Within five years, higher manufacturing exports due to a widening cost advantage over China and other major economies could add $20 billion to $60 billion in output to Mexico's economy annually. And due to the North America Free Trade ...
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BASF will increase its global capacities for producing the chemical intermediate 1,4?butanediol (BDO) and the BDO derivative PolyTHF (chemical name: polytetramethylene ether glycol, PTMEG) within the coming two years. BASF's annual BDO ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, coating, paint
European over-the-counter natural gas market volumes in June jumped 20.6% from the previous year, boosted by strong growth on the German GASPOOL, French PEG Nord and Austrian VTP hubs, according to data published by the London Energy ...
The world of trucks fuelled by natural gas has changed significantly with the announcement that Westport Innovations has acquired BAF Technologies (BAF) and its subsidiary, ServoTech Engineering (ServoTech), both of them in turn ...
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Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling ...
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The response of Asian and global markets to US liquefied natural gas exports will be much stronger and will happen much sooner than many anticipate, putting strong downward pressure on Asian prices, Rice University fellow Kenneth Medlock ...
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Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek, made net investments of S$4 billion ($3.16 billion) in its energy and resources portfolio in the year to March 31, the fund said Thursday. The new investments included acquiring an additional 5% ...
China's state-owned offshore monopoly producer China National Offshore Oil Corp says it supports the Chinese government's position over Japan's recent protests about Chinese drilling activity in the East China Sea. "We do not understand ...
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Minnetonka, Minn.-based NatureWorks LLC — developer of Ingeo? lactides and biopolymers derived from 100-percent annually renewable resources including agricultural feedstocks — and Menlo Park, Calif.-based Calysta Energy Inc. ...
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The survey has been conducted by Germany's plastic trade association Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen (IK). In a statement, IK said: "Foreign enterprises are able to calculate with much lower energy costs: at times power costs ...
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Alaska has extended an agreement with TransCanada that sees the state offer subsidies for the firm's work on a natural gas pipeline and LNG export project in the state, a state official said Wednesday. The previous agreement expired June ...
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Shell is proceeding with front-end engineering and design work for its proposed LNG import facility in Batangas, Philippines, it said Sunday. The decision comes a year after Shell signed a memorandum of understanding with the Philippines' ...
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Nearly a decade after re-entering the US Gulf of Mexico and five years into its shale play foray onshore, Statoil is now an operator in both arenas, a coup for the Norwegian company best known for harsh-environment marine operations. ...
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China and other countries need to allow more open access and competition for their shale gas industries if they want to duplicate North America's success in exploiting the resource, a senior official at BP Plc said. "It did happen in the ...
The NYMEX August natural gas futures contract posted a preliminary settlement price of $3.577/MMBtu Monday, 1.2 cents higher than on Friday, after trading sideways on low cooling demand in the central and south-central US and some ...
Tags: Gas Futures, Chemicals