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From UK to Turkey all Europe is working on shale gas In December 2012, UK made the most noticeable step in Europe when ending the moratorium on fracking process after the Blackpool tremors in 2011. At that time not only UK lifted the fraking ban but also unveiled tax breaks and advertised to become the […]
BASF awards Fluor Ludwigshafen TDI EPCM contract On February 19th 2013, the Germany-based BASF chemical company selected the Fluor from the USA to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the new toluene diisocyanate (TDI) production in the Ludwigshafen chemical complex. Ludwigshafen is already one of the largest chemical complex in the world […]
Energizing Chemistry Lanxess AG (Lanxess) is a young company founded in 2005 with 150 years of history in the chemical industry as the result of Bayer strategic spin off of plastics and synthetic rubber assets. Still home-based with Bayer in Leverkusen, Germany, will relocate headquarters next door in Cologne, in 2013. Lanxess is covering 31 […]
The world leader in gases for industry Air Liquide was founded in France in 1902 from two scientists and inventors who got the idea to liquefied air to separate the gases and produce oxygen. Today, Air Liquide is operating in 80 countries with 46,200 employees but still focusing on the air separation for all industries […]
Foster Wheeler awarded EPC management contract On September 2012, the chemical company Lanxess AG (Lanxess) decided to build the world largest ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) plant at Changzhou, in the Jiangsu Province, China. Actually based in Leverkusen, Germany, Lanxess was established in 2005 as a separate company with a new brand from the spin off of […]
Shell to invest $20 billion in LNG and GTL for 2012 – 15 During Investors day in London, the major Royal Dutch Shell plc ( Shell) presented last week, its vision on the gas future global market and its strategy to sustain a profitable growth and market leadership in this sector. Compared with the other major […]
ADCO receives bids on Bab Gas Compression Phase 2 Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) is receiving the technical and commercial offers of the engineering companies in competition for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of the Bab Gas Compression Project phase 2. ADCO is the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) […]
BASF runs into upstream while Gazprom goes west On November 12th, 2012, the German chemical company BASF and the Russian Gazprom signed a binding basic agreement to swap assets estimated of the same value. The assets selected to support the swap reflect the strategy of both companies: – BASF to increase its position in the oil […]
