24.03.2016
- As other companies delay plans for ambitious US petrochemical plants run on shale gas-derived feedstock as oil prices move further downward, Ineos appears to be pressing ahead. The...
21.03.2016
- A dockworkers strike at the Port of Grangemouth in Scotland that had threatened to hit supplies of refinery fuel and thus petrochemicals to southern Scotland and northern England...
17.03.2016
- Solvay has announced it will quit the Inovyn chlorvinyls joint venture with Ineos in the second half of 2015, more than two years earlier than anticipated, giving its Swiss-based...
15.03.2016
- As oil prices continue to drop, South African petrochemicals group Sasol is reviewing the cost and timing of parts of its $8.1 billion shale gas-fed cracker complex originally...
02.03.2016
- As it prepares to divest its plastics business and refocus on refining and oil exploration, Italian oil and petrochemicals giant Eni has reported assets and liabilities, revenues...
01.03.2016
- BASF continues to label as “rumor” remarks by executives of Iran’s National Petrochemical Company (NPC) that Germany’s and the world’s biggest chemical producer is negotiating...
22.02.2016
- French industrial gases producer Air Liquide is reportedly in discussions with Iran about building a 500,000 t/y propylene via methanol (PVM) plant. Owned and operated by Iran’s...
22.02.2016
- US engineering and construction company Fluor is to revamp BASF’s alcohol and plasticizers facility in Pasadena, Texas, USA. The value of the engineering, procurement and...