Sibur Holdings to Build Worldscale Polypropylene Plant

Russian's petrochemical group of companies, Sibur Holding is planning for a worldscale polypropylene plant which will also become the biggest polypropylene complex in Russia.

The plant will utilize German's technology company, Linde for building the PP plant. The polypropylene plant will have a nameplate capacity of 500,000 tpa capacity.

The PP chemical plant will be located in Tobolsk in the Tyumen region, Russia.

Shell Opening Up Chemical Plants in Qatar

Shell, together with Qatar Petroleum is planning for chemical plants project in Qatar. The two companies already have a gas-to-liquid (GTL) project at Ras Laffan producing 120,000 barrels per day of natural gas liquids and 140,000 barrels per day of GTL derivatives.

The chemical project was announced informally by Ben van Beurden, Shell Chemicals' executive vice president duringf the 4th Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) summit.

Timor-Leste Inviting Petronas to Develop Oil Field

Timor-Leste's government will invite Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) instead of Australian energy firm Woodside Petroleum and partners for the development of offshore Greater Sunrise gas field. The decision is expected due to Woodside's earlier plan for development of Greater Sunrise gas filed without an onshore plant for gas liquefaction.

The Timor-Lester ministry has advised that in order to benefit the country and the people by having a pipeline to East Timor instead of going to straight to other areas such as Darwin.

The decision is also believed due to good relations between Timor-Lester and Petronas and its previous experience in the oil sector and LNG plant.

Rule of Thumb: How to Design a Pressure Vessel

When you work at a chemical plant, there is a great likelihood that you will need to know basic design of process equipment. Regardless whether you work in an operation, or technical service, or design office, and project office, this basic knowledge is required so that you can quickly make sense of the numbers and any peculiarity.

Let’s say you are an operation guy, an operating engineer, you see your process gets upset in the production

Where would a chemical engineer be working?

After you finish your chemical engineering course and get that degree, nothing else matters.

What matters afterwards would be how you apply the knowledge that you have gained, nobody will really ask you the very fundamental of things, but rather you would be required to solve simple problems.

There are tonnes of options for a chemical engineering graduate to go to, but in reality, in can be broken