21.01.2014
- As part of a drive to improve its return on investment, Shell has agreed to sell stakes in a gas project in Western Australia to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company...
14.01.2014
- Total has become the first major oil and gas company to strike a deal to explore for shale gas in Britain, boosting a technology which has brought cheap energy to the United States...
09.01.2014
- Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras refined an average 2.03 million barrels a day of crude in the first 11 months of 2013, an amount equivalent to about 97% of its capacity...
06.01.2014
- As part of its drive to take advantage of the shale gas boom, LyondellBasell has restarted a methanol plant at its Channelview site in Texas. The polyolefins giant closed the U.S...
02.01.2014
- Oil and gas multinational BP has signed deals on tight gas projects worth $16 billion in Oman as well as a non-binding agreement to develop a 1 million t/y acetic acid plant at...
30.12.2013
- In what could be a landmark decision, the supreme court of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania has ruled that the state's elimination of zoning and land-use planning rights of local...
29.12.2013
- Shortly before Christmas, BASF and Gazprom finalized a previously announced asset swap that will give the German chemical giant a bigger share of Russian gas exploration rights in...
23.12.2013
- BASF has declined comment on rumors it is preparing to bid for Dea, the German oil and gas exploration subsidiary energy giant RWE has put up for sale. Bids for the business must...
