Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'feedstock advantage'

Constant Search For Feedstock Advantage

By John Richardson AROUND $6bn worth of proposed petrochemical investments in Kazakhstan - the giant central Asian country with abundant oil and gas reserves - once again confirms the three most important factors for success: Feedstock, feedstock and feedstock. "The...

Will Three Still End Up As One in Qatar?

By John Richardson SHELL Chemicals announcement that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a cracker and derivatives project in Qatar seems to have upped the ante in what could be a struggle for only one parcel of...

Qatar Petroleum buys into Singapore petchems

Just picked up on the interesting news (not sure how big a deal this is) after attending one of those long interminably-long internal planning meetings. But on this occasion we at least were discussing something useful - not just...