Petrochemical Stocks List

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Petrochemical Stocks Recent News

Date Stock Title
Mar 28 TTE Director / PDMR Shareholding
Mar 28 PSX Are Strong Financial Prospects The Force That Is Driving The Momentum In Phillips 66's NYSE:PSX) Stock?
Mar 28 XOM Energy stocks lead March gains in sign of broadening market rally
Mar 28 XOM 2 Energy Stocks You Can Buy Right Now Before They Surge Even Higher
Mar 28 UGP Best Growth Stocks to Buy for March 28th
Mar 28 TTE March 28, 1924: TotalEnergies is 100!
Mar 28 XOM Oil Giants Plan to Bury Massive Amounts of CO2 in Southeast Asia
Mar 27 XOM Energy stocks soared in March
Mar 27 XOM Republican senators push back against FTC scrutiny of oil and gas mergers - report
Mar 27 TTE Russian cuts to crude output may bring $100 oil, J.P. Morgan says
Mar 27 PSX Russian cuts to crude output may bring $100 oil, J.P. Morgan says
Mar 27 XOM Russian cuts to crude output may bring $100 oil, J.P. Morgan says
Mar 27 XOM US Companies In Japan Wary On Market Intervention As Yen Hits 34-Year Low Vs. Dollar
Mar 27 XOM ExxonMobil (XOM) Sounds Alarm on Australia's Gas Supply Outlook
Mar 27 PSX Phillips 66 (PSX) Eyes Pipeline Stake Sale Worth More Than $1B
Mar 27 XOM 3 Dividend Stocks That Have Paid and Raised Their Payouts for at Least 30 Consecutive Years
Mar 26 XOM Exxon Mobil: Opportunity Knocked - Did You Answer? What's Next? (Technical Analysis)
Mar 26 XOM Why Exxon Mobil (XOM) Dipped More Than Broader Market Today
Mar 26 PSX Phillips 66 explores sale of REX pipeline stake worth $1B-plus - Reuters
Mar 26 PSX Phillips 66 Sees Global Fuel-Market Growth Even as US Demand Plateaus
Petrochemical

Petrochemicals (also known as petroleum distillates) are chemical products derived from petroleum. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or renewable sources such as corn, palm fruit or sugar cane.
The two most common petrochemical classes are olefins (including ethylene and propylene) and aromatics (including benzene, toluene and xylene isomers).
Oil refineries produce olefins and aromatics by fluid catalytic cracking of petroleum fractions. Chemical plants produce olefins by steam cracking of natural gas liquids like ethane and propane. Aromatics are produced by catalytic reforming of naphtha. Olefins and aromatics are the building-blocks for a wide range of materials such as solvents, detergents, and adhesives. Olefins are the basis for polymers and oligomers used in plastics, resins, fibers, elastomers, lubricants, and gels.Global ethylene and propylene production are about 115 million tonnes and 70 million tonnes per annum, respectively. Aromatics production is approximately 70 million tonnes. The largest petrochemical industries are located in the USA and Western Europe; however, major growth in new production capacity is in the Middle East and Asia. There is substantial inter-regional petrochemical trade.
Primary petrochemicals are divided into three groups depending on their chemical structure:

Olefins includes Ethene, Propene, Butenes and butadiene. Ethylene and propylene are important sources of industrial chemicals and plastics products. Butadiene is used in making synthetic rubber.
Aromatics includes Benzene, toluene and xylenes, as a whole referred to as BTX and primarily obtained from petroleum refineries by extraction from the reformate produced in catalytic reformers using Naphtha obtained from petroleum refineries. Benzene is a raw material for dyes and synthetic detergents, and benzene and toluene for isocyanates MDI and TDI used in making polyurethanes. Manufacturers use xylenes to produce plastics and synthetic fibers.
Synthesis gas is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used to make ammonia and methanol. Ammonia is used to make the fertilizer urea and methanol is used as a solvent and chemical intermediate. Steam crackers are not to be confused with steam reforming plants used to produce hydrogen and ammonia.
Methane, ethane, propane and butanes obtained primarily from natural gas processing plants.
Methanol and formaldehyde.In 2007, the amounts of ethylene and propylene produced in steam crackers were about 115 Mt (megatonnes) and 70 Mt, respectively. The output ethylene capacity of large steam crackers ranged up to as much as 1.0 – 1.5 Mt per year.
The adjacent diagram schematically depicts the major hydrocarbon sources used in producing petrochemicals are.
Like commodity chemicals, petrochemicals are made on a very large scale. Petrochemical manufacturing units differ from commodity chemical plants in that they often produce a number of related products. Compare this with specialty chemical and fine chemical manufacture where products are made in discrete batch processes.
Petrochemicals are predominantly made in a few manufacturing locations around the world, for example in Jubail & Yanbu Industrial Cities in Saudi Arabia, Texas & Louisiana in the US, in Teesside in the Northeast of England in the United Kingdom, in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and in Jamnagar & Dahej in Gujarat, India. Not all of the petrochemical or commodity chemical materials produced by the chemical industry are made in one single location but groups of related materials are often made in adjacent manufacturing plants to induce industrial symbiosis as well as material and utility efficiency and other economies of scale. This is known in chemical engineering terminology as integrated manufacturing. Speciality and fine chemical companies are sometimes found in similar manufacturing locations as petrochemicals but, in most cases, they do not need the same level of large scale infrastructure (e.g., pipelines, storage, ports and power, etc.) and therefore can be found in multi-sector business parks.
The large scale petrochemical manufacturing locations have clusters of manufacturing units that share utilities and large scale infrastructure such as power stations, storage tanks, port facilities, road and rail terminals. In the United Kingdom for example, there are 4 main locations for such manufacturing: near the River Mersey in Northwest England, on the Humber on the East coast of Yorkshire, in Grangemouth near the Firth of Forth in Scotland and in Teesside as part of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC). To demonstrate the clustering and integration, some 50% of the United Kingdom's petrochemical and commodity chemicals are produced by the NEPIC industry cluster companies in Teesside.

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