(Petrobras, 22.Dec.2020) — Petrobras informs that it has signed new long-term contracts with Braskem S.A. to supply petrochemical naphtha to the industrial unit in the state of São Paulo and to supply ethane and propane to the industrial unit in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The naphtha contract, in […]
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Braskem Announces Research Partnership
(Braskem, 14.Dec.2020) — Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and a leading producer of biopolymers in the world, has joined forces with the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) to develop a new route for producing ethylene, a raw material used to make thermoplastic resins. This route will use […]
Heard Mexico: Braskem Ideas Shuts PE Complex
(Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Dec.2020) — Brazilian-based Braskem Idesa has shut down its Ethylene XXI polyethylene (PE) complex in the city of Coatzacoalcos, after a Mexican state energy agency shut off natural gas supplies from state owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). __________ By Ian Silverman. © Energy Analytics Institute (EAI). All Rights […]