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HOUSTON, May 20-British oil company BP said Thursday a mile-long tube inserted into a undersea gusher over the weekend was now siphoning 5,000 barrels of oil a day. "The oil plume escaping from the riser pipe has visibly declined today," BP spokesman Mark Proegler said after BP ...
SINGAPORE ,May 20-Petrochemical prices in Asia plunged this week, partly due to destocking activities, with a strong likelihood of further declines amid high inventory levels and prevailing poor market sentiment, market players said on Thursday. Mounting concerns over Europe s ...
May 20-Keynote speaker Sir Richard Needham engaged conference delegates with a trenchant address to open the Moulding Business Debate at the PDM10 trade show, Telford, on Tuesday (18 May). The director for international and commercial affairs (and sometime deputy chairman) at ...
May 20-This year's German-Brazilian Economic Meeting in Munich on 31 May and 1 June will focus particularly on major upcoming sporting events to be held in Brazil. Bayer MaterialScience will present innovative concepts based on plastic sheeting in its Makrolon material, ...
HOUSTON ,May 20-BP is capturing 5,000 bbl/day of oil and 15m cubic feet/day of natural gas from a leaking well nearly a mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico, acknowledging that earlier estimates of the size of the leak were too small, the company said on Thursday. The siphoning rate ...
HOUSTON ,May 19-Supplies of oleic fatty acids are tightening as the material is being used to make dispersants - a key product that BP is using to break up a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, buyers and sellers said on Wednesday. Price is not a problem, one fatty acid ...
May 18-A Hungarian waste handling company, PCP Z ldenergia, has won ?5m in state aid to establish a country-wide network of 25 recycling plants for plastics scrap. The new plants, due to be up and running within two years, will each process up to 12,000 tpa of plastics waste, ...
May 18-The new Brazilian owners of Sunoco Chemicals Inc. this week named a chief executive officer for their new North American subsidiary, based in Philadelphia. Carlos Fadigas, 40, took the helm of Braskem America on Monday, a month after Braskem SA completed the $350 million ...
GUANGZHOU, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Seawater pollution remains serious in the coastal waters off South China's Guangdong Province, where the marine ecological environment continues to deteriorate, according to local maritime authorities. The seawater quality of the prosperous province ...
HOUSTON, May 19-British oil giant BP said Wednesday it hopes to start a technology known as "top kill" on Sunday or early next week to stop the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The so-called "top kill" is a two-step process where first, plugging agents are pumped into the ...
May 10-Spanish hotel group NH Hoteles is set to use oxo-degradable additives in plastic products after striking a deal with Symphony. Speaking at a press conference in London, NH chief executive Gabriele Burgio said the deal with Symphony is part of its drive to become one of the ...
NEW YORK, May 08 - Oil fell $2 a barrel on Friday and posted its biggest weekly loss in almost a year and a half following the sharp sell-off on Wall Street and on worries that the euro zone's debt crisis will derail the global economic recovery. Better-than-expected US jobs data ...
LONDON,April 30 --Tessenderlo's first quarter earnings were dragged down by weak performance in the chlor-alkali chain, the Belgian company said on Friday. Revenue for the PVC (polyvinyl chloride)/chlor-alkali segment decreased by 5.9% from the same period in 2009 to ?18.2m ($155...
SINGAPORE May 03-US President Barack Obama said on Monday that UK s BP will shoulder the full cost of cleaning up the massive oil spill that was threatening to reach US shores, even as the government is helping out in the effort to mitigate a potentially unprecedented environment...
HOUSTON,May 03 - An ever-growing oil slick in the US Gulf could soon create supply issues for refiners and chemical producers in the area, although ports on the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts said on Monday that they were still open to ship traffic. The 20 April ...
NEW YORK, May 3-Oil prices inched higher on Monday as upbeat personal spending data and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico weighed on the market. Positive economic data boosted investors' confidence in recovery. The Commerce Department reported that U.S. consumer spending rose twice ...
p> Eastman Chemical Co. announced earnings of $1.37 per diluted share for first quarter 2010 vs. 3 cents per diluted share for first quarter 2009. Excluding restructuring charges of $26 million, first quarter 2009 earnings were 25 cents per diluted share. With volumes recovering ...
p> PUWORLD(2010-4-26) Four new methanol facilities with capacity of nearly 3.96 mt/y will start commercial operation at the second half of this year. According to market sources, these newly-built capacities will mainly supply to the Asia, so as to ease the tense situation at ...
p> PUWORLD(2010-4-26) According to Asiachem Consulting, MEG production capacity in China was predicted to reach approximately 4000kt/y by the end of 2010, including adjusted 150kt/y coal-based MEG capacity built by Tongliao Jinmei. Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical s 650kt/y ...
p> China s economy grew at an accelerated rate of 11.9 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2010 to US$1.19 trillion, 5.7 percentage points higher than the corresponding period the previous year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The economy grew at the ...
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