The managing director of Iran’s National Petrochemical Company (NPC) said that making the petrochemical industry smart is the only way for a stable presence in the global markets.
News ID: 9633 Publish Date : 2020/05/31
A senior energy official said that Iran's petrochemical complexes achieved a six percent rise in production in the first two months of the current Iranian year (started on March 20, 2020) compared to the corresponding period in the last year.
News ID: 9542 Publish Date : 2020/05/19
The output of Iranian petrochemical production units in the first 50 days of the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 19) increased by six percent compared to the previous year’s same period, Shana reported.
News ID: 9511 Publish Date : 2020/05/17
Demand for polymers in India has seen a slight recovery, a week after the easing of restrictions on industrial operations to curb the Covid-19 pandemic.
News ID: 9497 Publish Date : 2020/05/15
China's Chambroad Petrochemical is planning to build two 600,000 t/yr polypropylene (PP) units as part of a 5.17bn yuan ($728mn) propylene plant with 2.04mn t/yr of raw material processing capacity.
News ID: 9496 Publish Date : 2020/05/15
Methanol sellers in Asia and the Middle East are under pressure to cut production rates or face demurrage costs as Chinese storage tanks have no space left.
News ID: 9490 Publish Date : 2020/05/15
Iran’s Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) is due to carry out four major research projects aimed at increasing the recovery factor of the country’s oil fields by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2021), Shana reported quoting the head of RIPI’s upstream faculty.
News ID: 9428 Publish Date : 2020/05/09
The Indian government has warned all chemical plants to take precautionary measures while resuming operations following yesterday's fatal leak at the LG Polymers India (LGPI) plant, potentially complicating restarts as the country's Covid-19 lockdown eases.
News ID: 9380 Publish Date : 2020/05/08
A fall in demand because of the Covid-19 pandemic hit US fuel ethanol exports to Asia in March while industrial grade sales rose, according to customs data.
News ID: 9376 Publish Date : 2020/05/08
Philippine oil companies are pushing the government to suspend its 10pc ethanol blending mandate in transport fuel (E10) as they fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
News ID: 9353 Publish Date : 2020/05/06
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has instructed Oil Ministry to take the necessary measures for increasing the presence of oil and petrochemical companies in the stock market, Shana reported.
News ID: 9289 Publish Date : 2020/05/02
Japanese emulation rubber and synthetic resin producer JSR saw reduced demand for its key products from domestic and overseas auto producers during the 2019-20 fiscal year ending 31 March because of the impact of Covid-19 in the final quarter.
News ID: 9279 Publish Date : 2020/04/30
Philippine cracker operator JG Summit has postponed the start-up of several of its expanded downstream petrochemical units to this year's fourth quarter, as the Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent nation-wide lockdown affected work that was initially expected to see them come on stream in June.
News ID: 9255 Publish Date : 2020/04/28
Australia is drawing urea spot cargoes as importers prepare for a potential record sales year, marking a sharp contrast to the rest of Asia-Pacific where demand is absent.
News ID: 9221 Publish Date : 2020/04/22
Spot ethylene prices have fallen below $300/t cfr northeast Asia to a new record low.
News ID: 9216 Publish Date : 2020/04/22
Qatari state-owned energy firm Qatar Petroleum (QP) has announced the integration of petrochemical firm SEEF into its operations, with QP Operations (Refining) to manage SEEF's facilities.
News ID: 9202 Publish Date : 2020/04/20
Indian state-controlled refiner MRPL has issued an export tender offering 8,000t of polypropylene (PP) grades, its second for April.
News ID: 9196 Publish Date : 2020/04/20
Japanese chemicals producer Sekisui Chemical plans to start the verification of bioethanol output produced from rubbish by the end of the 2021-22 fiscal year.
News ID: 9195 Publish Date : 2020/04/20
Spanish ethanol producers are preparing to cut runs as demand for gasoline drops sharply.
News ID: 9190 Publish Date : 2020/04/20
Polymer inventories in China are continuing to fall, signalling convertors' return to resin buying after a months-long coronavirus-related lockdown in the country.
News ID: 9172 Publish Date : 2020/04/16
