Nayara Energy lets contract for unit at Vadinar refinery
Nayara Energy Ltd. has let a contract to W.R. Grace & Co. to provide technology licensing for a unit at its 400,000-b/d Vadinar refinery in Gujarat, India.
As part of the contract, Grace will license its proprietary Unipol PP process technology as well as its Consista catalyst for the 450,000-tonne/year unit, which will process propylene feedstock to produce phthalate-free homopolymer products for the Indian market, the service provider said.
Grace disclosed neither a value of the contract nor a timeframe for the unit’s targeted start-up.
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Robert Brelsford joined Oil & Gas Journal in October 2013 as downstream technology editor after 8 years as a crude oil price and news reporter on spot crude transactions at the US Gulf Coast, West Coast, Canadian, and Latin American markets. He holds a BA (2000) in English from Rice University and an MS (2003) in education and social policy from Northwestern University.