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1. World’s Largest ATR-Based Methanol Plant Has Been Put Into Successful Operation 1/14/2020

   Recently, Topsoe announced the official opening of the world’s only natural gas-to-gasoline complex in Turkmenistan

2. Enterprise Begins Service At Isobutane Dehydrogenation Plant 1/13/2020

   Enterprise Products Partners L.P. today announced that its isobutane dehydrogenation (“iBDH”) plant in the Mont Belvieu, Texas area recently began service, with volumes expected to continue ramping up during the next two weeks

3. Eagle LNG Selects Matrix Service As EPC Contractor To Build Jacksonville LNG Export Facility 1/13/2020

   Eagle LNG Partners LLC (“Eagle LNG”), announced today that it has selected Matrix Service Inc. (“Matrix Service”), a subsidiary of Matrix Service Company (Nasdaq: MTRX), for the engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction of a liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) export facility, to be built in Jacksonville, Florida

4. Shell Chemicals To Produce Polycarbonate 1/13/2020

   Shell today announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CNOOC Oil & Petrochemicals Co Ltd (CNOOC) to explore its first commercial-scale polycarbonate (PC) production unit, which would be located at the CNOOC and Shell Petrochemical Company (CSPC) joint-venture chemicals complex in Huizhou, China.

5. Fluor Partnership Awarded Engineering, Procurement And Construction Services Contract For Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corporation Propane Dehydrogenation Unit 1/9/2020

   Fluor Corporation announced today that Heartland Canada Partners (HCP), Fluor’s 50/50 partnership with Kiewit Construction Services ULC, was awarded a contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for a new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit for Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corporation (CKPC), a 50/50 joint venture between Pembina Pipeline Corporation (Pembina) and Kuwait's Petrochemical Industries Company K.S.C. (PIC)

6. INEOS Styrolution Invests In ABS World-Scale Plant In China 1/9/2020

   INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, has announced today plans to build a world-scale ABS plant in Ningbo, China. The new production site will be adjacent to the recently acquired polystyrene plant in Ningbo

7. Alfa Laval Wins SEK 200 Million Refinery Orders 1/9/2020

   Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won two orders for air coolers and shell and tube heat exchangers, to be installed in a refinery in Russia

8. Air Products To Make Largest-Ever U.S. Investment Of $500M To Build, Own And Operate Its Largest-Ever Hydrogen SMR, A Nitrogen ASU And Utilities Facilities, And Wins Long-Term Contract To Supply Gulf Coast Ammonia's New World-Scale Texas Production Plant 1/8/2020

   Air Products (NYSE: APD) announced today its largest-ever investment in the United States in winning a long-term onsite business model supply agreement for a project with Gulf Coast Ammonia (GCA) in Texas City, Texas

9. Pembina Pipeline Corporation Announces Lump Sum Contract For Petrochemical Facility 1/7/2020

   Pembina Pipeline Corporation ("Pembina" or the "Company") (TSX: PPL;NYSE: PBA) along with Petrochemical Industries Company K.S.C. ("PIC") of Kuwait, is pleased to announce that Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corporation ("CKPC") has executed a lump sum engineering, procurement and construction ("EPC") contract related to the construction of the propane dehydrogenation ("PDH") facility within its integrated PDH and polypropylene ("PP") upgrading facility ("PDH/PP Facility")

10. LyondellBasell Grants 400 KTA Hostalen ACP License To Shandong Jinhai Chemical Co., Ltd 1/7/2020

    LyondellBasell, the world’s largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, today announced that Shandong Jinhai Chemical Co., Ltd. will use the LyondellBasell Hostalen “Advanced Cascade Process” (Hostalen ACP) technology for a new facility