Company Dynamic

The first phase of the 150kt/a butane dehydrogenation unit has completed the basic construction and is preparing for the online operation and complex connection tests in middle October.

• Anqing
• ADH

GEM Chemical plans to shut its 200kt/year coal-based MEG plant at Tongliao, Inner Mongolia around October 15 to change catalyst. The maintenance is expected to last for about 15-20 days. GEM Chemical is currently running at about 60% of its capacity.

• GEM
• MEG

Shenhua Baotou has completed maintenance of its 300kt/year PP plant and restarted production on Oct 3. The plant is now running at full rate for PP L5E89.

• PP
• Shenhua

Total (TOTF.PA), Eni (ENI.MI) and Statoil (STL.OL) are seeking buyers for their stake in the Teesside oil terminal in northern England, which receives crude from the Norwegian Ekofisk fields, part of the global Brent benchmark, banking sources said.

• Total
• Eni

French automotive tyre major Michelin will be doubling its production capacity at its Indian facility by 2018 while a new production line for truck tyres was inaugurated on Tuesday, said officials.

• Michelin
• India

Linde Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a member of The Linde Group has launched its first modular automated industrial gases cylinder filling plant in South Asia and ASEAN, located in Banting, Malaysia.

• Linde

Air Liquide SA has signed new supply contracts covering a period of 10 to 15 years with three major Chinese fibre optics manufacturers.

• Air Liquide

Honeywell (HON) UOP has introduced its new connected plant ARMGuard system, a remote monitoring service that helps natural gas processors manage the adsorbents that are used to remove water from natural gas.

• Honeywell

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc (IFF) has opened its fully renovated and expanded facility in Cairo, Egypt.

• IFF

BASF produces ethanolamines at its Verbund sites in Ludwigshafen, Germany; Antwerp, Belgium; and Nanjing, China.

• BASF

Chevron Corporation (CVX) has started producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the Wheatstone project in Western Australia. The first cargo is on track to be shipped in the coming weeks.

• Chevron

Reliance Marcellus II LLC, a subsidiary of Reliance Holding USA Inc. (Reliance), and Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), has signed agreements to sell all of its interest in certain upstream assets in north-eastern and central Pennsylvania.

• Reliance

PhosAgro and the Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) have signed a landmark memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will provide new motivation to the development of the global phosphate-based fertiliser industry.

• PhosAgro

BASF SE hasdeveloped new a material for window profiles with high thermal insulation based on engineering plastic Ultradur.

• BASF

ExxonMobil Corporation (XOM) said that it has made a fifth new oil discovery after drilling the Turbot-1 well offshore Guyana.

• ExxonMobil

Total SA is expanding France residential gas and power distribution market with the introduction of Total Spring, a natural gas and green power offering that is 10 percent cheaper than regulated tariffs.

• Total

Emergency crews responded to a reported explosion at a chemical plant in Eastman Chemical Company in Tennessee, CBS affiliate WJHL-TV reports.

• Eastman
• Explosion

Giti Tire welcomed the Honorable Henry McMaster, Governor of South Carolina, and Greg Foran, President and CEO, Walmart U.S., to celebrate the company’s first tire factory located in the U.S.

• Giti
• Tire

Reliance Industries Ltd has purchased crude oil cargoes from the United States for the first time, drawn by the lower price for U.S. oil versus global benchmarks, three trade sources said on Tuesday.

• Reliance
• India
• Oil

By 2022, Walmart aims to reduce chemicals of concern in the products it sells by 10%, becoming the first US retailer to set a time bound reduction goal.

• Walmart