petrochemical

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency evaluates formaldehyde risks for possible action

Jul 5, 2022

Formaldehyde, an intermediate for plastics, adhesives, pesticides, fertilizers, cosmetics and other products so common that the U.S. biggest chemical guild says may help support as many as a million jobs, is undergoing evaluations at the Environmental...

North American polypropylene market to see two startups, challenged demand in 2022

Jun 7, 2022

North American polypropylene producers won´t see this year a repeat of 2021, when stronger-than-expected demand as the pandemic eased after vaccines met extreme supply tightness. This year is different not just because of startups in Louisiana and Canada that...

Two Mexican plastic conglomerates tap windfall earnings to diversify from Mexico

May 9, 2022

Two Mexican plastic conglomerates, Alpek and Orbia, have used a windfall from operations that continued in the first quarter to fund investment involving plant acquisitions and market development far from Mexico, in moves that coincide with a private...

U.S. refining and chemical companies want more competition in rail; U.S. petrochemical industry supports renewing Section 301 exclusions; Canada´s Ontario province to promote chemistry, CIAC says

May 8, 2022

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Canada´s Inter Pipeline considers carbon capture and storage for new PDH, polypropylene plant

Mar 21, 2022

Canada´s Inter Pipeline, a midstream operator that will complete this year the construction of the country´s first PDH and polypropylene complex, is studying a project that could turn the facilities located near Edmonton, Alberta into net zero emissions...

Braskem set to start construction of $420-million ethane import terminal in Mexico´s biggest private investment project

Mar 21, 2022

Brazil-based Braskem, which owns a cracker and polyethylene plant in Mexico that started up over five years ago but has yet to run at full capacity, plans to begin in the second half of 2022 works contemplated for the past four years to build a $420-million...

Thailand´s PTT Global Chemical announcement of new application for permit revives Ohio cracker project

Mar 8, 2022

PTT Global Chemical, one of Thailand´s biggest petrochemical producers, announced in late February it will draft a new air permit request to present to Ohio authorities for a world scale polyethylene project aligned with the company´s recently announced new...

Mexico´s Pemex faces spike in worker accidents, rising emissions, and declining chemical production

Mar 8, 2022

Mexican state oil company Pemex, which owns six refineries in Mexico as well as the recently transferred Deer Park refinery in Texas, reported in late February that its petrochemical production declined in 2021, a year when worker accidents surged and...

Bechtel to fully eliminate U.S. mustard gas stockpiles by 2023; Shell report sees global LNG trade nearly doubling by 2040; AFPM sees potential for more Latin American, Canada oil imports; U.S. chemical production nearly flat in Jan. from 2021

Mar 8, 2022

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U.S., France to seek global accords on plastic but environmentalists wary about “non-binding commitments”

Feb 22, 2022

The governments of France and the U.S. announced on Feb. 11, 2022 that they have decided to start work together to seek international accords to reduce plastic waste so that it won´t end up in rivers and oceans.

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