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...
21.04.2016
- British chemical producers organized in the national Chemical Industries Association (CIA) have come out clearly in favor of the country remaining in the European Union. In a...
20.04.2016
- A new federal rule aimed at protecting an estimated 2.3 million workers in the US from silica exposure could affect the plastics and compounding industries. The legislation is set...
11.03.2016
- Ineos has launched the first shipment of shale gas-derived ethane from the US to Europe. The ship Ineos Intrepid, said to be the world’s largest LNG multi-gas carrier, left the...
10.02.2016
- Companies wishing to carry out hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Yorkshire will have to prove they have made efforts to reduce the impact of drilling on the landscape, a...
02.02.2016
- Even with many shale gas projects now on ice due to the ongoing erosion of crude prices, Ineos remains bullish. Chairman Jim Ratcliffe told the British newspaper The Telegraph that...
20.11.2015
- A fire at a Lubrizol plant in Leetsdale Industrial Park near Pittsburgh, Pennylvania, in the US on Nov. 17 injured one worker and prompted a hazmat response by local firefighters...
22.09.2015
- Faced with a rapidly rising number of earthquakes, some of which have been brought into connection with fracking, the US state of Oklahoma is increasingly coming under geophysical...
