Keyword: shale gas-derived ethane

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Decision Delayed in Grangemouth Road Fight

26.04.2016 - Ineos has stalled in the first round but could still win its fight to permanently close a public road that runs through its Grangemouth complex in Scotland. At a hearing held by...

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Ineos Preparing to Restart Idled Cracker Train

30.03.2016 - With the first shipments of liquefied shale gas-derived ethane due to arrive in Scotland sometime in the second half of 2016 – the most recent estimate is for an August delivery –...

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Ineos Ships First Shale Gas to Europe

11.03.2016 - Ineos has launched the first shipment of shale gas-derived ethane from the US to Europe. The ship Ineos Intrepid, said to be the world’s largest LNG multi-gas carrier, left the...

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Pennsylvania Firm Delivers Ecology Offsets for Shell

24.07.2015 - First Pennsylvania Resource has supplied the wetland and stream offsets needed by Shell Chemical to be awarded federal and state permits for its planned world-scale petrochemical...

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Ineos’ Grangemouth Ethane Storage Tank on Track

15.07.2015 - With the help of four low-pressure fans, Ineos has “raised the roof” on the new ethane tank it is installing at its mammoth petrochemical complex at Grangemouth, Scotland – a first...

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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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Dow Reveals Plans to Close Grangemouth Additives Plant

19.12.2013 - Just as workers at Grangemouth thought the worst was over, the mammoth petrochemical complex on Scotland's river Forth has been dealt another low blow. Days before Christmas, Dow...

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Ineos May Apply for UK fracking licence

17.12.2013 - Ineos chairman Jim Ratcliffe has said the company may apply to pursue shale gas exploration in the UK when the government begins awarding additional fracking licenses. However, no...