The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has signed an agreement with Anchorage Investments, an Egyptian company specialized in investing in and operating companies in the mining and petrochemical sectors, to establish a major...
ExxonMobil reported that its brand-new polypropylene manufacturing unit at the Polyolefins Plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had successfully launched. In order to address the increased demand for high-performance, lig...
Oman Oil and Orpic Group and HSBC Bank Oman SAOG (HSBC Oman) have successfully executed the first blockchain trade finance transaction in Oman, according to Zawya. The transaction involved the shipment of polypropylen...
The Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge) has started constructing the fifth polypropylene unit (PP5) at the Borouge 3 plant in Ruwais, Pipeline Oil & Gas Magazine reported. The PP5 will produce 480,000 tons per ye...
Egypt’s Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Company (Sidpec) has obtained a license from W.R. Grace & Co. to use its UNIPOL PP Process Technology, Egypt Oil & Gas reports. Sidpec will use the technology in its 450...
Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Company (Sidpec) and UOP International have signed a contract for establishing a new propylene factory at Sidpec, Egypt Oil & Gas reports. The contracts were signed in attendance of Egypt...
The new propylene and polypropylene factories owned by Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Company (Sidpec) will start production by 2022, Egypt Oil & Gas reports. They will produce 500,000 tons of propylene and 450,000 ton...
Kuwait’s Petrochemicals Industries Company (PIC) is planning to invest $8b into petrochemical projects in Bahrain and other countries over the next five years, PIC’s CEO, Mohammed Al-Farhoud, said, according to ...