petrochemical

USW union holds talks with oil and petrochemical industry represented by Marathon; Shell sees Pennsylvania resin plant startup before year's end; Mexico-based Alpek pays $620 million for Oman-based PET sheet producer; U.S. Silica to raise prices

Feb 22, 2022

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North America to see 4 million tonnes of new polyethylene production in 2022, half of it for export

Feb 7, 2022

North America will see in 2022 startups of new annual production capacity for nearly four million tonnes of polyethylene, the plastic resin most commonly seen shaped as grocery bags or milk jugs that has multiple packaging applications.

U.S. Gulf Coast lost construction jobs as oil and gas investment slowed

Jan 24, 2022

U.S. construction investment in oil, gas fields and pipelines contracted 4% in January-November 2021 from a year earlier, according to data shared by the U.S. Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) in January.

Air Liquide, BASF and Shell join carbon capture initiative in Houston; Braskem makes first propylene import into East Coast in a decade; Omicron slows jet fuel recovery in first quarter 2022

Jan 24, 2022

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China Petroleum signs 20-year contract to get LNG shipped from Louisiana; Braskem taps U.S. lawyers over former Pemex CEO’s testimony; Braskem-Idesa to expand ethane import capacity; Argentina’s Pampa Energia sales see 49% on-year increase

Nov 23, 2021

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U.S.jet fuel demand seen back to pre-pandemic levels by late 2022; Dow posted $14.8 billion net sales revenue for July-Sep 2021; Braskem gets creditors approval for Mexican contract changes; Mexico’s Alpek to increase PET recycling capacity

Oct 26, 2021

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U.S. Gulf Coast chemical plants, refiners study carbon dioxide storage to cut emissions

Sep 28, 2021

Chevron, Dow, ExxonMobil, INEOS and LyondellBasell as well as other petrochemical companies and refiners will jointly study the feasibility of using underground storage to trap carbon dioxide from operations currently released as air emissions.

MEGlobal to get renewable energy for Texas petrochemical plant; Dow Polyurethanes inaugurates mattress recycling plant; Brookfield names new CEO, CFO for Inter Pipeline; Global chlor-alkali market seen expanding 4.1% annually until 2026

Sep 28, 2021

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Canadian petrochemical industry to see two startups in 2022 while other projects planned for methanol and hydrogen

Sep 14, 2021

Canada will soon see new polyethylene and polypropylene capacity as new plants start up while investors contemplate other downstream projects, said in an interview Bob Masterson, president of the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC).

U.S. contractors association warns about inflation, supply chain delays

Jul 20, 2021

The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), an organization that groups 27,000 member companies, updated in mid-2021 an inflation alert originally issued in the first quarter after most key construction materials such as steel continued to soar while...

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