Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'INEOS'
Players In Europe And Asia Are Serious About Cheap US Ethane
A fascinating guest blog post by my colleague, Nigel Davis (see below) explores how excess US ethane supply could help raise the competitiveness of European and US crackers. Provided, of course, that there is sufficient demand. By Nigel Davis IT...
Chem Q3 Results Show Flat Growth
By John Richardson CHEMICAL company third quarter financial results point to what has been apparent at ground level for some time now - a struggle to achieve volume growth over 2010. My colleague Nigel Davis, who edits in the Insight...
Economic concerns dampen EPCA meeting
By Malini Hariharan On a day when Asian stock markets tumbled on fresh worries about Europe's debt problems and a wider economic slowdown, it was not surprising to read about the downbeat mood at this year's European Petrochemical Association's (EPCA)...
Shale gas spurs optimism but questions remain
By Malini Hariharan The mood at this year's International Petrochemical Conference, hosted by the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) in San Antonio,US, is quite bullish and is evident in the reports being filed by the blog's colleagues on ICIS...
European Petchems & Future Competitiveness
By John Richardson Dear Reader We hope and pray that the nuclear crisis in Japan will be resolved and that the rebuilding process following the earthquake and tsunami can be begin. My colleagues at ICIS news are doing a comprehensive...
Edgy And Nervous CEOs In Deep Contemplation
Davos 2011 Source of picture: eacci.net By John Richardson THE edginess and nervousness of Asian polyolefin markets we talked about last week is likely to be part of the mindset of any chemicals company CEO right now. As...
What's next for PetroChina and Ineos?
By Malini Hariharan After months of talks, PetroChina finally signed a framework agreement with Ineos for partnerships in refining, trading and petrochemicals at Grangemouth in Scotland and Lavera in France. The companies will be working towards the formation of these...
Some more surprises for polyolefins
By Malini Hariharan The Wednesday post on this blog highlighted some of the unexpected turns that the Asian polyolefins market has been taking. There have been more developments over the last two days that are likely to influence markets in...
Chemical execs go long on realism
Offsetting the risk of being over-optimistic? Source of picture: thetradingpit.net MAYBE there should futures contracts in realism versus recklessness. That way any senior company executive who wants to take a punt on next year being better than 2009...
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