Articles tagged Feedstock

Petrochemical giant Dow Inc. said lower North American natural gas prices are driving an expansion of operations. Meanwhile in Europe, “right-sizing” the footprint “is necessary” with industrial demand still 25% off pre-pandemic levels.

Mexican national oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and Braskem Idesa have reached agreement on an ethane supply deal, bringing to an end a year-long dispute that threatened to shutter the largest petrochemicals operation in Latin America.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) plans to issue monthly reports that expand upon biofuels data.

Braskem Idesa said Thursday it had partially restored operations at the Etileno XXI polyethylene complex in Mexico’s Veracruz state.

The American Gas Association (AGA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) this month issued contrasting pictures of the future of natural gas as a major U.S. fuel source.

Mexico’s energy reforms, in combination with the expansion of the Panama Canal, have reconfigured the fortunes for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), according to an analysis by IHS Markit.

Global ethylene demand will grow by about 90 million tons (60%) over the next 15 years, and "the U.S. Gulf Coast is in pole position for this feedstock-driven capacity growth," the CEO of a logistics provider to the chemical industry told a Houston audience Wednesday.

The U.S. plastics industry is expected to grow rapidly over the next decade, fueled by cheap and abundant shale natural gas that's made it more competitive with overseas markets, according to a report by economists at the American Chemistry Council (ACC).

The U.S. plastics industry is expected to grow rapidly over the next decade, fueled by cheap and abundant shale natural gas that's made it more competitive with overseas markets, according to a report by economists at the American Chemistry Council (ACC).

In an industry in which low-cost feedstock is key, North Dakota's wealth of natural gas liquids (NGL) makes the state a natural candidate for the development of downstream opportunities in the chemicals industry and all of its offshoots, a researcher/consultant said Wednesday at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, ND. Ultimately, the model is to do what Alberta, Canada did two decades ago and bring in global partners already in the chemical business.