Reliance Industries may be looking to form a joint venture with Atlas Energy (Moon Township, PA) to develop the company’s Marcellus Shale gas operations, according to media reports. The move comes in the wake of Reliance’s failed attempts...
Nova Chemicals says that reduced shipments of natural gas through Alberta are likely to constrain its ethane feedstock supplies for its Joffre, AB site this year....
A consortium of 28 companies and research institutes has begun a four-year project to develop an efficient biorefinery system for converting biomass into final chemical products. Named EuroBioRef, the project aims to increase the “economic...
The most read article of the week on CW 247 by a country mile is our magazine cover story about Dow Chemical’s journey from the depths of the recession in early 2009, to recovery early this year. It’s a theme that has resonance across the...
Energy efficiency measures implemented by BASF in 2009 are set to make annual energy savings for the company totalling €39 million ($53 million), the company says. The savings are detailed in the firm’s 2009 annual report which is due...
BP, Caterpillar and ConocoPhillips say they will not renew their memberships in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP; Washington), leaving Shell as the sole oil major left in the group. USCAP, a coalition of environmental groups and companies, supports...
Some start-ups entering the biofuels sector already are revealing themselves as winners in certain market applications even though there is no shortage of mature biofuel companies, according to a new report by Lux Research (Boston, MA), a financial analyst...
A committee representing European Union (EU) member states has accepted a European Commission proposal to direct funds raised from the region’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) into projects for carbon capture and storage (CCS), and renewable fuels and...
ZeaChem (Lakewood, CO), a bioprocessing firm, says it has successfully tested a fermentation process for manufacturing acetic acid from renewable biomass to a scale of 5,000 liters, up from laboratory scale of 0.5 liters. The production of acetic acid is the...
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