ethane

Petrochemical producer Westlake expands downstream by adding construction, lightweight materials businesses

Apr 11, 2022

Westlake, a Houston-based chemical producer, has turned into also a large construction and lightweight materials supplier with nationwide presence and dozens of PVC and other specialty products offerings through multiple brand names. Its North American reach...

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...

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...

Efforts to produce bio-naphtha for petrochemical plants feedstock grow with light olefins demand

Feb 22, 2022

Honeywell said that in partnership with Italy´s Eni it has developed a bio-naphtha that may replace some hydrocarbon-derived naphtha feedstock.

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.

ExxonMobil to start polypropylene capacity in Louisiana in 2022; U.S. pipeline companies disagree with initiatives for new regulator; Shell completes sale of Deer Park refinery to Pemex; InterPipeline sees plastic plant completion on budget

Feb 7, 2022

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Brazilian group sees 2021 windfall from U.S. plastic resin sales

Nov 23, 2021

Braskem, which had 64% of the Brazilian petrochemical market in the third quarter 2021, an ethylene/polyethylene plant in Mexico and assets acquired over the last decade that make it North America’s biggest polypropylene producer, saw in July-Sept. 2021 its...

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

News Briefs

Mexico gets Braskem to accept new terms on controversial ethane contract

Oct 12, 2021

Braskem agreed on “adjusting” once very favorable terms on its long-term contract to buy Mexican ethane after a year of talks and following an initial adamant Brazilian stance later softened after Mexicans late last year temporarily forced its Veracruz...

CPChem works on technology to feed waste plastic pyrolysis oil to crackers

Jul 20, 2021

CPChem, which is still evaluating whether conditions are adequate to resume an ethylene and polyethylene project in the U.S. Gulf Coast, is also working on technological developments that could eventually use pyrolysis oil from waste plastic as feedstock for...

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