Keyword: Petrochemicals

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European Chemical Industry: Hope Amid Economic Woes

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...

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ExxonMobil Outlines Risk Management Practice for Fracking

02.10.2014 - US oil and petrochemicals group ExxonMobil has released a report to shareholders detailing how it assesses and deals with the risks of developing unconventional resources...

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Ineos Proposes to Share 6% of Fracking Revenue With UK Communities

29.09.2014 - Jim Ratcliffe, chairman of petrochemicals giant Ineos, which recently acquired a stake in a UK shale gas exploration license, has launched an initiative to promote public...

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Germany’s hte to Help SABIC Develop Catalysis Technology

26.09.2014 - Saudi Arabian petrochemicals giant SABIC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate with German high throughput catalyst specialist hte. The German company will...

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ExxonMobil Expands Specialty Hydrocarbons in Singapore, Antwerp

26.09.2014 - ExxonMobil Chemical plans to increase annual output of its high performance hydrocarbon fluids by about 10% through in Singapore and Antwerp up to 2016. The US oil and...

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LyondellBasell May Add More Shale Gas-fed Ethylene in Texas

25.09.2014 - Petrochemicals giant LyondellBasell said it is weighing further expansion of its ethylene capacity at Channelview, Texas, potentially adding as much as 550 million lb/y (nearly 250...

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Braskem Joins Amyris and Michelin in Renewable Isoprene R&D

22.09.2014 - Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem has joined an existing collaboration of bio-based farnesene producer Amrys and tire manufacturer Michelin to develop and commercialise...

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UK Lends Hand to BP in US Gulf Spill Case

10.09.2014 - The British government has urged the US Supreme Court to review appeals court rulings against BP over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the coast. In a friend of court brief...