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Stay up to date with the latest Africa and the Middle East updates from the global chemicals industryMethanol Chemicals Company to build new SNF plant
Saudi Arabia's Methanol Chemicals Company is planning to construct a new plant, to expand its production capacity of sulphonated naphthalene formaldehyde (SNF)...
Indorama licenses KBR ammonia technology for Nigerian plant
Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals has selected KBR to provide ammonia technology for its planned grassroots ammonia plant to be located in Port Harcourt,...
QAFCO unveils Qafco-5 fertiliser project in Mesaieed, Qatar
QAFCO has launched the $3.2bn Qafco-5 project in the industrial city of Mesaieed, Qatar, to produce ammonia and...
BASF opens CSB production plant in Kingdom of Bahrain
BASF has opened a new production facility for customer specific antioxidant blends (CSB) in the Kingdom of...
Toyo to construct Indorama urea plant in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Toyo Engineering and its consortium partner Daewoo Nigeria have received a letter of award from Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals to construct single train urea plant in Port Harcourt...
Petrofac wins Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery EPC contracts
Petrofac has received two engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts from Saudi Aramco to work on the Jazan Refinery and Terminal project in Saudi...
Ma'aden grants phosphate PMC contract to Fluor
Fluor Corporation has received a project management consulting (PMC) services contract from the Saudi Arabian Mining Company...
KNPC awards PMC contract to AMEC for Kuwait oil refinery
Engineering and project management company AMEC has received a $528m (£330m) project management consultancy (PMC) contract from the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) for a new...
SAMAPCO, Saudi banks sign agreements for petrochemical project
Sahara Petrochemicals Company's affiliate, Sahara and Maaden Petrochemicals Company (SAMAPCO), has signed financing agreements to the tune of SAR1980.75m...
Songwon Additive Technologies, Polysys Industries to establish company
Songwon Additive Technologies and Polysys Industries will establish a new company, to be called Polysys Additive Technologies...
Wacker expands technical centre at Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO)
German chemical company Wacker has expanded the service portfolio at its technical centre at the Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) technology...
Qapco unveils Qatar-based LDPE 3 plant
Qatar Petrochemical Company (Qapco) has started activities at its third low density polyethylene plant (LDPE 3) located in Mesaieed Industrial...
GGOEX to construct $700m Nigerian methanol plant
Gulf of Guinea Oil Exploration (GGOEX) is planning to construct a $700m methanol plant at the Gas Industrial Park in Delta State, Nigeria, in 2015 to produce 850,000mtpa of...
Zuari Agro Chemicals to build fertiliser plant in UAE
Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Maritime City has entered into an agreement with Zuari Agro Chemicals to construct an $800m diammonium phosphate (DAP) fertiliser manufacturing plant in the...
Sipchem begins construction of EVA films project
Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) has started the construction of its ethyl-vinyl acetate (EVA) films project in Hail Industrial City, Saudi...
Iran revokes restrictions on petrochemical exports
The Government of Iran has lifted the recently announced ban on the export of...
QAPCO to open Qatar-based LDPE 3 facility
The Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) will open its QAR 2.3bn ($623m) low density polyethylene (LDPE) 3 petrochemical facility on 20 November 2012 at Mesaieed Industrial...
Iran's Government bans petrochemical exports
The Government of Iran has reportedly banned the export of petrochemical products, which also includes polymers to support national production, according to the Islamic Republic News...
Sasol launches LAN plant in South Africa
Sasol Nitro has commenced its new R1bn ($114) limestone ammonium nitrate (LAN) granulation plant with a capacity of 400,000tpa of production in Secunda, Mpumalanga, South...
Samsung Engineering to expand Luberef's Yanbu refinery
Korea-based Samsung Engineering has received the Yanbu refinery expansion project worth $871m from Luberef (the Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining...
