Tag: polyethylene

Global polyethylene capacity is poised to see considerable growth over the next five years, potentially increasing from 110.12 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) in 2018 to 157.02 mtpa in 2023, registering a total growth of 43%, led by Asia and North America.

The government of Oman, Oman Oil Company SAOC (OOC) and the Dow Chemical Company will design, build and operate a petrochemical complex in Oman.

Uhde GmbH has been awarded a contract by PetroChina Company Ltd to design a polyethylene plant.

President Mohammad Khatami has inaugurated Phases 2 and 3 of Iran's oil projects which he described as among the "biggest projects of Iran's oil and gas industry".

BASF (Germany) plans to expand its biggest China investment, a USD 2.9 billion petrochemicals complex in Nanjing, by 2010, to keep up with the rapidly expanding Chinese market.

Italy's second-biggest energy group Edison has announced that its engineering and construction unit Tecnimont has won a USD 220 million deal to build a polyolefin complex, part of China's huge petrochemical project.

The French Centre for Foreign Trade reports that the consortium Euro-Chem (Indonesia and Singapore) plans to build a methanol, ethylene and polyethylene complex in Nigeria, to come online in 2006.

Vietnam Saigon Plastic Association (VSPA) has boosted its plans to build a USD 800 million, natural-gas fired plastics plant in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.

Pars Petrochemical Company – a wholly owned affiliate of the National Petrochemical Company of Iran – has just awarded Technip-Coflexip and its Iranian partner Nargan, an EPC contract for the design and construction of a low density polyethylene plant for the 9th Olefins Complex at Asaluyeh.

The petrochemical unit of Mexico's state oil company Pemex will launch a tender in February 2003 for two petrochemical complexes, one at Coatzacoalcos in Veracruz state, and the other at Altamira in Tamaulipas state.