31.01.2017
- More than a month after Russia announced one of its biggest privatizations since the 1990s, the true identity of the buyers of a 19.5% stake in its national oil company Rosneft has...
27.01.2017
- Versalis, a subsidiary of Italian energy giant Eni, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sonatrach to carry out feasibility studies for a gas-based integrated...
06.01.2017
- Shortly before Rex Tillerson becomes Secretary of State under new US President Donald Trump – if confirmed by the Senate in a hearing set to begin next week – the 64-year old now...
19.12.2016
- Continuing in the mode of choosing people for his cabinet who are not politicians and who have ties to industry, US president-elect, Donald Trump, has chosen ExxonMobil’s chairman...
16.12.2016
- After seeing no growth in 2016, the European chemical industry council CEFIC is forecasting a “small uptick” in EU chemical production of around 0.5% in 2017, despite a “volatile...
28.11.2016
- As a spate of autumn accidents at chemical plants continues, ExxonMobil’s oil refinery at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was hit last week by a major fire. Four workers – at least two of...
22.11.2016
- A find in western Texas of what is being billed as the largest-ever shale oil and gas reserves at a single site – possibly worth as much as $900 billion in revenue – is exciting...
15.11.2016
- Oman Oil Company (OOC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) to develop the Duqm refinery and petrochemical complex in Oman’s Al...
