Shandong’s Dongming Petrochemical Targets Startup of World’s First Commercial Crude-to-Olefins (UPC) Unit This Year

Dongming Petrochemical, located in Heze, Shandong Province, China, is reported to be in the final stages of commissioning what would be the world’s first commercial-scale unit to directly catalytically crack crude oil into olefins, known as UPC. The catalyst and process technology are reported to have been jointly developed with Shandong University. The unit directly […]