Middle East & Africa

LONDON (ICIS)–Chemicals sectors in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are likely to claw back some of the ground lost this year in 2021, but the oversupply weighing on commodity chemicals…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

LONDON (ICIS)–Fertilizer Exchange, a new platform backed by industry players is set to start up in the first quarter of 2021, using digital-based blockchain technology, its founders said on…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

Balance in the crude oil market remains under threat as US production breaks 11m bbl/day and OPEC+ decides to increase output by 500k bbl/day from January. A widespread distribution of a vaccine to…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

SINGAPORE (ICIS)–Saudi Arabia’s Advanced Petrochemical plan to build a new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit and a polypropylene (PP) plant in Al Jubail. Its 85%-owned subsidiary Advanced…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

NEW YORK (ICIS)–Saudi Aramco is targeting chemicals investments in India and China as part of its global integrated oil-to-downstream chemicals strategy, its CEO said on Thursday. While short-term…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

LONDON (ICIS)–Click here to see the latest blog post on Asian Chemical Connections. The four megatrends – sustainability, the pandemic, demographics and geopolitics – are reshaping how…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

The automotive industry has an important relationship with the chemicals sector while remaining an instrumental force on the global economy as an employment-intensive sector. In a fast-changing…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

SINGAPORE (ICIS)–State oil and gas firm Saudi Aramco on Monday announced an expansion to a program which aims at boosting industrial and digital capabilities in Saudi Arabia. The expansion to the…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

LONDON (ICIS)–Click here to see the latest blog post on Asian Chemical Connections. Polypropylene (PP) and styrene monomer (SM) exporters to China need to diversify downstream. This is one answer…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east

SINGAPORE (ICIS)–The acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) market has seen prices rise in both the Asian and US markets due to strong demand and tight supply. In this episode of the ICIS Podcast,…   Source: https://www.icis.com/rss/publicrss/?free=true&region=middle%20east