17.01.2015
- With prices for crude oil now below $60 a barrel, analysts are questioning the viability of many shale projects. But while the breathtaking price plunge may have Saudi sheiks and...
16.01.2015
- BP will face a maximum fine of $13.7 billion under the US Clean Water Act for its 2010 spill of 3.19 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico - the worst in US history. The...
09.01.2015
- Jacobs Engineering Group has received a contract from BP Chembel for basic and detailed engineering services to upgrade that company's production facilities at Geel, Belgium. BP...
07.01.2015
- Raízen, a joint venture of oil and petrochemicals group Shell with Brazil's Cosan, will spend nearly $1 billion on building eight second generation bioethanol plants for the...
15.12.2014
- Eastman Chemical has completed its acquisition of compatriot Commonwealth Laminating & Coating, a manufacturer of window films and specialty films for automotive, architectural...
20.10.2014
- Mizushima Aroma Co, a joint venture of Mitsubishi Gas Chemical and Toyobo, both of Japan, plans to phase out its 260,000 t/y production of polyester feedstock PTA by the end of the...
17.10.2014
- Two European ethanol producers, Belgium's Alcogroup and Sweden's Lantmannen Agroetanol, have been raided by EU competition authorities as part of a 17-month long investigation into...
10.09.2014
- The British government has urged the US Supreme Court to review appeals court rulings against BP over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the coast. In a friend of court brief...
