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INTERNATIONAL PLASTICS INDUSTRY Most producers see sales and earnings improvement in 2014 / Cautious optimism for 2015 / Falling raw materials prices and strengthening demand provide impetus / Currency shift will boost European companies	06.03.2015
SHALE GAS Chevron to quit Romania, too / Oil multinational will close European exploration chapter	25.02.2015
ENI / VERSALIS Operating loss in Q4 halved / Demand weakness bites / Intermediates and PE margins improve / Plan to close Porto Marghera cracker put on ice	20.02.2015
SHALE GAS Poland: US oil group Chevron pulling out of shale gas exploration / Opportunities said to be no longer competitive	10.02.2015
UPDATE - VERSALIS Reports indicate that Porto Marghera cracker is in start-up mode / Shell allegedly contracted for olefin volumes	15.01.2015
YEAR IN REVIEW 2014 Part 2 – Plastics Production: Shale gas revolution drives Europe into a corner / Ailing facilities are consolidated / Massive changes in PVC market / Shale oil reserves change the balance once again	12.12.2014
ITALY Petchem industry trying to shake off an uncertain past / Going green / Many obstacles still remain	05.12.2014
EDITORIAL Italy continues to go "green"	24.11.2014
VERSALIS Dunkirk cracker to be converted to ethane feedstock / Imports of US shale gas	21.10.2014
ENI / VERSALIS Petrochemical processing units of Sardinian refinery in Sarroch sold to Saras	06.10.2014
ENI / VERSALIS Porto Marghera cracker to be permanently closed / Conversion to bioplastics hub confirmed	25.09.2014
TOTAL CEO De Margerie: “We need to act now!” / Plans to restructure refineries and petrochemical facilities	02.09.2014
ENI / VERSALIS Reprieve for Porto Marghera and Gela sites / National roundtable on restructuring in September / Conversion to renewables hub confirmed	06.08.2014
ENI / VERSALIS Italy braces for another strike over envisaged refinery closures / Nationwide demonstration planned in Rome for 29 July	23.07.2014
TAIWAN Petrochemicals Group CPC shuts down cracker in Kaohsiung / Shale gas shock wave rolls on	15.07.2014
VERSALIS / ENI Update: Four Italian refinery and petrochemical sites threatened with closure / Eni informs unions / Protests planned	10.07.2014
VERSALIS Unions strike to protest delayed restart of Porto Marghera cracker / Conversion to renewables hub also in doubt	09.07.2014
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS Versalis lifts FM for EVA from Oberhausen	05.06.2014
VERSALIS Major revamp at Porto Marghera to cost EUR 200m / Six-month shutdown / Unions agree	13.02.2014
VERSALIS MoU with Elevance to develop metathesis technology for vegetable oil-based bio-chemicals / Plans for world-scale facility in Porto Marghera	11.02.2014
BRASKEM Agreement with Genomatica to develop bio-based butadiene process / Genomatica butadiene programme extended into the Americas	16.01.2014
YEAR IN REVIEW 2013 Part 1 – General overview: US shale gas boom has European plastics players worried / Commodity sectors dogged by overcapacity, insolvencies / Italy goes all out for biopolymers / Mixed picture for European converters	13.12.2013
VERSALIS Styrene rubber site in Hythe to close / New elastomer joint venture with Lotte in South Korea	13.11.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS Fiery flare-offs at Versalis LDPE plant in Ferrara / Production shut down for a week	05.09.2013
VERSALIS Plans to produce hydrocarbon resins at Priolo site / Agreement with Neville Venture	12.08.2013

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