Keyword: US shale gas

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Sabic Engineering Polymers Arm to Shut West Virginia ABS plant

18.11.2013 - Sabic Innovative Plastics, the engineering polymers arm of the Saudi group, will close its ABS plant at Washington, West Virginia in the U.S. and sell the property to investors...

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Accelerate Competency Assurance

14.11.2013 - Speed = Advantage - Abundance of natural gas in the U.S., an aging workforce, increased globalization and tighter regulations have created new competitive pressures on the European...

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Ineos Opens New Ethane Terminal in Belgium

14.11.2013 - Ineos has opened its new deep-sea ethylene terminal at Zwijndrecht, Belgium, near Antwerp. Here, as much as 1 million t/y of ethylene can be unloaded and fed into the company's...

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Tale of Two Countries on Risks of Shale Gas Exploration

12.11.2013 - The discussion of the potential hazards of shale gas extraction has been enriched by two recent reports from the UK and the U.S. While the first report seeks to assure skeptics...

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GE Drops Legal Fight Over Running Tar Sands Megaloads On Idaho Highway

29.10.2013 - A General Electric subsidiary has dropped its appeal of a federal court order barring a massive shipment of tar sands oil-field equipment from being trucked along a scenic Idaho...

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BASF Chief Upholds 2013 Earnings Forecast After Strong Q3

28.10.2013 - At the start of the year's fourth quarter, BASF is on track to match its 2012 sales and earnings figures again in 2013, despite the continued "challenging" environment and the fact...

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Ineos to Reopen Grangemouth After Unions and UK Make Concessions

25.10.2013 - Ineos said on Oct. 25 it would restart all production units at Grangemouth "immediately," after shuttering them on Oct. 15 at the height of its long-running dispute with the trade...

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Glimmer of Hope for Grangemouth After Union Rethink

24.10.2013 - Following a meeting between shop stewards of the Scottish trade union United and representatives of Ineos management on the morning of Oct. 24, it appeared as if the union was...