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Investment
SNF spends heavily to up polyacrylamide capacity
by Alex Scott
August 24, 2019
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 97, Issue 33
Continuing an investment program, SNF will expand its capacity for powder-grade polyacrylamide by 75,000 metric tons (t) per year globally by year-end 2020, largely to meet rising use of the product to recover oil from old wells. SNF is also expanding capacity for emulsion-grade polyacrylamide—used in hydraulic fracking—by 100,000 t per year in the US by the end of this year. SNF is also expanding upstream monomer production in the US. For the 3 years ending in 2020, SNF will have spent $1.2 billion expanding polyacrylamide capacity, the firm says.
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ISSN 0009-2347
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