RELIANCE Industries has agreed to sell a 20% stake – worth US$15bn – in its refining and petrochemicals business to Saudi Aramco.

20th August 2019

Industry

Huntsman sells chemicals intermediates to Indorama

HUNTSMAN is selling its chemicals intermediates business to Indorama Ventures for US$2bn.

20th August 2019

Industry

Worsley Alumina signs contracts to receive 1.75m t of LNG

CHEVRON and Woodside Energy are to supply South32-operated joint venture (JV) Worsley Alumina with a total of about 100 petajoules, PJ (1.75m t) of liquefied natural gas (LNG), to power its operations.

20th August 2019

Industry

Clariant and SABIC suspend JV negotiations

SPECIALTY chemical company Clariant and diversified petrochemicals company SABIC have “temporarily” suspended negotiations for a high-performance materials joint-venture (JV), due to “unfavourable market conditions”. The announcement followed just one day after Clariant announced the resignation of CEO Ernesto Occhiello.

20th August 2019

Christopher Julian Hewitt 1969–2019

Obituary of Chris Hewitt, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University

Industry

Back to the Future

Andrew Coe and James Paterson explain developments on part of the solution to the dual energy challenge using an almost century-old reaction

Research & Development

First Steps

Mark Yates charts the development of Apollo’s portable life support system

Risk & Safety

Houston…We Have a Checklist

Why the humble checklist was essential during the Apollo space programme.

Chemical Engineers Who Changed the World

People

Kenneth Bingham Quinan and colleagues – An explosive start

2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Army was running short of munitions. The subsequent scaling up of the supply of high explosives and propellants became a major achievement of the embryonic chemical engineering profession under the leadership of Kenneth Bingham Quinan.

People

George E Davis – Meet the Daddy

For a series called Chemical Engineers who Changed the World, it would be downright rude not to feature the man who is widely regarded as the founding father of the discipline and the spiritual father of IChemE.