Bolivia’s YPFB to license PP technology from LyondellBasell

Plastics News reports: Bolivia’s YPFB to license PP technology from LyondellBasell Bolivia’s state-owned petrochemical company will license polypropylene technology from LyondellBasell Industries for use at the country’s first plastic resins plant. Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) has selected Spheripol process technology for the 550-million-pound capacity plant in Tarija. Market sources said the plant is expected…

Petrochemical 101, the great Bolivian tragicomedy

Carlos Miranda Pacheco is one of our hydrocarbons’ expert, his reflection appeared in Pagina Siete: Speaking of energy Petrochemical, the great national tragicomedy Government officials, with the enthusiasm of having discovered the wheel, brag about being the first to have advocated the industrialization of gas. Therefore, some clarifications are worthy. On October 18, 1969, general…