Rosneft's Tuapse refinery to double output in May-sources

(Reuters) -- Tuapse refinery, owned by Russia's top crude producer Rosneft, is set to double refinery runs in May up to 700,000 tonnes a month after launching new crude distillation unit (CDU).

"The column (CDU) is ready, we will double the loadings starting from May, up to 650,000 - 700,000 tonnes," a source said. Rosneft declined an immediate comment.

So far, Tuapse refinery at the Black Sea has processed 4.5 million tonnes of crude oil a year. The new unit will boost the capacity to 12 million tonnes, making it one of Rosneft's biggest refineries.
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KBR to provide ethylene furnace for INEOS in Alvin, Texas

(finance) -- KBR announced today it will design and construct an ethylene furnace for INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA (INEOS) that upon commissioning will provide the highest achievable ethylene yields in the industry. The executed agreements with INEOS include provision of a technology license, engineering, procurement, supply of equipment and materials, and construction of the furnace.

The furnace design will add 465 million pounds per year of furnace production capacity to the INEOS Chocolate Bayou Works Olefins Complex in Alvin, Texas.

This furnace will use KBR's high-performance Selective Cracking and Optimum Recovery (SCORETM) ethylene technology and process NGL feedstocks. The furnace will also include KBR's latest generation Ultra Low NOx burner technology and a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) bed to reduce emissions of nitrous oxides.
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India's Nakoda to invest Rs 1,900-cr for expansion PET production


(projectsmonitor) -- India's Nakoda will double the polymerisation capacity at its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyester yarn plants at Surat in Gujaratto, west India, to 280,000 tonnes/year by 2015, its chairman and managing director said on Wednesday.

The Rs 1,935 crore expansion would be funded through internal accruals and the company proposes to raise debt of Rs 1,550 crore through term loans. The company has Rs 135 crore from its GDR proceeds which will also be utilised for its expansion.

Once completed, the expansion will enable the company to supply the entire range of polyester yarns in the domestic and international markets. Nakoda currently has a capacity to produce 50,000 TPA PET (polyethylene terephthalate) chips, 30,000 TPA of POY (partially oriented yarn) and 60,000 TPA of FDY (full draw yarn). It also has texturising facility of 30,000 tonnes.

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Sabic leverages resources

(sabic) -- Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic), in announcing Friday the start of work on a USD100 million technology center in Shanghai, is an extension of the petrochem giant's commitment in the further development of China industrial technology.

The latest development is considered as "the best possible leveraging of the investment Sabic is making."
Sabic ranks among the world's top petrochemical companies, and is a global market leader in the production of polyethylene, polypropylene, advanced thermoplastics, glycols, methanol and fertilizers.

Sabic earlier this year signed a cooperation agreement with Sinopec of China to explore new business. Sabic currently has plants in Shanghai and Guangzhou, and is building a USD2.7 billion joint venture facility in Tianjin with Sinopec, as well as a compounding plant in Chongqing.

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Showa Shell, Taiyo Oil, and GS Caltex to create world's largest p-xylene plant

(refinerynews) -- A three-way agreement was signed in Seoul for an expansion of para-xylene capacity at the Yeosu, Korea refining complex of GS Caltex (Seoul). The agreement was signed by Showa Shell Sekiyu (Tokyo), which operates Shell's oil products business in Japan; Taiyo Oil (Tokyo); and GS Caltex, a joint venture of GS Holdings (Seoul) and Chevron.

P-xylene capacity at the Yeosu site will be increased by 1 million m.t./year through the cooperation of the three companies, to 2.35 million m.t./year. Completion of the expansion is expected by the end of 2014, and it will make the Yeosu facility the world's largest p-xylene production plant at a single site, the companies say.


P-xylene is a basic feedstock for polyester, which is used to make fibers and polyethylene terephthalate bottles. The cooperation among the three refiners is expected to enhance the competitiveness of the p-xylene business, from feed sourcing and production to marketing. Demand for p-xylene is forecast to rise further in Asia, especially in China and India, the companies say.

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