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2019/09/12 |
Asian ethylene shut for maintenance |
Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co, has restarted its methanol-to-olefins (MTO) plant, on August 12, 2019. The plant was shut for mainte... |
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2019/08/29 |
SKC Plans to Spin-Off Chem Business; Will Form PO JV with Kuwait's PIC |
SKC Co. has received board of directors' approval to vertically spin-off its chemical business and sell a 49% interest in the new separate e... |
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2019/08/14 |
Fire at ExxonMobil Baytown chemical facility continues |
A fire at ExxonMobil's Baytown, Texas, olefins complex will be allowed to burn itself out. The fire started July 31th morning in a propylene... |
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2019/07/30 |
Haiwan Chemical Selects KBR Technology For Chinese Phenol and Acetone Plant |
Qingdao Haiwan Chemical has awarded a technology contract to KBR for a new 320 kta phenol and acetone facility to be built in Dongjiakou Ind... |
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2019/07/23 |
S-Oil Inaugurates RUC & ODC at Onsan |
Onsan S-Oil's new residue upgrading complex (RUC) and olefin downstream complex (ODC) has been inaugurated at the company's Onsan Refinery i... |
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2019/07/09 |
Polyethylene capacity additions led by US and Asia by 2023 |
Global polyethylene capacity is poised to see considerable growth over the next five years, potentially increasing from 110 mta in 2018 to 1... |
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2019/06/24 |
YNCC to complete maintenance at No. 1 steam cracker |
Yeochun Naphtha Cracking Centre (YNCC) is in plans to restart its No. 1 naphtha cracker following a maintenance turnaround. The company has... |
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2019/06/05 |
Unplanned outage reported at methanol plant of Zagros Petrochemical |
Zagros Petrochemicals has undertaken an emergency shutdown at its No. 2 methanol plant at Assaluyeh. The company has halted operations at th... |
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2019/05/30 |
Asahi Kasei shuts Mizushima cracker for maintenance |
Asahi Kasei has taken off-stream its cracker for a maintenance turnaround. The company has commenced turnaround at the cracker on May 22, 20... |
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2019/05/23 |
Unplanned outage reported at Beek cracker by SABIC |
Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) has taken off-stream its SABIC Olefins 4 cracker owing to technical issues. The cracker has halted opera... |
