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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
BRASKEM
Operating profit increases in Q4 and full year 2014 / Recovery in petrochemical prices helps drive revenues up / PP sales volumes rise in US and European business / Comperj to be axed?
19.02.2015
SABIC
Yousef al-Benyan to serve as interim CEO / Mohamed al-Mady receives new post by royal decree
18.02.2015
ARAB GULF STATES
2014 capacity utilisation levels return to long-term average / EU import duties put pressure on polymer exports / Polyolefin overcapacity? / Plastics processing sector still in its infancy / Plans for four large conversion sites
17.02.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Borealis declares force majeure for olefins from Stenungsund / Polymers not yet affected
16.02.2015
INEOS
Ineos says Scottish plans for fracking moratorium threaten Grangemouth's existence / Imports deemed not sufficient to cover feedstock needs of mammoth complex
13.02.2015
DSM
Weak caprolactam margins contribute to 7% drop in 2014 EBITDA / Plans to combine three businesses ahead of possible sale
13.02.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Lucite declares force majeure for MMA from Billingham / PMMA availability expected to tighten
11.02.2015
SAUDI KAYAN
Increased ethane supply allocation for Al Jubail / PE expansion on stream from 2017
11.02.2015
SHALE GAS
Poland: US oil group Chevron pulling out of shale gas exploration / Opportunities said to be no longer competitive
10.02.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
India's Haldia restarts its cracker and downstream units / Oil price slide alleviates financial woes
09.02.2015
ZHEJIANG SHAOXING SANJIN PETROCHEMICAL
Propylene plant starts up in China
03.02.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Shell's Moerdijk cracker unlikely to restart until end of 2015 / Porto Marghera ramping up to fill the void
02.02.2015
DOW CHEMICAL
Ninth consecutive quarter of operating profit growth / Adjusted EBITDA reaches USD 9.3 bn in 2014 / Sales up 2% at USD 58.2 bn / Performance Plastics records highest growth
02.02.2015
DUPONT
Full-year results hold steady / Higher polymer volumes boost Q4 results
02.02.2015
SHELL
Plans to build USD 11 bn cracker and downstream petrochemicals hub in Iraq
30.01.2015
SASOL
US-based upstream plans shelved for now / Commitment to ethane cracker and PE lines reconfirmed
30.01.2015
KARPATNEFTEKHIM
Reports allege that Ukrainian Lukoil subsidiary could resume PE, PVC production in spring / Ongoing feuds likely to constitute an obstacle
29.01.2015
SKC / MITSUI
Follow-up: PU joint venture to cease operating Kashima TDI and Omuta MDI facilities in May 2016 / Plans to set up XDI and speciality isocyanates facilities
28.01.2015
REPSOL
Puertollano modernisation efforts begin / Works expected to take two months / EVA debottlenecking / PP output switched
27.01.2015
BASF
Butanediol capacity expansion in Geismar
23.01.2015
KUIBYSHEVAZOT
Raising caprolactam output / Latest investment project receives financial backing from Rusnano
23.01.2015
QATAR PETROLEUM
Al Karaana petrochemicals joint venture with Shell scrapped / Prohibitive capital costs
16.01.2015
UPDATE - VERSALIS
Reports indicate that Porto Marghera cracker is in start-up mode / Shell allegedly contracted for olefin volumes
15.01.2015
CELANESE
Amsterdam becomes new Europe HQ / Sulzbach loses several key functions
14.01.2015
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