For ethylene producers, microeconomic factors (such as downtime for turnarounds and trends in production ... in crude oil demand. Despite Iran's threats during January 2012 to block the Strait ...

Steam cracking works by skipping the standard crude oil refining process by instead ... petrochemical products such as ethylene and propylene, cutting costs and production times as well as ...

A fully engineered, zonal-isolation process (EPP ... China, refinery, Sinopec demonstrated a new fluid-catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) catalyst that reduced the olefins content of its refinery's ...