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Major fire at Iran's Bandar Imam economic zone hits naphtha tank, aromatics units / No known casualties / Paraxylene leakage suspected / Restart in several weeks
12.07.2016
W. R. GRACE
Takeover of BASF's catalyst business wrapped up
07.07.2016
LANXESS
Phthalic anhydride capacity expansion in Germany
06.07.2016
SHALE GAS
German cabinet finally agrees fracking rules / Federal states to decide on test drills
28.06.2016
COVESTRO
Board nods off doubling of MDI capacity at German site / Completion expected in late 2018
28.06.2016
DOW
First foreign company to receive Saudi trading licence / Diversification of economy
27.06.2016
TOTAL
French refineries and crackers almost back to normal operations
23.06.2016
BRASKEM IDESA
Mexico's “Etileno XXI” hub is officially inaugurated
23.06.2016
AXIALL / LOTTE
Groundbreaking ceremony for Louisiana ethane cracker / Start-up expected in 2019
17.06.2016
NOVA CHEMICALS
Additional LLDPE plant in Canada to start up in Q4 / Corunna cracker switches to shale gas
15.06.2016
FRANCE
Situation on petrochemicals front appears to be easing / Pilots announce strikes coinciding with start of UEFA Championship
10.06.2016
BOREALIS
Finland cracker to be expanded / Lifting propylene and butadiene output
09.06.2016
SHELL
Green light for US shale gas-fed cracker complex in Pennsylvania / Downstream units for 1.6m t/y of PE / Location close to North American plastics customers
09.06.2016
LANXESS
Leverkusen flame retardant storage facility is expanded
09.06.2016
BASF
US methane-to-propylene plant on hold / Volatile pricing hits shale gas projects
08.06.2016
SHALE GAS
Non-binding vote to ban fracking passes Scottish Parliament / Ineos “focused on England” / Crotty says Scotland will “miss out”
07.06.2016
HONEYWELL
Groundbreaking for MTO catalysts line in China / Eight MTO plants licensed as China cut reliance on oil imports
01.06.2016
FRANCE
Strikes widened to include nuclear plants / Refinery blockade hits plastics converters
27.05.2016
SK INNOVATION
New propylene dehydrogenation plant inaugurated in South Korea / Saudi and Kuwaiti partners
26.05.2016
FRANCE
Police slowly clear union barricades blocking refineries / Public mood flags / Union threatens to extend strikes to rail and nuclear plants / More force majeure declarations
25.05.2016
FRANCE
Petrochemical output increasingly threatened by strike / Most refineries affected / Many FM declarations / Minister says the country has been taken hostage
25.05.2016
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
PE, PP, PS: Strike leads Total to declare force majeure for Gonfreville / Other sites also affected
19.05.2016
DOMO CHEMICALS
Future benzene deliveries in eastern Germany to come by pipeline / Massive investment project with partner Total Leuna
11.05.2016
BOREALIS
Naming ceremony for massive ethane carrier / US shipments to Stenungsund expected to commence in Q4
09.05.2016
UNIPETROL
Fire-damaged cracker to resume partial operation in August / Q1 profits hit by outage / Construction of new PE plant to begin in June
02.05.2016
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