Keyword: Oil

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BASF Buying Norwegian Gas Assets From Statoil

26.09.2014 - To diversify its supply of energy to the German market, BASF's oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall recently agreed to purchase assets worth $1.25 billion from Norway's Statoil. In...

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ExxonMobil Expands Specialty Hydrocarbons in Singapore, Antwerp

26.09.2014 - ExxonMobil Chemical plans to increase annual output of its high performance hydrocarbon fluids by about 10% through in Singapore and Antwerp up to 2016. The US oil and...

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UK Lends Hand to BP in US Gulf Spill Case

10.09.2014 - The British government has urged the US Supreme Court to review appeals court rulings against BP over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the coast. In a friend of court brief...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Oil- and Gas-Field Chemicals

02.04.2014 - Soaring Costs - For a rising number of chemical companies, an increasingly profitable market is the sale of chemicals to aid the extraction of oil and gas from deep and...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Enhanced Oil Recovery Chemicals Market Trends

04.10.2013 - Maximizing Oil Fields' Output - Oil producers have resorted to innovative techniques to retrieve trapped oil from rock, sandstone and other formations. In most cases, stimulation...

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BP Cuts Global Gas Reserves Estimate, Mostly for Russia

12.06.2013 - Oil major BP steeply cut its estimates of global gas reserves on Wednesday, revising Russian reserves down sharply and putting Iran at the top of the world league table. In its...

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Vopak Considering LNG Storage in Asia as Demand Grows

12.06.2013 - Dutch oil and chemicals storage company Vopak is considering building more liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage terminals, including its first in Asia, to meet rising demand as spot...

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Shell Under the Skin, 10 Years After Crisis

30.05.2013 - A decade ago, Royal Dutch/Shell's boss was fighting to close the gap between the truth about his company's oil and gas reserves and the much larger figure in its accounts. He lost...