ExxonMobil has changed the pricing basis for its 2020 term paraxylene (PX) contract to include Argus cfr Taiwan and China assessments.
News ID: 7585 Publish Date : 2019/11/28
ExxonMobil is carrying out maintenance at an unspecified unit at its Singapore Chemical Plant that has resulted in flaring.
News ID: 7584 Publish Date : 2019/11/28
Asia Contract Price (ACP) linked paraxylene (PX) producers have tabled their offers for the December benchmark price.
News ID: 7582 Publish Date : 2019/11/28
South Korean benzene producers are seeking higher premiums for 2020 term sales with the contract negotiations still in their initial stages.
News ID: 7555 Publish Date : 2019/11/25
Iranian petrochemical plants are defeating the US sanctions against the country as they have managed to materialize their objectives in sales and production so far, CEO of Jam Petrochemical Plant Mohammad Reza Saeedi said.
News ID: 7530 Publish Date : 2019/11/24
The CEO of Arvand Catalysts Plant said the company supplied 70% of its need for catalysts from domestic producers.
News ID: 7490 Publish Date : 2019/11/20
Bolivia's center-right interim president Jeanine Anez named a new hydrocarbons minister as part of a "technical" cabinet meant to tide the country over until new elections take place next year.
News ID: 7480 Publish Date : 2019/11/15
India's polyethylene (PE) demand is expected to remain at around 8pc until 2021, before being spurred on by economic and infrastructural growth, according to state-controlled gas distributor and petrochemical producer Gail.
News ID: 7457 Publish Date : 2019/11/14
CEO of the Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (PGPIC) Jafar Rabiyee said that pet-chem industry in Iran is moving forward steadfastly, reassuring that both production and exports of the sector are meeting the schedules, despite US pressures and economic bans against Tehran.
News ID: 7443 Publish Date : 2019/11/13
Vietnam's Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical (NSRP) is offering small quantities of off-specification polypropylene (PP).
News ID: 7430 Publish Date : 2019/11/13
Iran will complete construction process for as many as 17 petrochemical plants in the Southeastern port city of Chabahar by 2024, a local official said, adding that the projects will increase the country’s pet-chem output by 4.6 million tons.
News ID: 7394 Publish Date : 2019/11/12
Asia-Pacific styrene monomer (SM) producers are starting to reduce their operating rates after integrated producers endured a month of production losses for the first time since 2014.
News ID: 7380 Publish Date : 2019/11/12
Keith Couch is senior programme director in Honeywell UOP's technology sales and integrated projects group. Honeywell UOP is an international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts and adsorbents to the petroleum refining, petrochemical and gas processing industries. In this interview, edited for length and clarity, Keith talks about the challenges for export-dependent refineries and opportunities for downstream petrochemicals.
News ID: 7321 Publish Date : 2019/11/08
National Iranian Oil Engineering and Construction Company (NIOEC) signed an agreement with two domestic companies namely Machine Sazi Arak and AzarAb Industries for cooperation on indigenizing the manufacturing of some equipment used in petrochemical industry.
News ID: 7245 Publish Date : 2019/10/22
Tondgouyan Petrochemical Company, the largest supplier of PET in Iran, has recorded a superb performance in the first 7 months of the current local calendar year (March 21-October 22) with an output at 103% of its nameplate capacity.
News ID: 7243 Publish Date : 2019/11/05
Taiwan's state-owned CPC has issued a tender to buy benzene for the coming year.
News ID: 7225 Publish Date : 2019/11/05
Singapore, 5 November (Argus) ? Indian state-controlled petrochemical producer OMPL has issued a term tender to sell from New Mangalore 570,000t of paraxylene (PX), or 50,000t each month next year except for 20,000t in April. Bids should be submitted by 13 November with validity to the next day.
News ID: 7223 Publish Date : 2019/11/05
Iran will set up a pavilion at Kazakhstan’s 11th international exhibition for plastic industry (PLAST WORLD) next month, Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPO) published on its official website.
News ID: 7208 Publish Date : 2019/10/12
Head of Iran’s National Petrochemicals Company (NPC) said investment in the country’s petrochemical sector is going to increase by 75 percent by the end of the Iranian calendar year 1404 (March 2026), IRNA reported.
News ID: 7201 Publish Date : 2019/10/11
South Korea's largest paraxylene (PX) producer SK Global Chemical (SKGC) has changed the pricing basis for its 2020 term contract to include Argus cfr Taiwan and China spot assessments.
News ID: 7120 Publish Date : 2019/11/04
