Polymer exports from Malaysia's state-owned Petronas are expected to be affected after a second fire in 12 months at its new petrochemical facility in Pengerang.
News ID: 8731 Publish Date : 2020/03/16
One of the important measures taken by petrochemical companies in the past several days to help fight the rapidly spreading coronavirus in Iran has been to increase production of javel water and antiseptic solutions, managing director of Petrochemical Special Economic Zone Organization said.
News ID: 8673 Publish Date : 2020/03/10
Middle East petrochemical producers remain on edge after crude futures slumped in Asian trading to a more than four-year low.
News ID: 8660 Publish Date : 2020/03/09
Traders are exploring possibilities of exporting Chinese butadiene (BD) to South Korea after an explosion at Lotte Chemical's Daesan cracker on 4 March crippled a 150,000 t/yr extraction unit and forced an indefinite force majeure declaration. The accident injured at least 31 people.
News ID: 8590 Publish Date : 2020/03/06
Chinese petrochemical producer, Sinochem Hongrun, is planning to restart production at its Weifang aromatics plant this week after it shut down in mid-October amid technical problems and poor economics.
News ID: 8578 Publish Date : 2020/03/04
Iran’s export of petrochemical products has grown by 5 percent in the first 10 months of the current local calendar year (March 21, 2019-January 20, 2020), as compared to the corresponding period last year, said Spokesman of Iran's Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters' Union Seyed Hamid Hosseini.
News ID: 8543 Publish Date : 2020/03/02
Paraxylene producers linked to the Asia contract price (ACP) have submitted their offers for the March benchmark price.
News ID: 8501 Publish Date : 2020/02/26
A new report shows that Iran’s production of chemical and petrochemical items have posted a 1.9 percent increase in the first 10 months of the current local calendar year (March 21, 2019 –January 20, 2020), indicating that Tehran has overpowered Washington’s pressures.
News ID: 8486 Publish Date : 2020/02/25
The rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak in South Korea is forcing airlines to cut more flights and leading to a downward revision in economic forecasts for the country, a major regional importer of crude and exporter of oil products and petrochemical s.
News ID: 8480 Publish Date : 2020/02/24
China's Hengli Petrochemical is starting up today its 2.5mn t/yr No.4 purified terephthalic acid (PTA) unit at Dalian.
News ID: 8254 Publish Date : 2020/01/08
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday paid a visit to an exhibition on the country’s latest products and achievements in the petrochemical industry.
News ID: 8167 Publish Date : 2019/12/30
Jam Polypropylene Company has set a new production record in the first 8 months of the current calendar year, which began on March 21.
News ID: 8094 Publish Date : 2019/12/25
Oman's government has announced further details of its planned integration of state-owned oil company OOC, refiner Orpic and seven other domestic energy firms.
News ID: 8004 Publish Date : 2019/12/18
South Korea's LG Chem plans to reduce operating rates at its 1.27mn t/yr Daesan cracker by 5pc to 95pc from January because of squeezed production margins.
News ID: 8003 Publish Date : 2019/12/18
Japan's naphtha imports for ethylene production in November fell against a year earlier for the third consecutive month, reflecting lower ethylene output and the rising use of butane as an alternative feedstock.
News ID: 7996 Publish Date : 2019/12/17
South Korea's S-Oil has settled its first term 2020 paraxylene (PX) contract, which includes an Argus cfr Taiwan/China component, with China's Shenghong Petrochemical.
News ID: 7982 Publish Date : 2019/12/16
New report shows that neighboring countries are increasing their purchase of Iran’s petrochemical products through a local energy exchange where more than $200 million sales have been recorded just in last week.
News ID: 7954 Publish Date : 2019/12/15
Iran’s Noori Petrochemical Plant announced that its output records are higher than the set goals, adding that 60% of its production in the last 8.5 months have been exported.
News ID: 7888 Publish Date : 2019/12/10
Load and unload operations for petrochemical and other oil-product cargoes have surged by almost a third in one month at the Iranian ports, indicating that the country has managed to find a way around the US unilateral sanctions which were supposed to paralyze Tehran’s economy.
News ID: 7717 Publish Date : 2019/12/03
Iran is planning to indigenize the equipment needed for the manufacturing of downstream petrochemical industries, an industrial official announced.
News ID: 7705 Publish Date : 2019/12/02