Keyword: petroleum

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IMCD Expands in South Africa with CPS Oil-Tech Buy

21.02.2023 -

IMCD South Africa has agreed to buy CPS Chemical Oil-Tech, a Durban-based distributor that mostly serves the lubricants and fuel markets. The transaction is expected to...

Strategy & Management

Hard Times for Bio-based Products

03.04.2018 - Petroleum is a limited resource and if we keep using it global warming will accelerate. Since this realization has filtered in the quest for alternatives has begun. Shale gas and...

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Jacobs to Acquire CH2M for $3.3 billion

10.08.2017 - US contractor Jacobs Engineering has entered into a definitive agreement to buy CH2M in a cash and stock transaction with an enterprise value of about $3.27 billion, including...

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Indian Oil Approves Refinery/PP project

09.08.2017 - The board of directors at Indian Oil has approved the expansion of its Gujarat refinery, which will also incorporate units to produce propylene and PP. The refinery’s crude oil...

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Indian Majors Link in Refinery/Petchems Project

20.06.2017 - Major state-owned companies Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum have signed an agreement to build what they say will be one of the world’s largest integrated...

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Oiltanking Buys Land for Texas City Terminal

18.04.2017 - Storage services group Oiltanking North America has bought about 22 acres of waterfront and industrial land in Texas City, Texas, USA, in order to develop a new deepwater terminal...

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Kuwait Petroleum Replaces IPIC in Duqm Project

15.11.2016 - Oman Oil Company (OOC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) to develop the Duqm refinery and petrochemical complex in Oman’s Al...

Markets & Companies

How 20 Years Have Transformed the Chemical Industry

06.05.2015 - For the second consecutive year, the Boston Consulting Group has conducted a total shareholder return (TSR) analysis of the chemical industry. The top 10 chemical companies have...