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• Your YouTube viewing habits made public

  A word of warning for Blog readers who have delighted in chemical industry spectacular videos like " INEOS Dormagen Fire ", " Global News Meeting Houston ", " EPCA Berlin 2007 ", " APLA 2007 Buenos Aires " and many... Posted Jul 04 2008, 02:10 PM by ICIS Chemicals Confidential Filed under: video, BBC, movies, APLA, EPCA, Houston, Ineos, hi-tech, corporate life, Google, YouTube

• Movie Trailer: Burn Up

  Another oil movie is on its way. This time it's a two-part thriller called " Burn Up " to be shown by the BBC in July, set in the worlds of oil, politics and global warrning. Neve Campbell plays an environmentalist who works for a British... Posted Jun 25 2008, 09:35 AM by ICIS Chemicals Confidential Filed under: BBC, movies, Burn Up, Neve Campbell

• Green-struck Hollywood

  The land of glitter and glamor added green to their fashionable G-list. To coincide with the recently released "the Incredible Hulk", Universal Studio hooked up with conservation group the World Land Trust in developing the ' Incredible... Posted Jun 17 2008, 12:30 PM by Green Chemicals Filed under: movies, green, General, TV, show, Hollywood

• ICIS news editor in Wall Street Journal

  ICIS news editor Americas, John Waggoner was quoted in the Wall Street Journal's MarketBeat blog on Friday . In an article entitled "One Word: Plastics", harking back to the famous advice in "The Graduate" but perhaps not so wise... Posted Jun 16 2008, 09:16 PM by ICIS Chemicals Confidential Filed under: plastics, chemicals, movies, price reporting, Wall Street Journal, crude

• Movie Trailer: Chemical Wedding

  Not surprisingly, this new film release hasn't got much to say about chemicals, since it is an occult thriller inspired by the life of the mystic, Aleister Crowley. Written by Bruce Dickinson, front man of the legendary Iron Maiden, and Julian Doyle... Posted Jun 02 2008, 09:04 AM by ICIS Chemicals Confidential Filed under: movies, Chemical Wedding

• Now ethanol will make going to the movies more expensive

  Now <a href="http://www.jossip.com/ethanol-fuel-demands-will-send-your-movie-ticket-prices-skyrocketing-20080519/#comment-33447">corn ethanol will make going to the movies more expensive</a>. There is a theory that ticket prices... Posted May 19 2008, 05:33 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, Corn, movies, pop, cinema

• More Top Chemical Movie Scenes

  The battle for the top chemical scenes in the movies rages on. After I thought we'd settled once and for all the " Top Ten Chemical Movie Scenes " back in the early days of the Blog, the movie buffs at ICB (John Baker and Andy Brice) have... Posted May 05 2008, 10:00 AM by ICIS Chemicals Confidential Filed under: movies, Sum of All Fears, Apocalypse Now

• Win a barrel load of goodies

  In a pullout section on "Petroleum" in the London Times today (but not sadly online), you can win one of ten sets of the books "Battle for Barrels" and "Empires of Oil", by Duncan Clarke. Also one of ten copies of "... Posted Apr 07 2008, 01:23 PM by ICIS Chemicals Confidential Filed under: Oil, movies, books, A Crude Awakening

• NPRA - the journey begins

  An empty flight is a joy to mankind. The vacant seats and the lack of visible activity make the ten-hour flight from London to Houston, Texas an entirely stress-free experience. Best of all, we nip through the dreaded arrivals hall and immigration in... Posted Mar 29 2008, 08:17 AM by ICIS Chemicals Confidential Filed under: business travel, movies, books, Houston, NPRA

• Blog Daughter on TV

  (photo from The Big Experiment) The Blog's daughter was on TV on the Discovery Channel's "The Big Experiment" last night. Episode 3 shows a bunch of disaffected kids being introduced to science experiments, and is being shown again on... Posted Mar 21 2008, 07:20 PM by ICIS Chemicals Confidential Filed under: movies, The Big Experiment, Discovery Channel, mothers, TV, kids

• Petrochemicals go to the Oscars

  It was a stellar night for petrochemicals at the Oscars. Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for “There Will Be Blood”, a film about a ruthless oil prospector and first reviewed here on the Blog in November. “No Country for Old Men”, set in the wide open... Posted Feb 25 2008, 07:05 PM by ICIS Chemicals Confidential Filed under: There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, movies, Oscars, Tilda Swinton