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Scotland may Seek Formal Fracking Ban

22.05.2018 - The hearing on the Ineos challenge to Scotland’s permanent moratorium on fracking ended last week, and no verdict is expected to come before October. But after the Scotland counsel...

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Ineos Shale Reveals English Midlands Timetable

17.05.2017 - With roads to fracking across Scotland’s Central Belt still blocked by an ongoing moratorium and public consultation, Ineos is pressing ahead with plans to explore for shale gas in...

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Russia and Exxon Seek to Resolve Tax Dispute

05.05.2017 - A Stockholm, Sweden, arbitration court has postponed a hearing in a tax dispute between the Russian finance ministry and US oil and petrochemials ExxonMobil while the disputing...

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Ineos Buys Engie UK Fracking Licenses

10.03.2017 - Ineos Shale said it has completed the acquisition of the entire UK onshore petroleum exploration and development license interests of Engie E&P UK, increasing the area covered by...

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Ineos May Invoke Mining Act Over Fracking

08.02.2017 - Days after Scotland launched a four-month public consultation on fracking, which exploration companies and environmentalists alike hope will see their position confirmed, olefins...

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Scotland Launches Fracking Referendum

03.02.2017 - Fracking could provide “important benefits” for the petrochemical sector, the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP)-led government said at the official launch of a public consultation...

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Ineos Opens new UK Headquarters

08.12.2016 - Olefins and polyolefins giant Ineos, headquartered in Switzerland for the past six years, has officially opened a second corporate base in the UK after quitting the country for tax...

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Braskem Reevaluating West Virginia Cracker

21.04.2015 - Brazilian chemical giant Braskem is reviewing plans to build a world-scale ethane-fed cracker and downstream polyethylene plants in Parkersburg in the US state of West Virginia in...