24.03.2011
- Japan's aluminum industry may see only relatively modest production disruptions from power outages in eastern Japan after this month's devastating earthquake, since much of its...
24.03.2011
- Norway's Yara is expanding in the mining explosives market by building an ammonium nitrate plant in Australia in a joint venture that creates closer ties with estranged partner...
23.03.2011
- Germany's Wintershall, a unit of BASF, said on Monday it would join Russia's South Stream gas pipeline project to pump gas under the Black Sea to Europe. BASF Chief Executive...
23.03.2011
- Russia is set to double its crude oil supply to earthquake-devastated Japan this year to some 18 million tons as a part of an energy aid package, top Russian energy official Igor...
AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals - A radical rethink of the chlorine supply chain - AkzoNobel has thought long and hard about how to secure the supply of chlorine to customers. Instead of high profile transports, we...
22.03.2011
- When the massive tsunami smacked into Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power plant was stacked high with more uranium than it was originally designed to hold and had repeatedly...
22.03.2011
- Germany's Wintershall, a unit of BASF, said on Monday it will join Russia's South Stream gas pipeline project, which will transport Russian gas under the Black Sea to Europe. BASF...
22.03.2011
- Asia's naphtha price and cracks were both at their highest in about a week on Monday, but the rally could run its course soon as traders were not convinced that supplies were as...
22.03.2011
- Indian state refiners have dropped shutdown plans for April in a sign of the widening impact of Japan's crisis on global oil markets, and calls for Reliance to be allowed to sell...
21.03.2011
- Royal Dutch Shell has shut its one-year old 800,000 ton-per-year (tpy) ethylene cracker in Singapore following operational issues, and has declared force majeure on some chemical...
