17.01.2015
- As the UK government's push to repeat the US shale gas boom on its own soil moved up a notch in late 2014 with the sale of exploration licenses, Ineos revealed plans to expand...
28.10.2014
- The European chemical industry has reduced its forecast growth in chemicals output in 2014 in the face of evidence of an economic slowdown both in Europe and in the world's fast...
02.04.2014
- Soaring Costs - For a rising number of chemical companies, an increasingly profitable market is the sale of chemicals to aid the extraction of oil and gas from deep and...
26.08.2013
- Shale Gas is Rolling in U.S. - Although shale gas extraction has been known and performed to a limited extent for decades in the U.S., exploitation has become competitive only in...
24.07.2013
- Crack To The Future - The petrochemical feedstock world is changing. Historically most petrochemical feedstock came from the refinery, with refinery naphtha and liquefied petroleum...
14.05.2013
- European authorities have raided offices of oil majors Shell, BP and Statoil as part of a probe into suspected manipulation of oil prices, one of the biggest cross-border actions...
26.04.2013
- French oil firm Total posted a fall in first-quarter profit due to lower oil prices and a drop in oil and gas output, partly offset by a rise in its refining and chemicals business...
21.02.2013
- A spike in piracy off Nigeria's oil-rich coast has shown gangs are willing to venture further afield and use more violent tactics, increasing the risk of doing business in Africa's...
