Petrochemical Trouble Brewing in the Middle Kingdom On April 28, 2014, Reuters and other sources reported that Sinopec Corp, the largest petrochemical producer in China, had put on hold a massive $3.1 billion USD ethylene plant in Qingdao, a refinery hub in China’s Shandong province.[1] The official reason cited was a safety reassessment, following last November’s […]
The US petrochemical industry has the money, the cheap feedstocks, the technology and the projects to boom in a way perhaps never seen thanks to shale gas. What it lacks is enough skilled labor to see these projects through. And as industry players will tell you, that’s a huge problem. “This problem isn’t going to […]