Tag: ethylene
Hungarian contract for Linde
Linde AG, Wiesbaden, has been awarded by the Hungarian petrochemical company Tiszai Vegyi Kombinát Rt. (TVK) a contract worth approximately EUR 160 million for an
ethylene plant at Tiszaújváros in the NE of Hungary.
TotalFinaElf to revamp French refinery
TotalFinaElf SA plans a 5-year, EUR 70 million programme to revamp its 114,000 bpd Feyzin refinery in the Rhône valley in eastern France.
Ethylene expansion in Poland
ABB has won a USD 165 million contract from Poland’s PKN Orlen SA to expand an ethylene plant in Poland, a project that will substantially increase the country's ethylene and propylene production.
Iranian cracker contract comes into force
The contract awarded to Technip and Nargan by the National Petrochemical Company of Iran (NPC) for the design and construction of its ethane cracker in the 9th Olefin Complex has just become effective.
China boosts ethylene production
Despite slowing global economies and decreasing chemical prices, the Chinese government has decided to increase ethylene production.
China’s Sinopec finishes petrochemicals study
Chinese oil major Sinopec Corp. and two foreign companies have finished a joint feasibility study for a USD 3.0 billion petrochemical complex in southern China.
Modernisation of steam cracking furnaces
The Spanish company Repsol YPF has recently awarded Technip a contract for the modernisation of the nine steam-cracking furnaces of the Repsol Quimica ethylene plant located in Tarragona, Spain.
Asia’s largest petrochemicals complex
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec) and BP Chemicals plan to build a petrochemicals complex that is expected to be the largest of its kind in Asia when it comes on-stream in 2005.
New ethylene projects
Ethylene producers ExxonMobil Chemical and Shell Chemical LP have approved new ethylene projects for the Texas Gulf Coast with investments totaling approximately USD 600 million.
Fina Antwerp Olefins ethylene expansion
M.W. Kellogg Ltd (MWKL), affiliate company of Kellogg Brown & Root (owned by Halliburton), has won the EPC contract for the Fina Antwerp Olefins (FAO) NC2 ethylene expansion and upgrading project following a competitive bidding process.
