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Business Trends: Global petrochemical overview—Part 2
Part 1 of this series provided an overview on the present state of the petrochemical industry, a breakdown on construction project numbers by region, as well as major trends in Africa, the Middle East and the US. Part 2 examines the landscape in Asia-Pacific, Canada, Europe and Latin America.
Global Project Data
According to <i>Hydrocarbon Processing’s</i> Construction Boxscore Database, nearly 300 new downstream projects have been announced around the globe over the past year.
Editorial Comment: Despite uncertainty, global petrochemical capacity continues to rise
Over the past several years, the world has witnessed the announcement of a massive amount of new petrochemical capacity.
Business Trends: Global petrochemical overview—Part 1
This series examines the global petrochemical landscape, new project developments and regional outlooks.
Global Project Data
This month’s installment of Global Project Data focuses on the global petrochemical sector.
Business Trends
This month’s Business Trends focuses on five major trends affecting the downstream industry. These include: a forecast on global demand for industrial valves to 2020, how the approval of Chinese teapot refinery crude import licenses could lead to a fuel supply glut, the surge in US ammonia and urea plant construction, the start of Nigeria’s DSDP program and the consolidation of Japan's refining industry.
Global Project Data
Presently, Hydrocarbon Processing’s Construction Boxscore Database is tracking over 2,100 projects around the world.
2016 Industry Leaders’ Viewpoints—Part 2
Industry leaders and esteemed colleagues shared their viewpoints on 2016 and beyond with Hydrocarbon Processing.
Editorial Comment: A low-sulfur world
As the world continues to welcome more vehicles on the road, and as emerging economies invest in civil, industrial and energy projects, global fuels demand is forecast to increase through the end of the decade.
Business Trends: Clean fuels—a global shift to a low-sulfur world
New technologies are helping move refiners to a low-sulfur world, while revised fuel standards are catalysts for more clean fuels projects to develop higher-quality transport fuel.
- BASF starts up the world’s first production plant for 3D-printed catalysts in Ludwigshafen 3/19
- Haffner Energy receives rapid bookings for CORE100 clean-fuel production units 3/19
- ABB launches EmissionVision to automate advanced gas leak detection 3/19
- Ebara Elliott Energy partners with NuScale Power for use of advanced nuclear technology to power petrochemical plants 3/19
- bp agrees to sell 12-MMtpy Gelsenkirchen refinery to Klesch Group 3/19
- Sumitomo Corporation, “K” LINE and NYK Line conclude MoU for new build ammonia bunkering vessel operation in Singapore 3/19
