India
Located in Navi Mumbai, the new facility will host approximately 100 technical employees in chemical research and application development in the near future.
Russia’s Rosneft, China’s CNPC to increase refining, LNG collaboration
Rosneft and CNPC leaders say they intend to proceed on upstream projects in Russia, refining in China (Tianjin refinery) and several other joint venues of work cooperation.
Shell Chemicals offers gas-based fluids, solvents
The high-purity paraffinic fluids are made from gas-to-liquids (GTL) products manufactured at the world’s largest GTL plant -- Pearl GTL in Qatar, a joint venture of Shell and Qatar Petroleum.
CB&I to design gasification unit for China’s Sincier
The unit will utilize CB&I's proprietary E-GasPlus technology for a three-train facility to produce syngas for hydrogen, fuel gas and power. This plant will have the capability of operating on coal and petroleum coke, or a combination of these fuels with a liquid or solid residue from an upstream hydrocracking unit.
Celanese, Indian Oil to study building big India fuel ethanol plant
The project is expected to be located at Paradip in the Odisha State of India and will utilize petroleum coke (petcoke) from Indian Oil’s refineries as the primary ethanol feedstock.
CB&I licenses technology for China PP expansion
The unit will use CB&I's Novolen technology to produce 600,000 tpy of polypropylene. There are already two units utilizing Novolen technology on site - each with cascade and parallel lines.
- UPM unlocks new bio-based markets as Leuna biorefinery produces its first commercial product 12/19
- Stamicarbon awarded technology licensing contract for new urea plant in Eastern China 12/19
- Ford takes $19.5-B writedown on EV business 12/19
- Babcock & Wilcox awarded $40-MM contract for advanced wet gas scrubbing technology at Canadian petroleum refinery 12/19
- Aarti Industries secures methanol and toluene feedstock supply through multiple long-term contracts 12/19
- bp picks first outsider CEO Meg O'Neill after abrupt Auchincloss exit 12/19
