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Ineos Opens New Ethane Terminal in Belgium

14.11.2013 - Ineos has opened its new deep-sea ethylene terminal at Zwijndrecht, Belgium, near Antwerp. Here, as much as 1 million t/y of ethylene can be unloaded and fed into the company's...

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Tale of Two Countries on Risks of Shale Gas Exploration

12.11.2013 - The discussion of the potential hazards of shale gas extraction has been enriched by two recent reports from the UK and the U.S. While the first report seeks to assure skeptics...

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Petronas Nears Deal to Sell Canada Shale Stake to Indian Company

12.11.2013 - Malaysia's Petronas is close to selling a stake in its Canadian shale gas assets to an Indian company as it looks to share some of the costs of bringing cheap liquefied natural gas...

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BASF Chief Upholds 2013 Earnings Forecast After Strong Q3

28.10.2013 - At the start of the year's fourth quarter, BASF is on track to match its 2012 sales and earnings figures again in 2013, despite the continued "challenging" environment and the fact...

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Ineos to Reopen Grangemouth After Unions and UK Make Concessions

25.10.2013 - Ineos said on Oct. 25 it would restart all production units at Grangemouth "immediately," after shuttering them on Oct. 15 at the height of its long-running dispute with the trade...

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Glimmer of Hope for Grangemouth After Union Rethink

24.10.2013 - Following a meeting between shop stewards of the Scottish trade union United and representatives of Ineos management on the morning of Oct. 24, it appeared as if the union was...

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Jim Ratcliffe: Ineos Not Bluffing On Closure Of Scotland's Grangemouth Refinery

21.10.2013 - Ineos is not bluffing with its plan to shut Scotland's Grangemouth oil refinery within weeks unless workers agree by a Monday deadline to accept proposed cuts in terms and...

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Shale: No End in Sight

17.10.2013 - North Dakota's rapidly rising oil output continues to defy the skeptics, who have predicted that production would stop growing as declining output from existing wells offsets extra...