1. Cai confirmed the company plans to undertake repairs on its residual oil processing unit this year and may repair its ethylene plant next year. 2. Dow Chemical Co. started up a new ethylene plant at its Freeport, Texas, plant in January. 3. Last summer, several big ethylene plants suffered from fires and floods, which reduced the availability of ethylene. 4. Now Edmond is a heat transfer engineer for Halliburton and is designing a furnace for an ethylene plant. 5. The joint venture with Fluor is designed to allow the companies to compete together for contracts to build ethylene plants and related petrochemical facilities. 6. The new ethylene plant will use propane and light naphtha as raw material. 7. It has plans to build facilities to produce MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether, and an ethylene plant. 8. Samsung Engineering and Construction said Thursday it will build an ethylene plant in Thailand for the Thai Petrochemical Industry Public. 9. Samsung Engineering and Construction said Friday it will build an ethylene plant in Thailand for the Thai Petrochemical Industry Public. 10. The US contractor Brown and Root will build the ethylene plant and Foster Wheeler Italiana the glycol ethylene facility. |