8/24/2010 - Shell Chemicals announced the successful first turnaround at the CSPCL - "Nanhai" petrochemicals joint venture complex in Guangdong, China. Nanhai is a joint venture with China National Offshore Oil C... |
5/11/2010 - Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) announced the start-up of commercial production at the newly constructed petrochemical complex at Tia... |
4/20/2010 - Borouge, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, inaugurated its first compounding manufacturing plant in China at a ceremony held at the plant in Shanghai on April 20, 20... |
4/19/2010 - On April 14, Wu Bangguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of CPC and also Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, made an... |
2/22/2010 - Fluor Corporation announced that it is currently performing a feasibility study for a joint venture led by PetroChina Company Limited. The proposed 440,000 barrel-per-day refinery and 1.2 million tons... |
1/15/2010 - Eastman Chemical Company announced that it has completed the acquisition of Tongxiang Xinglong Fine Chemical Co., Ltd., a cellulose-based specialty polymers manufacturing facility located near Shangha... |
1/8/2010 - CB&I announced that Petrochina Jilin Petrochemical Company (Jilin) has awarded a contract to Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, for the license and process design of a grassroots ethylbenzene and styr... |
11/11/2009 - ExxonMobil and its partners, Sinopec, Fujian Province and Saudi Aramco, celebrated the full operation of China’s first integrated refining and petrochemical facility with foreign participation. This f... |
10/10/2009 - UOP LLC announced Thursday that Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd. has successfully started up a new para-xylene complex using UOP process technology at the Sinopec facility in Shanghai. ... |
9/22/2009 - Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s biggest maker of chemicals used in plastic bottles, is boosting investment in Asian plants on expectations Chinese demand will increase faster than sales of gasoline and... |
8/20/2009 - CNOOC's first major refinery in southern China, the Huizhou plant, will run at 80 to 90 percent of its 240,000 barrel per day capacity for the rest of the year, following its start-up in mid-March, co... |
7/30/2009 - On July 21, world's largest NBR plant was completed at Lanzhou Petrochemical Company. ... |
7/22/2009 - On July 17, Jilin Petrochemical laid foundations for the construction of a 10 Mt/a refining expansion project and a 400 kt/a ABS project. ... |
7/22/2009 - PetroChina has started building a 2.5 million tonne-per-year (tpy) catalytic cracker as well as several other units in Sichuan, part of the largest refining and chemical complex in southwestern China.... |
7/11/2009 - Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) announced that it has received an official approval from the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to participate jointly with China Petr... |
11/18/2008 - LyondellBasell Industries on Tuesday announced the launch of Alastian, its no-frills online polyolefins business, in China, India and Vietnam. "Our web-based channel offers an easy, convenient and rel... |
9/10/2008 - The Linde Group entered into a joint venture with SINOPEC Fujian Petrochemical Company Limited (FPCL), a subsidiary of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC), for the long-term supply of ind... |
9/4/2008 - KBR awarded a contract by Changzhou Kingboard Century Chemical Co., Ltd to provide licensing and related services for a new phenol plant in Changzhou, China. As part of the contract, KBR will license ... |
8/12/2008 - On August 7, 2008 the last newly-built unit-hydrocracking unit of the refining base at Dalian Petrochemical, was successfully started up at the first try. This represented that China's largest refinin... |
7/29/2008 - PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co. (PetroChina Sichuan) has selected UNIPOL(TM) Polypropylene Process Technology from Dow Technology Licensing for its new 450 KTA polypropylene facility in Chengdu, ... |