Keyword: Petrochemicals

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Port of Antwerp Supports Major Petchem Investments

23.01.2015 - The Port of Antwerp continues to attract petrochemical investments, the operating company says in its annual report for 2014. To underscore its position as an integrated cluster...

Strategy & Management

Profitable Growth in Specialty Chemicals

20.01.2015 - The European chemical industry's share of the global market remains on a downward trajectory in continuation of the negative trend visible to observers for years. Europe's chemical...

Markets & Companies

Building Momentum

19.01.2015 - In the US, where economic growth has been characterized as "slow and steady" for some time, expansion and strength in the chemical industry continues and momentum is building. In...

Markets & Companies

Ineos Still Bullish on Shale Gas

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...

Markets & Companies

How now, Jim Ratcliffe?

17.01.2015 - With prices for crude oil now below $60 a barrel, analysts are questioning the viability of many shale projects. But while the breathtaking price plunge may have Saudi sheiks and...

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ExxonMobil to Close French Rubber Plant

09.01.2015 - ExxonMobil Chemical in late December confirmed plans to close its standard butyl rubber plant at Notre Dame de Gravenchon, France. At press time, the closure was being discussed...

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Sweeny Expansion Adds 90,000 t/y Ethylene at Chevron Phillips

16.12.2014 - Chevron Phillips Chemical has completed the expansion of ethylene capacity at its Sweeny complex in Old Ocean, Texas. The capacity addition is part of the group's US Gulf Coast...

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Shell Wants South Africa to Move on Shale Gas

13.11.2014 - Energy and petrochemicals giant Shell has expressed concern about the slow progress South Africa is making in granting licenses for shale gas exploration, despite having accepted...