ADNOC to expand crude storage footprint in India; inks LPG supply deal with IOC
UAE government-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is ready to strengthen its role in India’s energy sector, with signing...
Middle East crisis reveals vulnerabilities in Japan’s petrochemical industry
The active war in the Middle East has significantly impacted the petrochemical industries in Southeast Asia, which depends on naphtha...
Dow Advances Nuclear Project in Texas, Introduces Data Center Cooling Program
The proposed Long Mott Generating Station would be the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor deployed to serve an industrial site...
British Steel’s nationalisation plan contrasts against chemical industry decline
Last week, UK prime minister Kier Starmer laid out plans to nationalise British Steel, one of the country’s ultimate remaining...
BASF licenses Sumitomo HCl oxidation technology for global isocyanates network
Germany-based chemical major BASF has signed a global licence agreement with Japan-based Sumitomo Chemical - via its license companion Technip...
SOCMA, Specialty Chemical Execs Advocate for Regulatory Reform
Meetings with OSHA, EPA and nine congressional offices concentrate on TSCA modernization, domestic supply chain resilience and tariff exclusion processes....
Europe’s Chemicals Sector Gets a Brief Reprieve
The battered European chemicals industry has simply closed a weak but nevertheless better-than-anticipated first quarter because the supply shock from...
TA’ZIZ bad $2-billion oversubscribed financing to build UAE’s first world-scale methanol plant
TA’ZIZ Methanol Company, a joint project among TA’ZIZ and Proman, has reached financial close on a $2-billion (AED 7.34-billion) financing...
Mitsubishi Chemical to Exit Biodegradable Plastics Business in Thailand
The company stated it determined that long-term sustainable growth of polybutylene succinate manufacturing would be hard under present market situations....
Asahi Kasei to Discontinue Styrene, Polyethylene and Acrylonitrile Manufacturing by 2030
The company plans to stop manufacturing of numerous petrochemical derivatives at its Mizushima Works facility in Japan as part of...