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April 10, 2013
Biobased plastics production requires only 0.006% of the 5-billion hectare global agricultural area, according to data recently published by industry body European Bioplastics...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Industry-association-Biobased-plastics-land-use-does-not-pose-threat-to-food-crops_51042.html April 4, 2013
Neste Oil (Espoo, Finland) has started using tall-oil pitch as a feedstock for refining into automotive-grade biofuel, the company announced today. It had not been possible until now...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Neste-uses-tall-oil-pitch-to-manufacture-biofuel_50944.html April 3, 2013
If the project is approved, construction would begin in the first half of 2014 with start-up by the second half of 2015....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Phillips-66-plans-NGL-fractionator-at-Old-Ocean-TX_50920.html March 27, 2013
The two companies will also investigate the development of petrochemical projects in Argentina based on the availability of new raw materials....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Dow-YPF-agree-to-negotiate-Argentina-shale-JV_50780.html March 26, 2013
“I think, from an Ineos point of view, we’ll look at whether we can underpin any of our assets in Europe with cheap feedstocks in one form or another from the United States," says Jim Ratcliffe, chairman of Ineos....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/AFPM-IPC-Ineos-shifting-resources-to-US-Ratcliffe_50731.html March 25, 2013
“If industry had more certainty that regulations would not change every election cycle, there would be a significant investment in infrastructure,” says AFPM president Charles Drevna....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/AFPM-IPC-Shale-gas-carrying-US-economy-Drevna_50719.html March 22, 2013
The new capacity will easily outpace shale-based expansion in North America...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/IHS-WPC-China-coal-based-olefins-MEG-investment-surging_50710.html March 22, 2013
IHS Chemical projects that by 2025, the volume will approach 250 million m.t., triple the volume of 2000 and nearly double that of 2010. ...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/IHS-WPC-Global-chemical-trade-to-boom-on-advantaged-feedstocks-Witte_50660.html March 21, 2013
Although shale gas has cut into North American benzene supply and raised prices, it has simultaneously advantaged the production of benzene derivatives...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/IHS-WPC-Shale-will-drive-benzene-derivatives-in-North-America_50684.html March 21, 2013
As new investments come into North America, production will increase, and much of it will be directed to international markets, says Gary Adams, chief advisor at IHS Chemical....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/IHS-WPC-State-of-the-industry-is-a-matter-of-feedstock-opportunities-Adams_50658.html March 21, 2013
Weaker demand growth coupled with stronger rates of capacity expansion has dampened the profit outlook for ethylene, particularly for high-cost producers that use heavier feedstocks, says Mark Eramo, v.p./chemical market insights for IHS Chemical....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/IHS-WPC-Ethylene-profit-outlook-muted-by-weaker-demand-supply-surge-Eramo_50683.html March 21, 2013
The UK chemical industry has welcomed a package of measures announced by the UK government to boost the country's fledgling shale gas industry. UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/UK-chemical-industry-welcomes-government-boost-to-shale-gas-development_50667.html March 21, 2013
Global GDP growth should stabilize at 2.6% in 2013, says Nariman Behravesh, IHS chief economist. Gradual improvement should push global GDP to an annualized rate of 3.5% by the end of the year. US and Asian economies are leading the way, he adds....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/IHS-WPC-Economic-and-energy-outlooks-improving_50659.html March 19, 2013
Europe’s approach to shale remains cautious. The European petrochemical industry’s hopes that shale exploration and exploitation will take hold, as it is in the United States, continue to be tempered by sociopolitical pressures at the EU decision-making level....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Shale-gas-Europe-is-taking-too-long_50552.html March 19, 2013
Shale gas development has granted the US chemical industry a renewed lease on life by driving costs down, pushing margins up, and attracting a flood of capital investment. ...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Petrochemicals-Shale-reopens-the-tap-on-US-production_50551.html March 19, 2013
Versalis, the chemicals arm of ENI (Rome), and the tire major Pirelli have entered into a memorandum of understanding to carry out joint research into the use of guayule-based natural...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Versalis-and-Pirelli-sign-R-and-D-agreement-to-use-guayule-based-natural-rubber-in-tire-production_50612.html March 8, 2013
The expansion increases Enterprise’s loading capacity for low-ethane propane from 4 million bbl/month to 7.5 million bbl/month....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Enterprise-completes-LPG-export-expansion_50329.html March 6, 2013
To protect their newly advantaged cost position, some US chemical producers are inviting government intervention into the natural gas market, but they are making a mistake, said...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/ExxonMobils-Pryor-defends-LNG-exports_50279.html February 26, 2013
TPC expects engineering design optimization for the project to be complete by the end of the third quarter of 2013, with start-up to come in 2016....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/TPC-gets-green-light-for-on-purpose-butadiene_50065.html February 14, 2013
The issue is not free trade, says Liveris, because there is no global free market for natural gas....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Liveris-presses-US-Senate-for-a-restrained-incremental-approach-to-exports_49855.html |
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