19.04.2017
- Canada’s Nova Chemicals has agreed to pay $2.1 billion to acquire Williams’ 88.46% stake in the olefins plant at Geismar, Louisiana, in the US. The deal also includes undeveloped...
29.03.2017
- Another new mammoth petrochemicals and plastics project has been announced for the US state of Texas by non-US companies seeking to profit from access to inexpensive shale gas...
21.10.2016
- French engineering contractor Technip has been awarded a contract by Kazanorgsintez, Russia’s largest PE producer and one of the country’s biggest chemical companies, to provide...
24.08.2016
- Ineos has found a fresh occasion to aim its pro-shale battering ram at the Scottish government’s door. Despite protestations earlier this year that it is quite content to bide its...
10.05.2016
- Major polyolefins player Borealis has entered into a long-term charter agreement with Navigator Gas to ship ethane from the US to Sweden, echoing moves by fellow producer Ineos...
10.11.2015
- Ineos is emerging more and more as an indirect supplier and potential direct provider of shale gas-derived ethane to third parties rather than just a consumer. Hardly a day goes by...
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...
19.11.2014
- The two words on everyone's lips in recent years in the energy industry have been "shale boom." This article will lay out JBC Energy's view of the future of the U.S. shale boom and...
