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...
18.03.2011
- South Korea's third-largest crude oil refiner S-Oil said in a statement on Thursday that it would supply 2.4 million barrels of oil products to quake-hit Japan as requested by...
17.03.2011
- Salt tends to cake when transported or stored without special additives. So back in the 1950s we developed ferrocyanide (also called YPS), a powerful anti-caking agent for salt...
17.03.2011
- South Korea's OCI said in a regulatory filing on Thursday it had won an order to supply polycrystalline silicon worth 641.2 billion won ($565.7 million) to China's Changzhou Trina...
16.03.2011
- Markets are constantly on the move. But change is not something to fear. On the contrary, it brings new opportunities. With more than a century of experience as the largest chorine...
16.03.2011
- Saving Energy - Today's technology offers compressed air users myriad ways to significantly reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. It has long been recognized that energy...
