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MEXICO CITY -- Braskem Idesa S.A.P.I. awarded to a joint venture formed by Odebrecht, Technip and ICA Fluor a contract worth more than US$ 2.7 billion for the engineering,

COATZACOALCOS, Mexico — Brakem Idesa, a joint venture between Brazilian petrochemical firm Braskem and Mexican group Idesa, has awarded a $2.7 billion contract to Odebrecht, Technip and ICA Fluor

DES PLAINES, Ill. — Honeywell’s subsidiary UOP has been selected to help produce key ingredients for fuels, synthetic rubber and plastics in China. China''s Heilongjiang Anruijia Petrochemical Co. will

HOUSTON — BASF Corp. and Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA have signed agreements to merge their joint ventures BASF FINA Petrochemicals Limited Partnership and Sabina Petrochemicals LLC to create

MOSCOW — Rosneft, Russia’s state-owned oil company, plans to invest $5.36 billion to build a petrochemical plant near the country’s borders with China and North Korea, Reuters reported. The

PORT ARTHUR, Texas — A 65-year-old contractor was killed Tuesday at the Total Petrochemicals & Refining Inc. plant in Port Arthur, Texas, when he became trapped as he was

YUNLIN, Taiwan — Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp. shut down its 300,000-metric-ton-a-year styrene monomer production plant in central Taiwan following a fire Sunday afternoon, Fox Business reported. The facility

MONACA, Pa. — Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett was joined last week by elected state officials and representatives of labor and business to highlight the importance of continued efforts to

KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Eastman Chemical Co. announced this week a joint venture with Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co. Ltd. to build a hydrogenated hydrocarbon resin plant in Nanjing, China. The

WASHINGTON — According to a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), “accidents” and other non-routine events at Texas oil and gas facilities, refineries and petrochemical plants released