Sep 2, 2016
A slowdown in U.S. rail-freight transportation has done nothing to dampen enthusiasm for chemicals, which is one of just three commodity categories to enjoy an increase in rail traffic...
Sep 2, 2016
Estimated costs for ethane cracker projects are growing at a faster rate in the U.S. Northeast than on the Gulf Coast, according to Petrochemical Update’s US Ethylene Plant...
Sep 2, 2016
Petrochemicals news you need to know
Aug 19, 2016
Plastics production growth on the U.S. Gulf Coast is driving major infrastructure and efficiency upgrades at the Port of New Orleans and the Port of Charleston as they are preparing to...
Aug 19, 2016
Petroleum refiners in the United States and Canada are forecast to spend about $6 billion on new capital projects in 2016, said Chris Paschall, vice president of global research for...
Aug 19, 2016
Petrochemicals news you need to know
Jul 21, 2016
Building more natural gas liquid (NGL) storage facilities in the U.S. Northeast will help manage supply swings at ethane crackers and allow the NGL market in the region to take off,...
Jul 20, 2016
Total project cost estimates for a typical 1.5 million tonne per annum (mtpa) ethane cracker on the U.S. Gulf Coast are up 1.75% in the second quarter of 2016 compared with the...
Jul 14, 2016
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Jul 8, 2016
The market will have absorbed the additional supply of polyethylene from the first wave of U.S. Gulf Coast petrochemical projects by the time Shell Chemicals' ethane and...
