http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 7:25:24 EDT Reliance Industries is in talks with Brazilian oil company Petrobras to set up two petrochemical joint ventures in Brazil, which could involve a total investment of up to $6 billion, according... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/13749.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Reliance Industries is in talks with Brazilian oil company Petrobras for setting up two petrochemical joint ventures in Brazil... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/13732.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Braskem (São Paulo) reported second-quarter net income up 36%, to R383 million ($244 million), compared with the year-ago period. Braskem attributes the increase primarily to positive... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/13605.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Oxiteno parent company Grupo Ultra (Sáo Paulo) has agreed to purchase the Texaco brand fuels marketing business in Brazil from... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/13608.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Braskem says it has signed an agreement with Brazil’s state-owned oil firm Petrobras and Peru’s state-owned oil firm PetroPeru to study a petrochemical... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/13640.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT BASF says it has widened the scope of a previously announced divestment of the company's global styrenics business and has reorganized the activities in preparation for the sale. The... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/13687.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT U.K. government body the Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA; St. Leonards-on-Sea, U.K.) in its first monthly report on the supply of biofuels in the U.K. has identified that between mid-April to... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/13549.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Shell and ExxonMobil say they have abandoned plans to divest Infineum International (Milton Hill, U.K.), their 50-50 fuel and lubricant additives joint venture. Shell and ExxonMobil announced... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/argentina/13392.html Mon, 4 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Methanex says it is considering building a coal-fired power plant at Cabo Negro, Chile that would allow natural gas used for the company’s methanol plants’ electricity needs to be... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/13429.html Mon, 4 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) says it plans to spend $1 billion by 2010 on projects that include capacity expansions for potassium-based products, iodine, nitrates, and lithium carbonate. The most significant project will boost its combined capacity... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/13216.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT