Oil, Gas & Petroleum Engineering

PETRO CHEMISTRY AND PROCESS ENGINEERING

Chemical obtained either directly from cracking (pyrolysis), or not directly from chemical handling, of petroleum Oil or natural gas. Major petrochemicals remain acetylene, benzene, ethane, ethylene, methane, propane, and hydrogen, from which hundreds of other chemicals are derived. These derivatives are used as elastomers, fibres, plasticizers, and solvents, and as feedstock for manufacture of thousands of other products.