18.11.2013
- Poland is struggling to make "coal" less of a dirty word as it hosts U.N. talks on slowing global warming that usually focus mostly on phasing out fossil fuels in favour of...
18.11.2013
- Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas), Malaysia's state oil firm, and Italian oil company Eni's chemical unit said they have inked a joint venture agreement to make synthetic rubber in...
18.11.2013
- Investment in Norway's vast oil sector will nearly halt next year, then fall in following years, ending a decade-long investment boom and putting more pressure on a slowing economy...
15.11.2013
- Challenging The West - For most of the 20th century, the global chemical industry was dominated by the Western world (Western Europe, North America and Japan as an honorary member...
14.11.2013
- After a 26% plunge in EBITDA to €187 million in the third quarter, German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess has narrowed its guidance for full year 2013. The company now expects...
14.11.2013
- From Africa to Australia, Chinese refiners are exploring new markets to ship surplus oil products such as jet fuel and diesel, putting them on track to compete with global trading...
14.11.2013
- Leveraging Feedstocks' Advantage - Behind the Arabian Gulf petrochemical and chemical industry lies three decades of exceptional growth: leveraging advantaged feedstocks, economies...
14.11.2013
- Speed = Advantage - Abundance of natural gas in the U.S., an aging workforce, increased globalization and tighter regulations have created new competitive pressures on the European...
14.11.2013
- Ineos has opened its new deep-sea ethylene terminal at Zwijndrecht, Belgium, near Antwerp. Here, as much as 1 million t/y of ethylene can be unloaded and fed into the company's...
13.11.2013
- The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will as early as this week begin removing 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel in a hugely delicate and unprecedented...
