Hydrocarbon Engineering

INEOS Inovyn has confirmed that it has agreed to acquire the remaining 50% shareholding in Runcorn MCP Ltd, together with the assets and employees associated with ethylene dichloride production at Runcorn from Vynova Runcorn Ltd, UK.

Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. is set to inaugurate its new phenol and acetone manufacturing facility in October 2026, West Bengal, India, according to various media outlets.

The AFPM has gathered the following perspectives from analysts and reporters to help explain why fuel prices today are not moving in lockstep with crude oil prices, and why refining capacity has become one of the most important factors shaping what consumers pay at the pump.

In the August issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering, Luis Alberto Torres-Morales, Jorge Luis Cabrera-Amador, and Leandro Ruiz-Ruiz, Braskem Idesa, alongside Ian Buttridge and David Lin, GTI Solutions, discuss how optimised demethanisers design can reduce methane slip and improve energy efficiency, with a particular focus on two retrofit projects.

Ebara Elliott Energy and Doosan Enerbility have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-develop advanced gas turbine-driven centrifugal compressors for the LNG industry.