Tag: Petrochemical

China approves refinery projects

China has approved the building of two oil refineries on the east coast costing more than USD 3 billion to help meet its surging demand for petroleum products.

Linde receives order from Saudi Arabia

Linde AG will construct a facility to produce Linear Alpha Olefins for the Jubail United Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation.

Top tensile strength

Panduit (London, UK) has produced a new stainless steel cable tie design that is claimed to have the world's highest rated ratio of loop tensile strength to tie width.

Enhanced locking head

PANDUITâ„¢ Ltd has launched a new stainless steel tie design.

Sabic to build second EG plant

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation will construct a new Ethylene Glycol (EG) plant at Jubail United Petrochemical Company.

Manifolds in exotic materials

Parker Instrumentation has launched Pro-Bloc, a range of one-piece double-block-and-bleed manifolds designed to reduce the size and weight of process monitoring instrumentation installations.

Arc Energy revamps work stations

Arc Energy Resources, a specialist in corrosion and wear resistant weld overlay cladding for the oil & gas, petrochemical and process industries, is completing a comprehensive refit of the work stations at its Gloucestershire factory.

ERG Raffinerie Mediterranee SRL

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) has announced that ERG Raffinerie Mediterranee SRL has selected EMRE's GO-fining(1) technology to hydrotreat the feed to their Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC).

Venezuela and Brazil to sign pact

The respective presidents of Venezuela and Brazil, Hugo Chavez and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, will sign a number of energy sector agreements later this week.

Electric vibrators for chemical industry

At Achema 2003 Italvibras G. Silingardi SpA will present its new MVSS series stainless steel electric vibrator ranges and the MICRO series, together with increased safety vibrators and flanged vibrators.