Tag: petrochemicals

Qatar cracker

TotalFinaElf SA has said that its Atofina division had agreed with Chevron Phillips Chemical and two Qatari firms to build what could become the world's largest ethane cracker in Qatar.

Foster Wheeler wins Swedish contract

Foster Wheeler Ltd.’s UK subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd (FWEL), has been awarded an engineering and procurement (E&P) contract by Preem Raffinaderi AB for a USD 34 million isomerisation revamp project at their refinery in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Largest polyester complex in the Middle East

Saudi Egyptian Petrochemical Company (Cairo, Egypt) is constructing a USD 550 million polyester complex in El-Ameriya, Alexandria, Egypt.

Jacobs wins contract from Marathon Ashland

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has won a contract from Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC (MAP).

Texas plastic upgrade

Contech Control Services has been awarded a turn-key contract for engineering, procurement, construction, and on-line commissioning services for the upgrade of distributed control systems at ExxonMobil Chemical's BAPP plastics plant located in Baytown, Texas.

Polyethylene plant in Russia

Tecnimont, the Engineering and Construction Company of Montedison Group, has signed in Moscow, with AK Sibur, a Russian Company controlled by Gazprom, a contract covering the grant of licence and the supply of engineering, materials and equipment as well as technical assistance for the implementation at Kstovo (Nizhniy Novgorod) of a 120,000 tpy High Density Polyethylene Plant.

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.

Sinopec in deal with BP

China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec) have signed a contract with a British firm yesterday to build a petrochemicals complex that is expected to be the largest of its kind in Asia when it comes on stream in 2005.

Pemex investment

Pemex is to invest Pesos 1.473bil in total this and next year.

Petrochemical plants for Singapore

Royal Dutch/Shell Group is carrying out feasibility studies on building USD 1 billion worth of new petrochemical plants in Singapore.