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Stay up to date with the latest Africa and the Middle East updates from the global chemicals industryJapanese group secures contract for Angola facility
Sojitz, Sumitomo, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Toyo Engineering have won a 100bn yen ($1.3bn) contract to build a fertiliser plant in Angola,...
Cristal Global, Outotec to build ilmenite-processing plant
Cristal Global, an integrated chemical and pigments company, has partnered with Outotec to build a new fully scalable ilmenite-processing plant in Yanbu, Saudi...
FMC hikes soda ash prices in South Africa
FMC Wyoming has said that it will increase the price of its Grade 260 'dense' soda ash by $20 per ton for South African...
Saudi firm to build soda ash and calcium chloride complex
Saudi-based Idea Soda Ash and Calcium Chloride has announced that it will build a SAR1.1bn ($293m) soda ash and calcium chloride production facility in...
Maire Tecnimont wins Egyptian fertiliser plant contract
Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) has awarded an EGP700m ($120m) contract to Maire Tecnimont to execute civil, electromechanical and erection works for Egyptian Chemical Industries...
SABIC awards energy optimisation project to Toyo
Toyo Engineering has been awarded an energy optimisation project for SABIC's existing ammonia plant and package boilers at Al-Jubail Fertilizer (Al-Bayroni) in Saudi...
Oman Oil plans sulphur bentonite fertiliser expansion
Takamul Investment, the downstream investment arm of Oman Oil, is planning to double the capacity of its sulphur bentonite fertiliser project in Sohar by...
Hamdi Plans $1.4bn chemical plant in Jordan
Al Hamdi Group, a Saudi Arabian mining company, is set to build a $1.4bn chemical plant in...
SOCC breaks ground on Jubail aluminum alkyls facility
Saudi Organometallic Chemicals (SOCC), a 50-50 joint venture (JV) company owned by Albemarle Netherlands and SABIC affiliate Speciality Chem, has broken ground on a new aluminum...
Saudi Polymers to commence Jubail polyolefins complex operations
Saudi Polymers is planning to start operations at its new integrated polyolefins complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, within a month, after pending ongoing safety...
Qatar Petrochemical to Launch Polyethylene Plant Next Year
Qatar Petrochemical Company will launch its new low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plant, known as LDPE-3, in the first quarter of 2012. The plant is to be located in Mesaieed, Qatar, and...
Daelim Completes Construction of Chevron's Polymer Plant
Daelim Industrial has completed construction of Chevron Phillips' polymer plant in Saudi Arabia. The polymer plant will have a capacity of 1.7 million tons including 550,000t of...
Gulf Petrochemical Production to Rise
Annual petrochemical production in Gulf countries is expected to rise by 46% to 155 million tons a year by 2015, up from 105 million tons at present, according a report by the Gulf...
Nigeria to Build Petrochemical Plants
Nigeria has signed a memorandum of understanding with Xenel of Saudi Arabia and Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals of India to build petrochemical and fertiliser plants in the country. ...
Dhunseri Delays PET Plant Project in Egypt
Dhunseri Petrochem & Tea has delayed the construction of its proposed PET plant in Egypt for two months following turmoil in the country. Construction work of the plant is now scheduled...
Nigeria to Invest in Petrochemical and Fertiliser Plants
Nigeria is planning to spend $10bn of foreign investment to build ten new petrochemical and fertiliser plants, according to the Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. The projects...
Saudi Kayan Starts Trial Production of Polycarbonate in Jubail
Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company has started trial production of polycarbonate its petrochemicals complex in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. Once fully operational in 2013, the...
Jacobs Engineering Secures Epichlorohydrin Plant Contract
Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a contract to provide technical and project management services for Jubail Chemical Industrial Company's epichlorohydrin plants in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. ...
Saudi Arabia's Petrochemicals Export Rise
Saudi Arabia has reported a 2% increase in petrochemical exports in January 2011, compared with the same period in 2010. The country shipped 2.17 million tons of petrochemicals from its...
Iran's Petrochemical Output Rises
Iran's petrochemical output rose to 30 million tons in the first nine months of the 2010/11 financial year, a 24% increase on 2009/10, according to a report from Research and Markets. ...
