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Oiltanking Odfjell Opens Tank Storage Terminal in Oman
Oiltanking Odfjell Terminals & Co. (OOTO) has started operations at a recently completed tank storage terminal at Sohar, Oman. OOTO commissioned 322,000 cu meters of tank storage capacity for chemicals and clean...

Oman Seeks Styrene Technology Offers
Oman Refineries and Petrochemicals Co. (ORPC; Muscat) has invited process licensers to submit...

Israel Chemicals Second-Quarter Profits Soar
Israel Chemicals Ltd. (ICL; Tel Aviv) has reported a 445% increase in net profits to $703.2 million for the second quarter ended June 30. And sales for the period increased by 116% to $2.07 billion. The rise in sales was driven by ICL Fertilizers business...

Sun Pharma Gets U.S. FTC Approval for Taro Tender Offer
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (Mumbai) says the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC; Washington DC) has given clearance for the previously announced tender offer by Alkaloida Chemical Company Exclusive Group (Tiszavasvari, Hungary), a subsidiary of...

Octal Plans Further PET Expansion
Octal (Muscat) says it will boost capacity of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins by an additional 500,000 m.t./year at Salalah, Oman by May 2010. The company says the resins will supply bottled beverage markets in Europe, the...

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