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BP unveils annual energy review, sees China passing US as top consumer
China became the world’s largest energy consumer in 2010, overtaking the US during a year which saw the global economic recovery drive consumption higher and at a rate not seen since the aftermath of the 1973 oil price shocks, BP said in its annual global energy review.
SKC to build new PET plant in South Korea
German engineering firm Uhde Inventa-Fischer said Monday that it had signed a contract to build a polyethylene terepthalate (PET) plant for SKC Co. at Jincheon in South Korea.
Chemtura to construct new China plant to serve petroleum additives, urethanes
US-based specialty chemicals firm Chemtura is planning to build a new multi-purpose manufacturing facility in Nantong, China, to serve its petroleum additives and urethanes businesses.
Dow to form carbon fiber JV with Turkey's Aksa
Dow Chemical, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Dow Europe GmbH, said it plans to form a joint venture to manufacture and globally commercialize carbon fiber and derivatives with Turkey’s Aksa Akrilik Kimya Sanayii A.Ş. (Aksa).
PPG buys South Africa distributor Ducol Coatings
US chemicals and coatings producer PPG Industries has acquired the business of Ducol Coatings, which has served as an importer and distributor of PPG’s automotive refinish products in South Africa since 2003.
HP Construction: North America
KBR has been awarded a $65 million contract by Chevron Products Co. to execute a base-oil expansion project at Chevron’s refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The construction project includes bui..
HP Construction: South America
Technip, in consortium with Tomé Engenharia, was awarded a lump-sum turnkey EPC contract by Petrobras for five new units at the Presidente Bernardes Refinery in Cubatão, state of São Pa..
HP Construction: Europe
Evonik Industries has started up a new facility to produce high-purity isobutene at its site in Antwerp, Belgium. The new plant, which involved investment of tens of millions of euros, can produce up ..
HP Construction: Middle East
GS Engineering & Construction Corp. has signed a $556 million deal to build a gas storage facility in Kuwait. Under the deal with the state-run Kuwait National Petroleum Co., GS Engineering will compl..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, has a contract from Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries Inc. LLP (KPI) for the license and basic engineering of a propane dehydrogenation unit and a polypropylene pl..
- Neste, ITOCHU, Gas Caltex collaborate to make the first batch of CORSIA-certified SAF available for purchase in Japan 9/19
- RWE and AM Green Ammonia to supply up to 250,000 tpy of RFNBO-compliant ammonia from India 9/19
- U.S. offers $1.56-B conditional loan for Indiana ammonia facility 9/19
- McDermott and BW Offshore collaborate to enable offshore blue ammonia production 9/19
- Global consortium pioneers ammonia cargo transfer between ships at Australian port 9/19
- Indian refiners jointly negotiating for 2025 Russian oil supplies 9/19
