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Strong global recovery at the start of the year continued into the second quarter, with almost all markets and product segments reporting very favourable volume trends. Net sales rose by 19% to SEK 7,428 million (corresponding period last year SEK 6,268 m), despite negative ...
MEK market was bearish early in July. Some MEK producers stopped production and held low inventories, so their offers were firm while users slowed purchasing, leading to stalemated transactions. Late last week/early this week, producers lifted producers and then traders and ...
With a 20,000 tonne/year polytetramethylene ether glycol (PTMEG) unit and a 20,000 tonne/year tetrafluoroethane (R-134a or HFC-134a) facility running at high load, Zhang Haibing, General Manager of Sinochem s Taicang industrial park, who was supervising production safety on site ...
China s National Development and Reform Commission reported that China s climate had changed a lot in recent 100 years with its mean annual temperature up by 0.5 0.8 . According to China's National Climate Change Program issued by the National Development and Reform Commission ...
Japan and China have started talks on a treaty to allow joint natural gas development in disputed East China Sea areas. The talks follow an agreement struck in May between Chinese premier Wen Jiabao and Japan's former premier Yukio Hatoyama to start formal negotiations on the ...
Not even 24 hours after Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced an already stripped-down oil spill/energy bill yesterday, it has already encountered a string of obstacles. Led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans attacked the bill's removal of a liability cap ...
Russia will retain tax breaks in 2011 for producers developing new oil and gas deposits that require large capital outlays, though an extraction tax increase will go ahead, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. Tax increases are necessary for the government to meet its spending ...
European ethanol output in 2009 increased by 31% year on year to an estimated 3.7 billion liters, with France and Germany leading the way, European bioethanol fuel producers association eBio said Wednesday. According to data from the association, France produced 1.25 million ...
Shenzhen-listed Oriental Energy, one of eastern China's major importers of LPG, has been unable to re-export imported LPG cargoes from its Ningbo bonded LPG terminal as Asian LPG prices have been on a downward trend since May, company sources said Wednesday. "We have been looking ...
South Korea saw its share in China's bitumen import mix shrank to 67% in the first half of 2010, the data from General Administration of Customs (GAC) showed. It was the first time for the country to record a lower-than-70% share. Some of its market shares were snatched by ...
July ethylene prices in the US could move lower as sources this week anticipated a possible 2-3 cents/lb drop in the July contract. Sources pointed to the gulf between current spot levels and the June contract as justification for a potential decrease. July spot offers were seen ...
Spot prices for delivered cargoes of North Sea butane have started to strengthen on the back of increased demand, according to industry sources. During the summer period North Sea butane is used as a petrochemical feedstock substitute for naphtha and also a feedstock for the ...
Gross natural gas production in the UK fell 14.3% in 2009, according to the Digest of UK Energy Statistics 2010, published Thursday by National Statistics. Gross natural gas production has fallen by 45% since its peak in 2000, and net imports of gas accounted for a third of gas ...
The government is not investing heavily enough in the development of biofuels, the CEO of Caltex Australia, the country's largest refiner, said Thursday. "Biofuels and other alternative fuels can be a significant part of Australia's future fuel mix but policymakers need to put in ...
Norway's Statoil would like to join the group of oil companies committed to developing an initial $1 billion program to develop a rapid response system for deepwater well blowouts following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Statoil CEO Helge Lund told a press conference in Oslo ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association announced last week that it was reopening one-third of previously closed Gulf of Mexico fishing waters since no oil had been observed in the area for over 30 days. The 26,388 square miles of the Gulf was reopened to both commercial ...
CHICAGO, July 29-The length of an oil spill along the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan has more than doubled from previous estimates, local official said Wednesday. An oil sheen has been detected on the surface of the major river roughly 35 miles (56 kilometers) downstream ...
Veolia Water North America (Veolia Water) has unveiled the Water Impact Index, the first indicator enabling a comprehensive assessment of the impact of human activity on water resources. The company also announced what is believed to be the first-ever simultaneous analysis of ...
Existing US legislation regulating toxic chemicals has proven an inadequate tool for protecting the public against chemical risks, a senior Environmental Protection Agency official told a House panel Thursday. When the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act was enacted in 1976, it grandfathe...
The House of Representatives is starting to move legislation that would fundamentally overhaul chemical laws for the first time in over three decades. The Toxic Chemicals Safety Act, H.R. 5820, introduced last week by Reps. Bobby L. Rush D-IL and Henry Waxman D-CA , seeks to ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
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IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
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Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
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Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...