State-owned PT Pertamina has let a contract to Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd. to provide engineering, procurement, and construction for Pertamina’s previously announced $3.9-billion Balikpapan Refining Development Master Plan (RDMP) project.
Fujian Meide Petrochemical has let a contract to Honeywell UOP to deliver technology services for monitoring of its Honeywell UOP-licensed C3 Oleflex unit, which converts propane into 660,000 tonnes/year of propylene.
Hanwha Total Petrochemicals, a 50-50 joint venture of Hanwha Group and Total, has completed a $450-million investment project to expand ethylene capacity of its Daesan refining and petrochemicals integrated complex in Chungnam Province, South Korea.
Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymeres, a 51-49% joint venture of Sonatrach and Total, has let a contract to Honeywell UOP to provide its proprietary C3 Oleflex technology for a grassroots 565,000-tonne/year polymer-grade propylene plant in Arzew, Algeria.
A joint venture of Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corp. and ExxonMobil Corp. has started construction of the JV’s Gulf Coast Growth Ventures project, a 1.8 million-tonne/year ethane cracking complex in San Patricio County, Tex., near Corpus Christi.
Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co. has commissioned a second Honeywell UOP proprietary C3 Oleflex unit as part of the second phase of its propylene dehydrogenation plant in Pinghu City, Zhejiang Province, China.
Nakhodka Mineral Fertilizer Plant CJSC (NZMU) has let a contract to Haldor Topsoe AS to provide technology licensing for a 5,400-tonne/day methanol plant near Vladivostok in eastern Russia.
Meridian Energy has executed long-term water supply and wastewater agreements with the city of Dickinson, ND, for the operator’s grassroots 49,500-b/sd high-conversion Davis refinery to be built in Billings County in the heart of the Bakken shale region.
PJSC Gazprom Neft has completed installation of the main section for its project to expand delayed coking capacity at its 430,000-b/d Omsk refinery in Western Siberia as part of the operator’s second phase of its ongoing modernization program.
MEGlobal International has inaugurated subsidiary MEGlobal Americas Inc.’s monoethylene glycol plant that recently completed construction at Dow Chemical’s currently expanding Oyster Creek petrochemical complex in Freeport, Tex.
LyondellBasell signed a memorandum of understanding to form a 50-50 joint venture with Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group in Panjin, China, to operate a 1.1 million-tonne/year ethylene cracker.
Private Coogee Chemicals reported plans to conduct a study into the feasibility of building a methanol plant in Darwin, Northern Territory. The $500-million (Aus.), 350,000-tonne/year methanol project would be built close to Inpex’s Ichthys LNG plant.
AEON Infrastructure subsidiary GTM One has let a contract to Haldor Topsoe to provide technology licensing, basic engineering, catalysts, and proprietary hardware for a grassroots methanol unit to be built at the Khimprom site in Volgograd, Russia.
Formosa Plastics Corp. Louisiana is investing $332 million to expand its production of polyvinyl chloride resin and add production equipment in two other units at the company’s industrial manufacturing site in Baton Rouge, La.
