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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
SHALE GAS
Sunoco sends first natural gas delivery via pipeline to Philadelphia / Project for ethane shipments to Europe on schedule
09.01.2015
BOREALIS
Challenge to Finnish tax reassessment / Company says charge is “unjustified”
09.01.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical starts C3 production using Oleflex technology / UOP process licensed to 14 other global producers to forestall propylene shortage
09.01.2015
ODFJELL
Petrochemical terminal in Le Havre scrapped / First victim of cuts in European refinery business
08.01.2015
DUPONT
Headquarters to move to Chestnut Run Plaza by July / Wilmington to become HQ of The Chemours Company
08.01.2015
SKC / MITSUI
Agreement for PU feedstock joint venture / Merger could extend lifeline to facilities previously earmarked for closure
06.01.2015
DUPONT
Performance Chemicals to be named "The Chemours Company" following spinoff / Management announced
22.12.2014
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Oxychem and Mexichem celebrate official construction start of Texas-based ethane cracker joint venture
22.12.2014
BASF
50% stake in Ellba Eastern SM/PO joint venture sold to Shell / Moerdijk jv not part of transaction
19.12.2014
DOW
Deborah Borg appointed president of Dow USA
18.12.2014
CHEVRON PHILLIPS
Ethylene capacity expansion in Texas brought on stream
15.12.2014
BASF
Breaking ground on new Mumbai-based Innovation Campus / EUR 50m investment
15.12.2014
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