Paraxylene - My Project Note

15/10/2026Honeywell UOP Wins Licensing and Engineering Scope for GPIC’s Bahrain Aromatics Complex: 1.2 Million t/y Paraxylene, 500,000 t/y Benzene

2026-10-15 According to a press release issued from Manama, Bahrain on October 12, 2026, Honeywell Technologies said that GPIC chose Honeywell Technologies UOP to provide licensing and engineering services for a new aromatics complex. It is reported that the facility is designed for about 1.2 million t/y of paraxylene and about 500,000 t/y of benzene, […]

17/09/2026Bahrain’s GPIC Awards Fluor FEED Contract for First Aromatics Plant at Sitra Complex

Bahrain’s state-owned petrochemical company GPIC (Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company) has awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to US-based Fluor Corporation for the country’s first aromatics facility at its Sitra complex, it is reported. The contract was announced in July 2026. The FEED covers an expansion project that adds new aromatics units producing paraxylene […]

08/09/2026Fluor Wins FEED Contract for Bahrain’s GPIC Aromatics Plant, Targeting 1.2 Million Tonnes of PX Annually

Fluor Corporation has reportedly won a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for an aromatics plant belonging to Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC) in Sitra, Bahrain. GPIC is a joint venture equally owned by Bapco Energies, SABIC, and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. The aromatics plant covered by this FEED contract will be a new addition to GPIC’s […]

08/09/2026China’s Dongming Petrochemical Files EIA for $10 Billion Integrated Refining-Petrochemical Project

Dongming Petrochemical, based in Heze, Shandong Province, China, has reportedly published a public disclosure for the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of an integrated refining and petrochemical project valued at 71.3 billion yuan (approximately $10 billion). The project is reported to involve building an integrated refining-petrochemical complex with 10 million tonnes per year of crude distillation […]

02/09/2026Shandong Dongming Petrochemical Publishes First Environmental Disclosure for Its RMB71.3bn, 10-Million-Tonne Refining-Petrochemical Integration Project

Shandong Dongming Petrochemical, China’s largest private (“teapot”) refiner, has reportedly published its first environmental impact assessment for a large refining-petrochemical integration project. The project is reportedly being pursued within the company’s industrial park in Heze, Shandong province, with crude distillation capacity revised down to 10 million tonnes per year from an originally planned 15 million […]