12.05.2010
- Sabic and Sinopec Corp's joint venture petrochemical complex has begun commercial operations, the Saudi firm said on Tuesday. The complex, which is 50% owned by Sabic, has a total...
12.05.2010
- Merck & Co plans to seek approval for five new medicines this year, including a closely watched hepatitis C treatment, but has halted development of an experimental anemia medicine...
12.05.2010
- Executives from BP and other companies involved in a deadly Gulf of Mexico offshore oil well blowout blamed each other in Washington on Tuesday as troops and prison inmates rushed...
11.05.2010
- Big oil goes under the spotlight on Tuesday when U.S. lawmakers grill top executives on a drilling rig explosion and oil spill that threatens an environmental catastrophe in the...
10.05.2010
- BP was considering its next move on Monday after its most promising short-term remedy for a massive undersea oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico struck a snag over the weekend, fueling...
07.05.2010
- The German advertising tagline "greed is good" is now outmoded as a basic principle of purchasing. A low purchase price does not mean that a product is actually inexpensive...
07.05.2010
- BP engineers were expected to lower a massive metal containment chamber onto a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday in an effort to stem the widening slick. If all...
06.05.2010
- The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has not slowed ship traffic to New Orleans, and shipping lanes into the port are expected to stay clear at least into Friday, a spokesman said. No...
06.05.2010
- Workers toiled above and below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday to plug a gushing oil leak and protect the U.S. shoreline in one of the biggest spill containment...