Petrochemicals – News and Features

Company announced it has signed a letter of intent with RMBI International to perform a feasibility study related to the construction of a small scale, modular gas-to-liquids ("GTL") facility located at the company's Houston Clean Energy Park.

Contract issued to Albemarle to process first run of N-butanol into jet fuel.

The report, based on three years of monitoring, found a number of potentially toxic petroleum hydrocarbons in the air near the wells including benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene and xylene.

Liquefaction plant is to be delivered early 2013.

Acquisition of the Petrotest Group.

Analytik announces a new arrangement to become sole value added resellers in the UK and Ireland for Agilent Technologies' portable and handheld FTIR spectrometers.

Researchers are making a connection between prehistoric times and the present -- ancient algae that can produce their own biofuel -- that could result in genetically creating a replacement for oil and coal shale deposits. Their discovery could have fundamental implications for the future of Earth's energy supplies.

Using electron crystallography scientists have determined that a new zeolite has a unique structure containing discrete pores of different dimensions that are connected together.

Most deisel-production by-products have little practical use. Researchers at Cardiff University have found a potential route for upgrading these by-products into useful chemicals.

Analytical Pixels launched to design, manufacture, and commercialize analysis systems based on new concept of miniaturized chromatography.