15.04.2014
- European utility companies are filling up gas storage sites to prepare for a potential Russian supply cut to Ukraine, the news agency Reuters reports. Russia says it is now owed...
10.04.2014
- Norway's Statoil, looking to become a global energy company, has been disappointed so far in its hunt for shale opportunities to match the quality of its U.S. assets, a senior...
09.04.2014
- Brazilian oil and petrochemicals group Braskem has secured an agreement with U.S. oil and gas producer Antero Resources for supply of ethane feedstock to the Ascent (Appalachian...
08.04.2014
- Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem) has held groundbreaking ceremonies for the new 1.5 m t/y ethane cracker to be built at its Cedar Bayou site near Baytown, Texas. The cracker...
02.04.2014
- Linde and Shell Global Solutions have signed an Enterprise Framework Agreement (EFA) to jointly build ethane crackers worldwide. The ten-year pact, covering licensing, engineering...
31.03.2014
- BASF oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall plans to drill up to five test wells in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with an eye to carrying out hydraulic fracturing, or...
31.03.2014
- Monaco-based oil products trading company Sotragem said it has offered to buy LyondellBasell's mothballed Berre refinery in southeastern France. Sotragem declined to say how much...
26.03.2014
- BASF Total Petrochemicals, a 60:40 joint venture of BASF and French oil and petrochemicals group Total, has started up a tenth furnace at its Port Arthur, Texas, steam cracker. The...
