Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'coal'
China To Grow at 3 Percent
By John Richardson THE possibility that China's economy may not expand as rapidly in the future as in the past is never discussed in public by resources-company CEOs, said an Australian-based stockbroker. His comments ring true for petrochemicals, also. The...
China coal-based MEG moves ahead
By Malini Hariharan China's second coal-based monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant is due to start in the second half of 2012, reports ICIS news. The plant, located in Hebi, Henan province, will have a capacity of 250,000 tonnes/year and will be...
Coal chemicals wave sweeps China
By Malini Hariharan A few months back the blog had expressed sceptism on a Chinese company's plans for a methanol-to-olefins (MTO) project based on imported methanol. The economics of such projects appear doubtful but many Chinese companies are looking to...
China's coal chemical projects take shape
By Malini Hariharan The first of China's major coal-based chemical projects has finally started trial operations. ICIS news reports that methanol has been fed at Shenhua Baotou's 600,000 tonnes/year methanol-to-olefins (MTO) plant at Baotou, in inner Mongolia. The unit can...
Life gets more complicated for methanol
In the good or maybe the bad old days depending on your standpoint, methanol was a fairly straightforward product. You had chemicals demand and that was more or less it. But as the extended analysis below explains, chemical producers who...
Are coal-to-chemicals projects in China a load of nonsense?
Maybe, if the mystery blogger at the excellent http://www.theoildrum.com/ site knows what he is talking about. I've pasted in his arguments below. You need to register at this site, which takes only a few minutes, if you want to get...
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