31.08.2016
- The mammoth Sadara complex at Al Jubail Industrial City II, Saudi Arabia, has started up its mixed feed cracker, which will form the core for the $20 billion project operated by a...
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...
29.06.2016
- The recent approval of a new law on gas exploration by Germany’s federal parliament, Bundestag, will end a five-year drilling respite extended several times while the governing...
23.06.2016
- A US federal judge in the state of Wyoming has struck down an regulation of the administration of President Barack Obama dating from March 2015 that would ban fracking for oil and...
14.06.2016
- European competition authorities have approved the acquisition of Air Liquide Hungary by the Hungarian subsidiary of Germany’s Messer Group. With the approval, Messer Hungarogáz...
08.06.2016
- Shell Chemicals has finally made the decision to build a major shale-gas to petrochemicals complex on the banks of the Ohio River in Potter Township, Beaver County, northwest of...
07.06.2016
- BASF has decided to put plans for a 475,000 t/y US methane-to propylene plant in Freeport, Texas, on ice for now, citing volatile commodity prices. Managing board member Wayne T...
12.04.2016
- US oil and gas company Rex Energy has agreed to supply natural gas liquids to Ineos for its European crackers. The export deal covers ethane, propane and butane, which will be...
