Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'refineries'
Reliance Goes Boldly
Source: ICIS By John Richardson Reliance Industries is going boldly (no split infinitives here) where nobody has gone before: It is to build a cracker, which could eventually produce 1.6m tonne/year of ethylene, based entirely on off-gas feedstock...
Is China getting serious?
By Malini Hariharan The Chinese government's position on environmental safety has always been difficult to read. The official position for the last few years has been to reduce pollution by closing down old factories and forcing companies to invest in...
Misplaced Euphoria Threatens Industry
By John Richardson THE euphoria sweeping through the US petrochemicals industry seems to indicate strong support for the "supercycle" theory. Some of the comments made during the first-quarter results season certainly point that way, as does the upbeat mood of...
Reliance Reveals Major Investment Plans
By Malini Hariharan India's Reliance Industries is evaluating investments in a number of chemicals including olefins and derivatives, acetyls, elastomers and fibre intermediates to increase its petrochemicals production from crude, a senior company executive has told the...
China Economic Hype And Crude Oil
Let's catch the bus from now on.... Source of picture: hybridcars.com By John Richardson THE blog has long been worried about the difficulty, probably the impossibility, of accurately measuring real Chinese growth. And it gets harder as the country...
Propylene And the Law Of Unintended Consequences
Will this year's K-Fair see some major announcements to take advantage of the relative fall in ethylene costs? Source of picture; http://www.k-online.de/ By John Richardson THE rise in the price of propylene relative to ethylene is exercising the minds...
Asia Resurgent On Refinery Integration
Source of picture: omniglobal.com By John Richardson A FASCINATING theme to emerge from last week's Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference (APIC) in Mumbai was a growing belief in refinery integration in Asia as a means of being able to...
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