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WORLD NEWS
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2019
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Kuwait |
KIPIC to
expand Al-Zour
refinery with
Honeywell UOP
technology
K
uwait Integrated Petroleum
Industries Co. (KIPIC) will use
Honeywell UOP to reconfigure
refining and petrochemicals
sections of its Al-Zour refinery.
The newly designed complex
will increase the plant’s output
capacity of fuels and
petrochemicals.
Honeywell UOP will revise the
configuration and capacity of the
refinery’s gasoline production
facilities, as well as supply
technology licenses, design
services, key equipment, and
state-of-the-art catalysts and
adsorbents to produce
clean-burning fuels, paraxylene,
propylene and other
petrochemicals.
“When completed, this will be
the largest integrated refinery and
petrochemicals plant ever
constructed in Kuwait,” said Bryan
Glover, Vice President and General
Manager, Petrochemicals & Refining
Technologies at Honeywell UOP. “In
addition to aromatics and
propylene, the Euro-V fuels it will
produce will be the cornerstone of
Kuwait’s clean fuels initiative.”
Asia |
LNG demand in South and Southeast Asia to quintuple by
2040
L
NG demand from the South and
Southeast Asia region will grow over
five times to reach 236 million tpy by
2040, according toWood Mackenzie.
The research and consultancy
group expects almost half of that
demand to come from Indonesia and
India. India’s demand is driven by
industrial and city gas, while
Indonesia’s is power-driven.
There is active interest in the
regasification terminals, but uncertainty
lies more in the downstream
connectivity. Some existing
regasification terminals face low
utilisation rates and will remain so
while awaiting pipeline connectivity
and demand growth in the long-term.
For Indonesia, LNG imports will
only be required in the 2030s, which
means in the near term, national oil
company (NOC) Pertamina will need to
manage its various purchase
commitments.
Worldwide |
IEA establishes Commission for
Urgent Action on Energy Efficiency
T
he International Energy Agency
(IEA) has established an
independent high-level global
commission to examine how progress
on energy efficiency can be rapidly
accelerated through new and stronger
policy action.
Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of
Ireland will be the honorary chair of
the IEA Commission for Urgent Action
on Energy Efficiency, composed of
government ministers, top business
executives and thought leaders from
around the world.
The members include current and
former ministers for energy and
environment from Denmark, Germany,
Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Morocco,
New Zealand and Spain. Dr Amani
Abou-Zeid, the African Union
Commissioner for Energy and
Infrastructure, and Dr Wan Gang, the
previous Chinese Minister of Science
and Technology, who is known as the
‘father of electric vehicles’ in China,
have also agreed to take part.
Mr Richard Bruton, Ireland’s Minister
of Communications, Climate Action
and Environment, will chair the
commission’s ongoing work. Business
leaders taking part include Ben van
Beurden, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell;
Lisa Davis, the Chief Executive of Gas
and Power at Siemens; and
Gil Quiniones, the President of the
New York Power Authority.
China |
World’s largest catalytic
dehydrogenation plant successfully
started up
M
cDermott International has
announced the recent successful
start-up of the world’s largest catalytic
dehydrogenation plant, which is
located at Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian)
Refinery Co. Ltd’s site in Liaoning
Province, China, and uses McDermott’s
Lummus CATOFIN® technology.
This single-train dehydrogenation
unit uses a CATOFIN catalyst and heat
generating material (HGM) from
Lummus Technology’s catalyst partner,
Clariant, to process 500 000 tpy of
propane and 800 000 tpy of
isobutene for the production of
propylene and isobutylene. In addition
to the technology licence,
McDermott also provided the process
design package, training, and technical
support for this plant.