Chevron Phillips Chemical announces executive leadership change

Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem) has appointed Darren Ercolani as senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), effective 1 October, the US-based petrochemical company said.

He will succeed Carolyn Burke, who has resigned from the company effective 30 September.

Ercolani is currently senior vice president, business transformation. Before that, he held other roles at CP Chem, including general auditor, Asia-region controller, and CFO of the company’s Q-Chem joint venture in Qatar.

CP Chem also appointed Allison Martinez as senior vice president, business transformation and chief information officer, effective 1 October.

We remind, Air Liquide, Chevron, Keppel Infrastructure, and PetroChina announced they have signed an MoU to form a consortium which will aim to evaluate and advance the development of large-scale carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) solutions and integrated infrastructure in Singapore. The consortium intends to research, test, and develop technological, logistical, and operational solutions for CCUS in Singapore. In doing so, the consortium will look to provide industry-wide CCUS integrated infrastructure, primarily to support the energy and chemicals sector, by capturing and aggregating carbon dioxide (CO2) from large industrial emitters at a centralized collection facility.
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KBR announced that it has signed a master license and engineering agreement with Giammarco-Vertrocoke S.R.L. for KBR to license its carbon capture technology globally, said the company.

This carbon capture technology is well proven, energy efficient, flexible and can be integrated across the value chain for blue ammonia, petrochemical, and refining industries today.

“We are excited to enter into this agreement with Giammarco-Vetrocoke, as it enables us to integrate and deploy critical carbon capture solutions today to help our clients meet their sustainability targets,” said Doug Kelly, KBR President, Technology. “Further, by leveraging this solution across the breadth of our portfolio, we believe we can implement smart and efficient carbon capture solutions on both existing and new projects."

“Expanding our working relationship with KBR will grow our footprint in industries globally,” said Luigi Tomasi, General Manager, Giammarco-Vetrocoke. “This agreement aligns with Giammarco-Vetrocoke’s mission to reduce the impact of climate change by capturing as much CO2 as possible."

KBR strives to create a better, safer and more sustainable world and we are committed to developing sustainable solutions that meet the world’s most pressing challenges.

As MRC reported earlier, in July 2021, KBR was awarded technology licensing contracts by PKN Orlen for KBR's leading Solvent Deasphalting (SDA) and Residue Fluid Catalytic Cracking (RFCC) technologies as part of PKN's Bottom-of-the-Barrel project for its Plock Refinery in Poland.

KBR has nearly 50 years of experience designing, developing, and supporting cryogenic liquified natural gas facilities and has extensive experience in hydrogen both through its work in the space industry and in industrial facilities. This deep domain knowledge makes KBR ideally suited to provide high end engineering and be the integrator for cryogenic liquid hydrogen facilities.
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LyondellBasell announced a number of organisational changes and the creation of a circular and low carbon solutions business unit, said the company.

Effective 1 October, the company's business unit executive officers will be as follows:

Kimberly Foley, executive vice president, refining, intermediates and derivatives;
Kenneth Lane, executive vice president, olefins and polyolefins (O&P);
Torkel Rhenman, executive vice president, advanced polymer solutions;
James Seward, executive vice president and chief innovation officer;
Yvonne van der Laan, executive vice president, circular and low carbon solutions

To align business strategy with execution, LyondellBasell's business units will now have global responsibility for manufacturing operations.

Creating a new circular and low carbon solutions business unit will provide clear accountability and enable LyondellBasell to have a differentiated operating model, the company said.

The business unit will focus on growth of LyondellBasell's Circulen renewable and circular solutions, and it will accelerate the development of scalable sustainable and circular technologies, it said.

We remind, LyondellBasell announced that Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN S.A. (PKN ORLEN) will be using the LyondellBasell Lupotech T high-pressure polyethylene technology. The Lupotech T process technology will be used for a 250 kiloton per year (KTA) low density polyethylene (LDPE) line. The new line will be located at their existing complex in Plock, Poland.

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thyssenkrupp Uhde has won an order from Nippon Coke & Engineering Co., Ltd. (NCE) to build and supply a new low-emission, top-charge coke oven battery in Japan, said Hydrocarbonprocessing.

The new battery will be installed at the Kitakyushu works as a replacement for the existing battery 2A. The design will include thyssenkrupp Uhde’s proprietary EnviBAT system to reduce emissions during the coking process.

“With this state-of-the-art, low-emission plant, NCE and thyssenkrupp Uhde are delivering an important contribution to making the Japanese coke plant industry more environmentally friendly,” says Michael Petzinna, Executive Director of the Coke Plant & Inorganic Acids operating unit. “We look forward to continuing our collaboration and are proud to be contributing our decades of plant engineering and process know-how to the project."

The project is part of the modernization of NCE’s coke plants, which involves four coke oven batteries built in the 1970’s being shut down and replaced by new, state-of-the-art, low-emission systems.

Worth an amount in the double-digit million-euro range, the contract includes the provision of the technology and engineering, equipment procurement, supervision of construction and commissioning of the new plant.

“In thyssenkrupp we have selected a reliable partner for the EP pad-up project. The company combines extensive plant engineering experience with efficient technologies that meet and exceed the most exacting environmental standards,” said Mr. Hiroaki Matsuoka, Representative Director & President of Nippon Coke & Engineering at the contract signing.

We remind, thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions’ subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer signed a contract to build a new world-scale polymer plant for Yurek Polimer A.S.in Bursa, Turkey. The plant is planned to produce 300 metric tons per day (108,000 tons per year) of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for low viscosity applications. The PET melt produced by thyssenkrupp technology will then be converted into PET Chips, as well as pre-oriented yarn.
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TotalEnergies' 119,000 bpd Feyzin oil refinery in southern France is likely to remain offline until mid-October at the earliest, a CGT union delegate said on Monday, as per Reuters.

Feyzin was completely shut except for an alkylation unit on Sept. 16 after a leak at the fluid catalytic cracking unit and it is likely to remain closed for 4-6 weeks from that date, CGT union delegate Thierry Defresne said.

The outage means around 40% of France's refinery capacity is offline at a time where Europe is looking to ease its dependence on Russian refined products.

TotalEnergies did not respond to a request for comment.

ExxonMobil's 235,000 bpd Fos-Sur-Mer refinery and 240,000 bpd Port Jerome-Gravenchon oil refinery have been shut down since last week as a result of strike action.

We remind, TotalEnergies, along with its partners, has signed an Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) with the Ministry of Energy and Minerals (MEM) of the Sultanate of Oman in the onshore Block 11. The first stage of the EPSA activities will see seismic acquisition in late 2022, with a first exploration well planned to be drilled in 2023. TotalEnergies will hold a 22.5% interest in the block, OQ 10% and Shell with 67.5% will be the operator. Block 11 contains undeveloped discoveries and exploration potential.
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