05.01.2012
- French oil group Total is plowing $2.3 billion into the development of U.S. shale gas reserves in Ohio in the latest example of global energy companies piling into burgeoning new...
03.01.2012
- Fortune Oil, a key shareholder in takeover target China Gas Holdings, will not accept the unsolicited $2.2 billion bid from Sinopec and ENN Energy Holdings, a top executive at...
01.01.2012
- PetroChina and Sinopec have signed an agreement with the Zhejiang government on six petrochemical projects worth 139.1 billion yuan ($22 billion), the official China Securities...
09.12.2011
- PetroChina said a new shale gas find in Sichuan province would be difficult to convert to commercial production because Chinese geological conditions were more difficult than in...
09.12.2011
- Chinese Overview - Throughout the year 2011, we covered several aspects of the chemical industry in China, ranging from R&D cooperation to strategy development and the tendency of...
06.12.2011
- Sinopec is planning a one-month regular maintenance at a 160,000 barrel-per-day crude unit operated at its Qilu plant in the summer of 2012, a company official said. That will trim...
06.12.2011
- Sinopec Kantons Holding plans to raise up to HK$3.5 billion ($450 million) via a rights issue to fund its acquisition of equity interests in five joint ventures from its parent...
28.11.2011
- China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec), China's top oil refiner, will delay the startup of a new 160,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) crude oil unit at its Jinling refinery until June...
