House Republicans on Friday criticized an Obama administration study of hydraulic fracturing as unnecessary and plagued by delays and excessive costs. "We all want to ensure safe and responsible production of oil and natural gas, but the ...
Tags: Chemicals
While US policymakers, legislators and others are focused on whether the fundamentals of US gas market would change significantly if large volumes of LNG are exported, there are emerging questions about the federal government's ability to ...
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Aquatech has formally opened its central water treatment facility in Tioga County, PA in the USA. The Tioga plant utilizes Aquatech’s MoSuite™ set of technologies to deliver a menu of wastewater treatment and recycle services. ...
The chairman of the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday criticized the Obama administration for failing to adequately fund research into making sure hydraulic fracturing and nuclear waste storage is safe. During a ...
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Marubeni and SK Shipping to co-own two LNG vessels for long-term charter to TOTAL Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013 Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) in collaboration with (Korea) SK Shipping Co., Ltd. (SK Shipping) has concluded long-term charter ...
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Japan's Marubeni plans to begin transporting LNG from the US to South Korea via a joint venture with a major South Korean shipping group, the Nikkei newspaper reported Friday. The Japanese trading house and SK Shipping have jointly ...
President Barack Obama's nominee for energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, on Tuesday reiterated the Obama administration's position that decisions to license liquefied natural gas exports from the US should be based on a transparent, analytic ...
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To help its power-generation customers meet particulate emissions with greater filtration efficiency, GE has introduced a new bi-component felt media for construction of fabric filters used in coal-fired boiler baghouses. GE says that the ...
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Kuraray will break ground on a greenfield Kuraray Poval (PVOH) plant located in La Porte, Texas. This new plant will add to Kuraray's vast portfolio of manufacturing in the United States, including EVAL (ethylene vinyl acetate) and SEPTON ...
Tags: Textile, Chemicals, ethylene vinyl acetate, co-block thermo-elastomers
Agah Ugur, the CEO of Borusan Holding announced to invest US$400 million in a new steel pipe line and energy. It also owns Turkey’s largest steel pipe mill, Borusan Mannesmann Boru (BMB). Meanwhile, Ugur said that the company is ...
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The Ohio Office of Budget and Management Controlling Board has announced Clean Ohio Assistance funds to demolish the two blast furnaces, boiler house and annealing building at RG Steel's former Steubenville, Ohio flat rolled steel mill. The ...
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China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2012. Financial Highlights: In accordance with the PRC Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises, in 2012, the Company's operating ...
To be able to withstand the challenge from low priced petrochemicals from the US in future, Asia’s biggest retailer, Sinopec Corp, earlier called China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, is gearing up to reduce its petrochemical production ...
Effective April 1 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. of Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, will jointly establish MI LNG Company, Limited, a company to handle the design and marketing of LNG (liquefied ...
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US spot styrene margins are poised to remain flat to slightly higher following the procurement of cheaper feedstock ethylene estimated to begin in 2015-2016 as a result of the shale gas plays, industry sources said Monday on the sidelines ...
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