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1. Alfa Laval Wins SEK 155 Million Renewable Energy Order 4/30/2021

   Alfa Laval - a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling - has won an order to supply a processing line to a petroleum refiner to support production of renewable diesel and jet fuels in Europe

2. Emerging Hydrogen Industry Can Help Tackle Climate Change, But Managing Complex Risks Is Key: Allianz 4/29/2021

   Promoted by governmental funding programs worldwide, hydrogen is predicted to play a leading role in the energy transition towards a low-carbon economy

3. LyondellBasell Licenses Lupotech T Technology To Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co. Ltd. 4/28/2021

   LyondellBasell today announced that Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co. Ltd will use the LyondellBasell Lupotech T high-pressure polyethylene technology in two separate production lines at a new facility

    

4. Lummus Novolen Technology Awarded First Polypropylene Contract In Nigeria For BUA's Grassroots Refinery & Petrochemicals Project 4/28/2021

   Lummus Technology today announced that its Novolen business has been awarded a PP contract by BUA Refinery, a subsidiary of Nigeria's BUA Group, at their grassroots refinery in Nigeria

5. Honeywell To Provide Oleflex Technology To Anchorage Investments For Propylene Production In Egypt 4/26/2021

   Honeywell announced today that Anchorage Investments Ltd. will use Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology to produce 750,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene for its new Anchor Benitoite petrochemicals complex in Suez, Egypt, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal 

6. Maire Tecnimont Group Expands Its Petrochemical Business In India With A New Usd 450 Million Contract By IOCL 4/26/2021

   Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that a consortium composed of its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A. and Mumbai-based Tecnimont Private Limited has been awarded an EPCC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) Lump Sum contract by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), for the implementation of a new Para-Xylene (PX) plant and the relevant offsites facilities. The plant will be located in Paradip, in the State of Odisha, in Eastern India

7. SIBUR And TAIF To Merge Their Petrochemical Businesses 4/23/2021

   Today, SIBUR and TAIF have initiated a number of steps to combine their petrochemical businesses

8. Nacero Selects Topsoe’s TIGAS Technology, Significantly Reducing Lifecycle Carbon Footprint Of Gasoline Production 4/22/2021

   Nacero has licensed Topsoe TIGAS technology for its multi-billion USD natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Penwell, Texas to produce 100,000 barrels per day of gasoline component ready for blending to U.S. commercial grades

9. Sinopec Successfully Starts Up Two DuPont™ STRATCO™ Alkylation Technology Units 4/20/2021

   DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont) is pleased to announce successful performance tests for the STRATCO® alkylation units at the Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Company (ZRCC) refinery in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China and the Yangzi Company (YPC) refinery in Nianjing, Jiangsu, China

10. Air Products' Kochi Industrial Gas Complex Reliably Supplying Syngas To Bharat Petroleum In India 4/19/2021

    Air Products (NYSE: APD), a world leader in industrial gases megaproject development and execution, today announced that the Kochi Industrial Gas Complex is reliably supplying syngas to the Propylene Derivatives Petrochemical Project (PDPP) at the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) Kochi Refinery