27.08.2012
- Chemicals maker TPC Group has agreed to be taken private for $627.2 million by private equity firms First Reserve Corp and SK Capital Partners as prices for its main product, used...
27.08.2012
- Germany's energy strategy will cost consumers dearly as costs for new renewable power generation units and networks must be passed on, the head of the German unit of Swedish state...
27.08.2012
- Refiner and oil and gas producer Sinopec Corp said it saw growing demand for its products in the second half of the year, after losses at its refining and chemicals businesses led...
25.08.2012
- An explosion tore through Venezuela's biggest oil refinery on Saturday, killing at least 24 people, wounding more than 80 and halting operations at the huge facility in the OPEC...
25.08.2012
- Oil and gas producers in the Gulf of Mexico started preparing for Tropical Storm Isaac on Friday as its track looked to skirt the heart of the U.S. offshore energy producing zone...
24.08.2012
- For the past five years, the U.S. government has paid fuel companies billions of dollars in subsidies to buy home-grown, corn-based ethanol, making it a viable part of the nation's...
24.08.2012
- Australia's southeastern state of Victoria on Friday put a hold on hydraulic fracturing, a technique used to produce hard-to-reach gas deposits, and a halt on new coal seam gas...
23.08.2012
- Specialty chemicals producer Rockwood Holdings agreed to buy Talison Lithium for C$724 million ($729 million) to boost its output of lithium used in batteries and smartphones...
23.08.2012
- PetroChina, the country's dominant oil and gas producer which also owns refineries, has earmarked close to $16 billion for overseas investment this year as it aims to have half its...
23.08.2012
- The chief oil trader at TNK-BP said he would leave the Anglo-Russian oil venture, which faces an uncertain future as its owners seek to dissolve their fraught but highly lucrative...
