ナイジェリア

    Eleme Petrochemicals company

 

アルジェリア

インド系インドネシア企業、ナイジェリアの国営石油化学を買収へ

アルゼンチン

Argentina Petrobras Energia Buys Ethylene Plant from ICI

Repsol YPF sells Argentina PP JV stake to Basell for $58-mil

Argentina PVC maker Solvay Indupa buys Brazilian HDPE producer

Solvay Indupa mulls loan for PVC expansion in Brazil

コロンビア

Ecopetrol to Buy Petchem Producer Propilco (Colombia)

ペルー

Petrobras reaffirms partnership in Peru

Petroperu says looking to partner with Reliance on oil, petchems

SK Energy eyes investments in Peru, in talks on petchem project

Braskem, Petroperu to Sign Petrochemical Letter

Braskem, Petrobras and PetroPeru sign agreement to study an integrated petrochemical project in Peru

Peru Petrochemicals 2011

ベネズエラ

Venezuela approves $3.3-bil in funding for petrochemical projects

Venezuela removes ExxonMobil from $3-bil Jose petchem JV:Pequiven

China and Venezuela could build petrochemical plant at Paraguana

VenezuelaPVCと「石油セメント」で住宅建設

ベネズエラ石油公社、日米伊露などと天然ガス事業で合意

ブラジル/ベネズエラ

Pequiven signs MoU with Braskem for polyolefins, fertilizers

Braskem, Pequiven sign joint ventures to develop Jose complex

Construction of Pequiven-Braskem olefins plant to begin in 2009

INEOS Technologies sells two licences of polyolefins to Polimerica ( a jv between Pequiven and Braskem)

Braskem, PDVSA planning 1.2-million mt/yr Venezuela cracker

Braskem in talks with third parties on Venezuela olefins project

Braskem and Pequiven Announce the Creation of Companies to Install Petrochemical Projects in Venezuela

Braskem delays construction of two plants in Venezuela

Braskem approves Green Polyethylene Project

ブラジル   各社

Petrobras, partners to build $490-mil PTA plant in NE Brazil

Petrobras says new Rio petchem complex, refinery to cost $3.5-bil

Petrobras, Braskem seek to build joint PTA plant in Bahia

Italy's M&G to build world scale PTA plant in Brazil

    Suzano

Basell とのJVPolibrasil 100%子会社化
RiopolPetroflexPoliteno

Polibrasil plans to increase PP capacity

Brazil's Braskem says PP, PVC expansion still on track

Polibrasil interested in US$160mn Petrobras PP JV

Petrobras Says It Will Operate Proposed Border PC Complex

M&G, Petrobras consider building $800-mil JV PET plant in Brazil

Chevron Phillips Licenses Its PE Technology to Polietilenos Uniao S.A.

Reichhold Acquires Brazilian Resin Manufacturer IBR

Brazil's Innova to double styrene output at Triunfo

Brazil eyes rapid ethanol exports boost, Petrobras eyes pipeline

  Petrobras planning $500-mil ethanol pipeline network by 2008

Solvay Indupa launches ambitious plan to expand and upgrade vinyls production in Brazil

Solvay Indupa mulls loan for PVC expansion in Brazil

DJ Brazil Braskem Studies Ethanol As Base For Plastics

Petrobras, Ultra Group and Braskem conclude deal to purchase Ipiranga Group

Braskem has the first certified green Polyethylene in the World

Brazil's Petrobras says to buy Suzano petrochem firm

Braskem to boost stake in synthetic rubber-maker Petroflex

Petrobras reaffirms partnership in Peru

Petrobras, Unipar Plan New Brazilian Chemical Company

Petrobras restructures its investments in petrochemicals

Petrobas In Talks To Acquire Remaining 50 Percent Stake In Texas Refinery

China's Sinopec signs Brazil pipeline construction deal with Petrobras

Braskem Announces the Conclusion of the Acquisition of Ipiranga Group Petrochemical Assets

Braskem achieves new technological advance for production of green polymers

Petrobas president details Brazilian expansion plans for PE, PP and PET

Braskem Starts Up New Plant for the Production of 350,000 Tons of Polypropylene in Paulinia

Braskem, Petroperu to Sign Petrochemical Letter

Braskem, Petrobras and PetroPeru sign agreement to study an integrated petrochemical project in Peru

Braskem to produce green plastic at the Triunfo Complex

双日、ブラスケム社とバイオETBEの長期売買契約を締結

Brazil Expands Investment in Offshore Drilling Projects

Braskem: Acquisition of Petroquímica Triunfo

Braskem and Novozymes to make green PP

Braskem to acquire naphtha made from post-consumption recycled plastic

Braskem to buy Dow's polypropylene business

Braskem inaugurates PVC plant

Braskem announces acquisition of Solvay Indupa

メキシコーブラジル

Braskem Announces New Petrochemical Project in Mexico

Braskem signs $2.5bn deal with Pemex

メキシコ

2008/2/23 メキシコ政府、第二のPhoenix project 開始

Mexico's Grupo Carso sells PVC unit Primex to rival Mexichem

ICA Fluor awarded $108 MM US contract by Indelpro to build a PP plant in Mexico

東欧

    BorsodChem

Hungary BorsodChem to test VCM plant, negotiates ethylene supply

  Permira investment fund may take majority in Hungary's BorsodChem

  Hungarian chemicals company BorsodChem to sell its PVC business

Hungary TVK

Polish Dwory buys Czech producer Kaucuk for $267 million

PKN ORLEN begins construction of the PTA Plant

Abu Dhabi's IPIC and Borealis to conduct FS for the construction of a world-scale Fertiliser complex in Uzbekistan

 

African Chemicals Overview

南アフリカ

    Sasol



August 5, 2005 British Plastics & Rubber

Basell's Spheripol PP process

Polibrasil plans to increase the capacity of its plant in Maua', state of Sa^o Paulo, Brazil, in two stages. The first phase, scheduled for completion in early 2007, will increase the plant's capacity from 240,000 to 360,000 tonnes; the second phase, scheduled for completion by 2008, will increase capacity to 450,000 tonnes.


Platts 2006/1/20

Venezuela approves $3.3-bil in funding for petrochemical projects

Venezuela has approved funds totaling more than $3.3-bil for the construction of half a dozen new petrochemical plants, part of a medium term plan to double output in the sector, President Hugo Chavez said Friday.

計画 当事者 立地 投資額
propylene   El Tablazo $350-mil
PP $125-mil
PE 拡張 Pequiven El Tablazo $185-mil
ethylene 1,050 m t/y   Jose $1,596-mil
PE  1,050 m t/y
fertilizer plant   Moron $150-mil
fertilizer plant   Jose $550-mil
ammonium nitrate plant   Jose $355-mil

     Pequiven /ExxonMobil JV Jose)取り止め

Platts 2006/2/7

Venezuela removes ExxonMobil from $3-bil Jose petchem JV:Pequiven

Venezuela's state petrochemical company Pequiven has ended its agreement with US major ExxonMobil to construct a $3-bil olefins plant at Jose, a company source said Tuesday.

ExxonMobil has been at odds with Venezuela's left-wing government ever since taxes were raised on its Cerro Negro extra heavy oil upgrading plant. Last year, ExxonMobil was the only foreign oil company in Venezuela that refused to convert its operating contract into a joint venture with state oil company PDVSA, preferring instead to sell its share to Spain's Repsol YPF.


Platts 2006/1/23

Brazil's Innova to double styrene output at Triunfo

Brazilian styrene and polystyrene producer Innova was planning to undertake a two-year, $168-mil expansion at its Triunfo plant in southern Brazil, aiming to double production capacity
to 500,000 mt/yr


Platts 2006/3/6

Petrobras, Braskem seek to build joint PTA plant in Bahia

Brazilian oil-giant
Petrobras and Latin America's largest resins maker Braskem are negotiating a partnership for a new $350-mil purified terephthalic acid plant in Brazil's northeastern state in Bahia, according to a report in Monday's Valor Economico daily. The plant could produce 500,000 mt/year by 2011.

The PTA plant would feed a
planned expansion in PET production by Braskem, the central player at the Bahia-based Camacari petrochemicals complex, the report said, citing Petrobras's supply director Paulo Roberto Costa and a Braskem executive, Alexandrino Alencar. Currently, Braskem produces 80,000 mt/year of PET at Camacari, using dimethyl terephthalate feedstock.


Platts 2006/3/8

Argentina PVC maker Solvay Indupa buys Brazilian HDPE producer

In a statement,
Indupa, a unit of Belgium's Solvay Group, said it is financing the purchase of Santo Andre-based Solvay Polietileno out of its own resources. It is buying the company from its Brazilian subsidiary Solvay Indupa do Brasil. Indupa said it plans to cut Solvay Polietileno's HDPE output at its 60,000 mt/yr plant in Santo Andre to 20,000-30,000 mt/yr, making it possible to use more of the ethylene for making PVC at Solvay Indupa do Brasil's 236,000 mt/yr PVC facility, also in Santo Andre.


Platts 2006/4/6

Argentina PVC maker Indupa injects $15-mil into Brazilian unit

Argentina's Solvay Indupa has made a $15 million capital injection into Solvay Indupa do Brasil, the company said Wednesday.

Last year Indupa made capital injections of $25 million and $7 million respectively into the Brazilian subsidiary so it could meet growth goals, pay down debt and
expand the production capacity of its 236,000 mt/year PVC plant at Santo Andre.


Platts 2006/3/28

Petrobras says new Rio petchem complex, refinery to cost $3.5-bil

Petrobras said the first stage of the refinery and petrochemical project will involve building associated plants with capacity to produce
1.3 million mt/year of ethylene, 900,000 mt/year of propylene, 360,000 mt/year of benzene, and 700,000 mt/year of p-xylene, coke and fuels.


Platts 2006/4/12

Petrobras, partners to build $490-mil PTA plant in NE Brazil

Petrobras petrochemicals arm Petroquisa, along with partners from Citene holding (Vicunha Textil, Polyenka and FIT), said late Tuesday they plan to spend $490 million to build a purified terephthalic acid plant at Pernambuco state in northeast Brazil.

Petroquisa said in a statement made to the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange, that the plant will produce
550,000 mt/year of PTA with start-up planned for 2009. Petroquisa said the venture would be a 50:50 partnership between itself and Citene and apparently not Italian petrochemicals giant M&G, which is building one of the world's largest PET plants nearby and had earlier expressed interest in joining in the project to produce the required PTA feedstock.


Platts 2006/4/17

Braskem, PDVSA planning 1.2-million mt/yr Venezuela cracker

Braskem SA, Latin America's largest plastic resins maker, said it plans to team with Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA to build a natural gas-fired cracker to produce about
1.2 million mt/year of ethylene, in an investment worth $1.5-2.5 billion.


Platts 2006/7/10

Permira investment fund may take majority in Hungary's BorsodChem

Luxembourg's Kikkolux has signed an option agreement on July 6 to acquire up to a 47.99% stake in Hungarian chemicals producer BorsodChem, Kikkolux said in a statement on Monday. This would represent a 52.05% voting stake in the company.

In its letter Kikkolux expressed its intention to launch a
public takeover offer to acquire the outstanding shares in BorsodChem subject to the satisfactory completion of a full scale due diligence of BorsodChem and the availability of financing.


Platts 2006/9/5

Permira subsidiary to go ahead with Hungary's BorsodChem takeover


BorsodChem is central Europe's largest producer of PVC and isocyanates. The company would be looking to boost TDI output from the current 80,000 mt/year to 260,000 mt/year, and MDI from 140,000 kt/year to 360,000 kt/year, by 2012. In addition, the company has invested in a new membrane-cell electrolysis plant with 120,000 mt/yr capacity (test production on first 80,000 mt was done in April, another 40,000 mt in October 2006), and was in the process of expansion of PVC capacity from 365,000 mt to 400,000 mt/yr (test in September). Total capital expenditure in 2006 would reach around Forint 25 billion, the company said earlier.


2006/8/23 Platts

China and Venezuela could build petrochemical plant at Paraguana

China and Venezuela could build a petrochemical plant together at Venezuela's Paraguana refining complex, Pequiven president Saul Ameliach said Wednesday in a press statement.

According to an agreement that Ameliach plans to sign with China, both Pequiven and Chinese petrochemical company NPC(PetroChina) would invest in the plant, Ameliach said. "China has made great advances in the area of petrochemical refining," Ameliach said in the statement.


日本経済新聞 2006/8/25

ベネズエラと中国 石油中心に関係強化 首脳会談で合意 政経で協力拡大

 中国の胡錦濤国家主席は24日、北京訪問中のベネズエラのチャベス大統領と人民大会堂で会談し、政治、経済など多方面での協力拡大で合意した。中国中央テレビが伝えた。中国は世界有数の産油国であるベネズエラとの関係強化で石油の安定確保を目指す。反米派のチャベス大統領と協調を図り、米一極主義をけん制する狙いもある。


2006/9/19 Dow Jones

DJ Brazil Braskem Studies Ethanol As Base For Plastics
http://www.theplasticsexchange.com/Public/News_Template.aspx?Buffer=&Id=902

Brazil's largest petrochemicals company Braskem is studying the possibility of producing plastics from a base of ethanol instead of petroleum, in order to prepare for a prolonged stint of steep oil prices in the future, a company spokesman said Tuesday.



Last month, representatives of U.S. engineering company Scientech Inc. and Indian polyester giant JBF Industries visited Brazil - the world's top sugar and ethanol exporter - in order to assess the construction of a possible $200 million plastics and polyester plant in Sao Paulo, also using ethanol as a base.

The technology for making plastics from ethanol has already existed in Brazil for a couple of decades, say local scientists.

 


Platts 2007/8/30

Chavez unveils PVC plant at Guacara, Carabobo

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez unveiled "Petro Casa," a plant in Guacara, Carabobo state, that manufactures PVC kits used to assemble 18,000 houses each year, a venture of state petrochemical company Pequiven, during a speech.

The factory uses some 30,000 tons a year to make the 18,000 kits, he detailed. The whole house, foundations, service fixtures and all, can be assembled in eight days or less.


Even the cement used to fill the house's panels is manufactured by Pequiven from some 80 million tons in by products that resulted from fertilizers' manufacturing. "(About) 80% of those residues can be made into cement," Pequiven president Saul Ameliach said.

The "Petrocemento" will be sold to the general public for about 2,500 Bolivares (around $1 at the official exchange rate) a 42.5-kilo bag, much less than the 16,000 Bolivares a sack commanded by Portland-type cement.


2007/07/28 Mathaba News Network

National Executive boosts PVC housing production

The National Executive expects to increase productive capacity of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) housing in order to generate 100 thousand houses of this material in one year, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias, said.

During the opening act of the Petrochemical Corporation of Venezuela (Petrocasa), in Carabobo State, Chavez talked about the need of building a company with similar characteristics in the South of the country.

It is part of the new national strategy: to stretch the arms, to carry development capacity nationwide, he pointed out.

Chavez stated that the construction of houses with PVC is favored by the existence of wide gas reserves, like those in the Orinoco
s Oil Belt, because this material is a hydrocarbon derivative.

It is a house that will last 100 years. It is a strong house. It costs 50% less than market prices, he underscored.

He also mentioned other possibilities to use the PVC in infrastructures like buildings and schools, due to the ease offered by this material and the thermal isolation, allowing to keep fresh the spaces.

Moreover, Chavez announced the construction of eight housing complex in Carabobo, in which have been invested Bs. 173 billion (about US$ 80 million).

It has to arrive the day when there will not be a single shack in Venezuela. Decent people have to have decent houses, he said.


September 19, 2003 Solvin

Thailand - Houses built nearly entirely with PVC

Located in the Nakornpatom Province, at 50 Km west of Bangkok, in the central part of Thailand, a PVC house has been erected by the People Co., Ltd Company, a producer of rigid PVC and PVC wood composites.

With the exception of the steel and concrete structure of pillars and floor, this two story building (6 meters high, 30 x 15 meters on the ground) is completely made of PVC and PVC composites. 

Rigid PVC is used for the doors and window frames. A PVC wood composite replaces standard wood applications: cornice, cove, inner partition, cladding, façade, wood sidings, wall skirt, parquet floor, ceiling material and the inside furniture. 

The PVC house has been made for office and residential purposes, but is also used as a show case of the multiple uses of PVC in a building.

It is perfectly representative of the traditional Thai style, where most of the houses are made of wood. Combining the appearance of wood with the qualities of PVC is particularly well-advised under this climate conditions. For example, the cornice will be valuable and beautiful forever as it is durable, termite and water resistant, light weight, and easy to install by carpenters. It can be already delivered in the right color, not requiring any painting.

Moreover, its heat resistance to the outside temperature is 30% higher than concrete wall.

 


Platts 2007/10/11

Petroperu says looking to partner with Reliance on oil, petchems

Peruvian state oil company Petroperu and India's Reliance Industries have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore possible cooperation in exploration, extraction, refining and petrochemicals production activities in Peru, the president of Petroperu Cesar Gutierrez told Platts Thursday.

He said that the companies may participate in efforts
to extract heavy crude oil in Barrett's block 67 in the northeastern Peruvian jungle.

As for refining, Gutierrez said that Reliance was also interested in the plans to revamp
Peru's 62,500 b/d Petroperu's Talara refinery to process heavier crudes from the Peruvian jungle that are currently exported. The plans also call for expanding the refinery to 100,000 b/d of capacity. .

Gutierrez said that Reliance and Petroperu will also look at
joint petrochemical projects, but on a longer term horizon. Petroperu already has a partnership with Brazilian state controlled oil company Petrobras for the possible development of a petrochemical complex based on methane, he said.

The agreement with Reliance is to explore petrochemical projects
based on ethane, he added.


2007/10/1 Petrobras

Petrobras reaffirms partnership in Peru

The partnership signed by Petrobras, Peruvian state owned company Petroperu, and Perupetro (the sectors promoter and regulator in Peru) last September, has been extended for one more year seeking to promote new investments in Peru.

The companies committed to undertake studies to promote and facilitate investments in hydrocarbon exploration, production, transportation, refining and distribution in Peru. The studies are being coordinated by a negotiation committee composed of representatives of the parts. Possible projects to be executed must be previously approved by PetrobrasSenior Administration and by Petroperus Board of Directors.

 


 

2006 /9/27 Petrobras

Petrobras signs an agreement with Peruvian national oil companies to develop business in Peru
The Memorandum establishes that Petrobras and Petroperu will evaluate, among others, projects such as:
  • Talara Refinery enhancement and modernization to produce low-sulfur content fuels and to control particle emissions, according to the global trends in the sector.
  • Investments in the distribution and marketing segment, covering the pump and service station chain through fuel and lubricant distribution and marketing.
  • Bayóvar Terminal enhancement, including as a distribution and mix center, taking advantage of potential synergy and integration of the Pacific Coast in South America.
  • Natural gas use in transportation projects, for LNG, GTL, and petrochemicals.
  • Development of biodiesel and ethanol projects to allow diversification in the country's energy matrix.
  • Evaluation of opportunities in hydrocarbon exploration and explotation activities, including in deep waters and at onshore areas that have been underexplored.