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Europe's gas pipelines

For anyone interested in natural gas, this is a great map of European gas movements , including production, consumption and transit figures for each country, in the FT today. Read More...

Published 9 Jan 2009 10:19 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, natural gas, Maps, FT

Gazprom's Russian charm offensive

Ed Cox enjoys some Russian hospitality at a Gazprom press conference ... Last week I was exposed to the mighty force of the Russian - or should I say Gazprom - marketing machine in my quest to keep on top of the latest episode in the dispute with Ukraine...

Published 5 Jan 2009 14:00 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: London, Gazprom, gas, natural gas, price reporting, Russia, media life, Ukraine, Russian press agency

Gazprom discovered in sleepy hollow

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Published 2 Jan 2009 11:56 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia, Gazprom, natural gas, corporate life, Ukraine, Hampton Wick

The big challenges

As delegates gather for this year's European Petrochemical Association meeting in the unreal world of Monaco (unrealf or 99.9 per cent recurring of us), I thought it was worth summarising some of the issues discussed on this blog over the last few...

Published 27 Sep 2008 8:55 by Asian Chemical Connections

Filed under: US, Economics, China, biomass, Environment, technology, Europe, BASF, Polyolefins, Business, Oil & Gas, Naphtha & other feedstocks, EPCA, sustainability, natural gas, Managing people, Company Strategy, Peak Oil, David Strahan, oil price, National University of Singapore

ExxonMobil Ad axed

After Shell , ExxonMobil is the next Big Oil advertiser to get bitten by the UK media watchdog, Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The agency received four complaints challenging ExxonMobil's television ad that claims natural gas is one of the...

Published 3 Sep 2008 16:33 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: UK, General, Government, natural gas, ExxonMobil, advertising

US natural gas prices rise 65%

The US price for natural gas has risen faster than crude so far this year. It is already up almost 65%. Rising coal and oil prices have encouraged power generators to switch to gas, whilst lower Canadian exports and a tight global LNG market have helped...

Published 8 Jun 2008 21:49 by Chemicals & The Economy

Filed under: USA, Canada, Economic growth, Oil markets, Futures trading, natural gas, LNG, coal prices

Hurray! for Cow Power

Don't wrinkle your nose on this news but according to Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), two million happy dairy cows in California could make other states' energy sector green with envy. PG&E and BioEnergy Solutions recently started...

Published 19 Mar 2008 2:42 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Investments, natural gas, manure, renewable, cow

Inflation worries increase in China, USA

China announced yesterday that inflation had soared again last month, reaching 8.7%, versus the government target of 4.8%. Part of the increase is clearly due to the effects of recent major storms . But with the US Fed likely to cut rates soon, China...

Published 11 Mar 2008 7:44 by Chemicals & The Economy

Filed under: China, Economic growth, Oil markets, Currencies, inflation, US Federal Reserve, crude oil prices, natural gas, Bloomberg

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