
Leading midstream company selects KBR's technology for petrochemical project
KBR has announced that it has secured a contract from a leading midstream company for a world-scale olefins production facility to be built on the US Gulf Coast.
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TOYO has been selected as the commissioned contractor of a project to assess the feasibility of electrifying ethylene cracking furnaces in Thailand, in order to support the country's net zero goals.

Honeywell has introduced a new solution for producing renewable naphtha for petrochemical production.

Shell Catalysts & Technologies’ C2 FE selective hydrogenation catalyst was used at the 750 000 tpy heavy-feed grassroots ethylene plant in Daesan, South Korea.

TOYO has been awarded a contract from a newly-established Chinese subsidiary of Polyplastics Co., Ltd. to construct a polyacetal plant in Nantong, China.

BASF has enhanced the company’s portfolio of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate with the introduction of the Lupranat® ZERO – a greenhouse gas-neutral aromatic isocyanate.

The companies have signed an MoU to commercialise and accelerate the adoption of RDR technology in a bid to significantly reduce GHG emissions in steam cracking plants.

Sulzer Chemtech will provide its SuRe™ BTX technology to recover high-value circular petrochemicals downstream of Encina’s mixed plastics catalytic conversion process.

PT KPI has officially signed a raw material processing agreement with PT TPPI to increase profitability of the refinery and petrochemical business it manages.

BASF has built a new hexamethylene diamine plant in Chalampé, France, and is planning to increase its polyamide 6.6 production in Freiburg, Germany.