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BRASKEM
Plans to expand LLDPE capacity in Brazil / Additional 120,000 t due on stream in 2015
25.10.2013
SIBUR
President Putin on hand to officially open PP production at Tobolsk
23.10.2013
SOCAR
PP and HDPE production to commence in Sumgayit in Azerbaijan in 2016
09.10.2013
TICONA
November price increase for UHMW-PE and VHMW-PE grades
27.09.2013
REPSOL
Expansion of German sales distribution network for polyolefins
25.09.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Formosa Plastics declares force majeure for HDPE following flash fire at US site Point Comfort
20.09.2013
SLOVNAFT PETROCHEMICALS
Ceremony for extension of LDPE production in Bratislava
17.09.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Fiery flare-offs at Versalis LDPE plant in Ferrara / Production shut down for a week
05.09.2013
TOTAL
French management prepared to close naphtha cracker / Fate of Carling site and polymer plant uncertain
02.09.2013
DOW
Sites selected in Texas and Louisiana for US plastics projects / Louisiana projects to be completed end-2016
30.08.2013
SINOPEC
Produces first commercial-grade ethylene at Wuhan facility / Commissioning now complete of petrochemicals complex
22.08.2013
LUKOIL
Postponement yet again of production activities in the Ukraine
07.08.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Versalis: Force majeure for EVA from Oberhausen facility
07.08.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
LyondellBasell: Force majeure for LDPE at Aubette
31.07.2013
INEOS
Next steps in HDPE joint venture with Sasol proceed / New 470,000 t/y facility to be ready for start up in 2015
30.07.2013
ENI
Plan to revamp Gela refinery / Project to restore efficiency and profitability / Training and safety centre planned / Biofuels research continues
26.07.2013
ORIENTAL ENERGY
Selects Ineos licence for PP process for Ningbo site / Part of expansion programme to become major player
24.07.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Unipetrol shuts down steam cracker in Litvinov following pipe rupture
19.07.2013
BOREALIS
HDPE production at Burghausen facility to be mothballed in 2014 / Company to focus on PP production
16.07.2013
CNOOC
Purchase of PE licence from Ineos for Huizhou petrochemicals site
16.07.2013
SHANXI COKING
Licence agreement for Dow's "Unipol" technology / PP plant to be ready by 2015
11.07.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Borealis: Force majeure for PP at German site Burghausen
10.07.2013
QATAR PETROLEUM
Unipol technology for PE projects at Ras Laffan / Polymer output to total 2.2m t/y
08.07.2013
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Shale Gas: US officials update estimates / Globally additional 20 bn m³ potential / Biggest discoveries in Algeria and Russia / US producers look to inexpensive ethane production
02.07.2013
LYONDELLBASELL
Spherizone technology picked for China plant / Fourth licence win from CNOOC
01.07.2013
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