24.09.2014
- Industries Qatar (IQ) has announced completion of a new CO2 recovery plant at its fuel additives joint venture Qafac. At the same time it has revealed that the large Al Sejeel...
15.11.2013
- Challenging The West - For most of the 20th century, the global chemical industry was dominated by the Western world (Western Europe, North America and Japan as an honorary member...
13.05.2013
- Business - Shell Chemicals held a ground-breaking ceremony last month for the building of facilities for making high-purity ethylene oxide (HPEO) and ethoxylates at its site in...
28.02.2013
- Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Shell have launched today the logo of the Al-Karaana Petrochemicals Complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City and also announced the award of the project's...
25.10.2012
- Technology - Growing chemicals demand from Asia and the need to reduce exposure to fluctuating oil prices continue to drive petrochemicals expansion in the Middle East. In the past...
30.05.2011
- France's Total has acquired a 25% stake in Qatar's Block BC offshore exploration license, state-owned Qatar Petroleum said in a statement on Sunday. Located 130 kilometers east of...
22.12.2010
- Royal Dutch Shell and Qatar Petroleum will jointly study building a major petrochemicals plant in the Ras Laffan industrial city in Qatar, Shell said on Tuesday. "The scope under...
11.08.2010
- Oil major Exxon Mobil is still working with Qatar Petroleum (QP) on a planned $6 billion petrochemicals complex, a spokesman for the U.S. firm said on Tuesday, refuting a media...
