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Northern Petrochemical Corp to build carbon-neutral ammonia, methanol plant

November 10, 2021 Energi Staff

Northern Petrochemical Corporation announced it will build a $2.5 billion carbon-neutral ammonia and methanol production facility near Valleyview, Alberta. According to a press release from the Government of Alberta, the facility will be the first [Read more]

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AB gov’t pens deal to help develop Greenview eco-industrial area

February 10, 2020 Energi Staff

The Alberta government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tri-Municipal Industrial Partnership, or TMIP, to coordinate the development of a new eco-industrial area in Greenview, south of Grande Prairie. According to a press [Read more]

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Petrochemical products in everyday life

October 17, 2018 Energi Staff

Petrochemical products are manufactured from raw materials (oil and natural gas) to feedstocks, basic chemicals, chemical intermediates (derivatives), and ultimately final products, including plastics, rubbers, resins, synthetic fibers, adhesives, dyes, detergents, pesticides, and petroleum-derived paints and [Read more]

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Teapot refineries consider shift to petrochemical complexes

September 17, 2018 Energi Staff

Some teapot refineries located in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong are hoping to shift into petrochemicals, but analysts are concerned they will face massive challenges in logistics and funding.   Teapot refineries squeezed by increased [Read more]

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Hengli petroleum complex to feed China’s demand for ethylene

September 11, 2018 Energi Staff

Hengli has a quota to import about 400,000 barrels per day (b/d), the most of any independent refiner in China.  It has signed contracts with Sinochem to import crude and export fuels and will work [Read more]

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Alberta ready to embark on significant downstream diversification into petrochemicals, partial upgrading of bitumen

February 26, 2018 Markham Hislop

Notley Government hopes for 2 to 5 partial upgraders representing up to $5 billion in private investment Alberta plans to spend $1 billion over eight years to boost commercialization of bitumen partial upgrading technology, just one [Read more]

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Time for an adult conversation about Canadian hydrocarbon, clean energy economies

January 28, 2018 Markham Hislop

Big Oil is shifting investment into expanding downstream (e.g. petrochemicals), clean energy technologies. What is Alberta waiting for? Follow the money. Always good advice, and if you want to know the direction the global energy [Read more]

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Done right, Alberta energy diversification strategy could actually work

January 9, 2017 JZadmin

Alberta energy diversification should include partial bitumen upgrading, petrochemicals, expansion of oilfield services/manufacturing Economic diversification rarely works. Canadian governments have wasted many billions over the decades, chasing this or that economic flavour of the week [Read more]

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Smith’s panel on Alberta’s energy future is a bad joke

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

“A new advisory panel will develop a long-term vision for Alberta’s energy future and recommend steps the province should take to ensure the industry [emphasis added] continues to thrive for decades to come.” Premier Danielle [Read more]

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