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...
03.09.2013
- BASF is stepping up its pressure on Germany to soften its hesitant stance on shale gas exploitation. In presenting Q2 results in July, CEO Kurt Bock said he hoped the new...
21.08.2013
- A shale gas deal in Ukraine hit a setback on Tuesday when a local council rejected the government's draft production-sharing agreement with U.S. energy company Chevron amid...
16.07.2013
- French president Francois Hollande has ruled out overturning the country's ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, during his five-year term of office, which ends in 2017. The...
12.07.2013
- After the first six months of 2013, a clear business trend for Germany's chemical producers has not yet materialized, Karl-Ludwig Kley, president of the industry association...
26.06.2013
- German geologists plan to campaign for greater public acceptance of hydraulic fracking in Europe's biggest economy, saying there is scope to make the shale gas industry more...
02.05.2013
- Finnish chemicals group Kemira believes stricter environmental regulation of its customers in the oil and gas industry will create a big new market for its water treatment...
