A slowdown in China is the greatest threat to the global economy, Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff told BBC in a curious interview in late September. "The [Chinese] economy is slowing down much more than the official figures show." As the ...
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“Quest would be the first application of CCS technology for an oil sands upgrading operation,” says John Abbott, Shell’s Executive Vice President of Heavy Oil. “Not only would it allow us to significantly reduce the ...
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The scope under consideration includes a world-scale steam cracker, with feedstock coming from natural gas projects in Qatar; a mono-ethylene glycol plant of up to 1.5 million tonnes per annum using Shell’s proprietary OMEGA (Only MEG ...
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Qatargas, the company who pioneered the LNG Industry in Qatar, now has a production capacity of 42 mtpa of LNG, from its seven trains. This makes it the world’s largest LNG producer. Commenting on this achievement, His Excellency Dr ...
Qatargas, the company who pioneered the LNG Industry in Qatar, now has a production capacity of 42 mtpa of LNG, from its seven trains. This makes it the world’s largest LNG producer. Commenting on this achievement, His Excellency Dr ...
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Shell, which is the operator of the Pearl GTL plant developed under a Production and Sharing Agreement with QP, has opened natural gas wells offshore allowing the first sour gas to flow through a subsea pipeline into the giant GTL plant ...
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The sale marks the start of production of GTL products when the State of Qatar and Shell, the operator of the Pearl GTL plant, begin to receive revenue from the project. Over the coming months, production will ramp up from the first ...
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Shell, which opened its first hydrogen fuel station in Germany in 2011, has today signed a declaration of intent with its H2 Mobility Germany joint venture partners and Germany’s federal transport minister, Alexander Dobrindt. It will ...
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Volkswagen Group has signed a contract with SOVAC for vehicle assembly in Algeria. In the presence of the Algerian Minister of Industry Abdessellam Bouchouareb, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Board of Management Member responsible for ...
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The UK Government has unveiled £390m of funding to support the development of low emission vehicles and autonomous vehicles. The announcement was part of UK finance minister Philip Hammond's first budget speech in the Parliament. ...
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Parrish and Heimbecker has secured a funding of $10m from the Canadian government to build a new wheat flour milling plant at Hamilton. The Canadian grain company’s new plant is expected to increase production capacity of wheat ...
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Canada's Vineland Research and Innovation Centre will receive federal funding to develop new disease-resistant apple and greenhouse tomato varieties. Canada agriculture and agri-food minister Lawrence MacAulay, and Niagara Centre member ...
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The Canadian government has secured export agreement for Alberta seed potatoes to Thailand. After Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Alberta has now become the third Canadian province to get market access for seed potatoes in ...
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The Canadian government will inject a $350m into the country's dairy sector to support its competitiveness ahead of the likely implementation of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Investment ...
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The European Commission is asking the UK Government to explain about the assurances it gave to Nissan that prompted the carmaker to commit for building two new models at its Sunderland factory. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn recently met ...
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