Keyword: Fracking

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Two US Judges Dismiss Chemical Firms’ Lawsuit Over Fracking

09.01.2015 - A judge in the US state of West Virginia in late December rejected a second legal challenge from Eagle Natrium, a New Martinsville-based subsidiary of Axiall, a manufacturer of...

Logistics & Supply Chain

‘Transportation Is a Critical Bottleneck’

25.11.2014 - During the last decade especially, globalization has resulted in stretched supply chains and increased risk. Because of the inherent lack of control across the multiple external...

Strategy & Management

Repercussions of the US Shale Story

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...

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Shell Wants South Africa to Move on Shale Gas

13.11.2014 - Energy and petrochemicals giant Shell has expressed concern about the slow progress South Africa is making in granting licenses for shale gas exploration, despite having accepted...

Strategy & Management

European Chemical Industry: Hope Amid Economic Woes

28.10.2014 - The European chemical industry has reduced its forecast growth in chemicals output in 2014 in the face of evidence of an economic slowdown both in Europe and in the world's fast...

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German Village Fears Link Between Cancer and Fracking

23.10.2014 - In the small German village of Bothel, near Bremen, the recent publication of epidemiological findings that cases of leukemia and lymphoma in men in the years 2003 to 2012 were...

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ExxonMobil Outlines Risk Management Practice for Fracking

02.10.2014 - US oil and petrochemicals group ExxonMobil has released a report to shareholders detailing how it assesses and deals with the risks of developing unconventional resources...

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Ineos Proposes to Share 6% of Fracking Revenue With UK Communities

29.09.2014 - Jim Ratcliffe, chairman of petrochemicals giant Ineos, which recently acquired a stake in a UK shale gas exploration license, has launched an initiative to promote public...