06.09.2013
- As expected, French petrochemicals group Total has announced plans to close its loss-making steam cracker Carling, in northeastern France, in the second half of 2015. Employees of...
03.09.2013
- In recent years, chemical players have managed their businesses with little clear direction in the light of continuing volatile markets. They aimed to address the key strategic...
02.09.2013
- Brent futures fell more than a dollar to a one-week low below $113 on Monday, with supply disruption worries receding as a military strike against Syria looked less imminent. Fears...
29.08.2013
- China's environment ministry will stop approving some new refining projects and upgrades of existing facilities by the country's top state-owned oil firms after the two failed to...
27.08.2013
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant has agreed to form a joint venture with Saudi Arabian industrial conglomerate Tasnee to produce masterbatches in the Middle East country...
27.08.2013
- German specialty chemicals producer Evonik said it will "significantly" expand its oil additives production at Jurong Island in Singapore by 2015 through production improvements...
27.08.2013
- Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (MPM) has moved management of its polyurethane additives product line from Tarrytown, New York, in the U.S. to Shanghai, China. Tony Lanchak...
21.08.2013
- A shale gas deal in Ukraine hit a setback on Tuesday when a local council rejected the government's draft production-sharing agreement with U.S. energy company Chevron amid...
21.08.2013
- Technologies for producing synthetic diesel from waste have failed to step up to rapidly rising U.S. biofuel targets, leaving the long-term future of those targets further in doubt...
20.08.2013
- British police dispersed hundreds of protesters who blocked access to an oil exploration site in rural England on Monday in an intensification of an almost month-long standoff over...
