Keyword: Fracking

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US Markets Drive Global Reallocation and Growth

15.01.2014 - Changing The Industry - The global chemical industry is in a state of flux. The Asian economies, which have been the growth engines of the chemical industry for the last decade...

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Total Deal Speeds Up UK Shale Gas Race

14.01.2014 - Total has become the first major oil and gas company to strike a deal to explore for shale gas in Britain, boosting a technology which has brought cheap energy to the United States...

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U.S. EPA Unlikely To Step Up Fracking Enforcement Efforts For Now

09.01.2014 - Federal regulators are unlikely to step up enforcement of potential water contamination cases linked to natural gas drilling - despite new concerns about water safety - given a...

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BP Inks Tight Gas Exploitation Project in Oman

02.01.2014 - Oil and gas multinational BP has signed deals on tight gas projects worth $16 billion in Oman as well as a non-binding agreement to develop a 1 million t/y acetic acid plant at...

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U.S. Court Allows Pennsylvania Towns to Limit Fracking

30.12.2013 - In what could be a landmark decision, the supreme court of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania has ruled that the state's elimination of zoning and land-use planning rights of local...

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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...

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Effect of Global Shale on the GCC

15.12.2013 - Hydrocarbon Building Blocks - Exploitation of shale deposits in the U.S. has risen quickly and will continue to intensify in the coming years as technology and expertise improve...

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China’s chemical industry

13.12.2013 - In Move Toward Consumption-Led Economy, Specialty and High-End Chemical Segments Will Further ExpandA World Leader - The chemical industry in China is both a key driver and prime...