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Students still love IT

Indian information technology (IT) companies may no longer be queuing up at campuses for fresh graduates but engineering students continue to rank this sector above all others, according to the latest Nielsen Campus Track T-Schools study . Chemicals,...

Published 11 Jun 2009 0:08 by India Chemicals Blog

Filed under: Oil, chemicals, Companies, Fine Chemicals, engineers, Refining, salary, Petrochemicals, Speciality Chemicals, gas, economy, chemical engineers
Greenpeace protests against Neste's palm biofuel plans

Greenpeace is objecting to Neste's plans to become the world's largest consumer of plam oil as it ramps up biofuels production, according to a report on ICIS news. Disclosure (I work for ICIS. About ICIS ) Neste disputes the pressure group's...

Published 14 May 2009 16:20 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: biofuel, Agriculture, biofuels, Environment, Trade, Oil, Greenpeace, Companies, palm, Neste, protest
Rotterdam is full

Rotterdam 's chemical storage tanks were already full at the beginning of the year, a Vopak executive told me at the ICIS Baseoils conference in February, and now Europe's largest port is running out of space to store crude oil. Plunging demand...

Published 5 May 2009 9:40 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: Oil, trading, shipping, crude, ports, Rotterdam, oil products
Novozymes in China biofuel project.

Novozymes and China National Cereals, China Oil & Foodstuff Corp (COFCO) and Asian refiner China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec) in February to develop an industry chain to collect agricultural waste, process it into bioethanol and distribute...

Published 27 Apr 2009 12:34 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: China, Agriculture, biofuels, National, Oil, Companies, Sinopec, Reuters, Foodstuf, Cereals, Novozymes
Cleaning up oil from tar sands

There's a good article in this week's New Scientist on " Can Oil from Tar Sands be Cleaned Up? " The answer it seems is yes. "Canadian tar sands contain an estimated 170 billion barrels of recoverable oil, second only to Saudi Arabia's...

Published 16 Apr 2009 13:22 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: Canada, Oil, chemicals, Saudi Arabia, hi-tech, pollution, crude, New Scientist, tar sands
Blood and oil - it's all art

A Russian artist whose exhibits are made of oil and blood is opening in an exhibition in London later this month. Andrei Molodkin's first British solo show, "Liquid Modernity (Grid and Greed)" has pieces pumped full of oil, but it is the...

Published 15 Apr 2009 13:48 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: Oil, London, media life, art, sculpture, Andrei Molodkin
"first economical way to produce biodiesel from algae oil"-researcher

A study scheduled for presentation at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society will show "the first economical way to produce biodiesel from algae oil ," according to lead researcher Ben Wen, Ph.D., vice president of United...

Published 27 Mar 2009 9:25 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: biofuel, biofuels, technology, Science, Oil, algae, ACS, transesterification
Plastic recycler produces oil

Oregon-based plastic recycler Agri-Plas claims to be the first company in the US to convert unrecyclable agricultural plastics --- dirty agricultural film, greenhouse cover, mixed nursery and jug material, prepackaged food containers and lids, etc. -...

Published 16 Mar 2009 17:00 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Oil, Company initiatives, Investments, R&D, plastic, recycle
The Malaysian Minster of Plantation Industires on sustainability

The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries spoke exclusively to the World Refinning Association ahead of the Asian Biofuels Roundtable to be held in Malaysia at 23-25 March. It is interesting that there is no discussion of prior informed consent...

Published 27 Feb 2009 9:23 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: Policy, Agriculture, Association, biofuels, politics, Biodiesel, World, Oil, Refining, Malaysia, Conference, palm, minsiter, Peter Chin, WRA
Wal-Mart is using biofuel and reclaimed cooking oil in truck fleet

Wal-Mart is using biofuel and reclaimed cooking oil in truck fleet, that's according to Tree Hugger. Now if a firm the size of Wal-Mart starts getting really serious about used cooking oil then the price is going to hit the roof. Read More...

Published 5 Feb 2009 14:57 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: biofuel, biofuels, fuel, Oil, Wal-Mart, cooking
Top Chemical Adverts No. 6 - BP at Heathrow

I've just seen these BP billboard ads all over London's Heathrow airport. Click here to view the campaign. It seems that the campaign has also won Greenpeace's Emerald Paintbrush Award , and that Greenpeace has created its own spoof advert...

Published 27 Jan 2009 7:02 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: biofuels, Oil, London, BP, gossip, Greenpeace, gas, solar, Heathrow, wind, energy, media life
London to get ring of biofuel power stations

London is to get a ring of veg oil fueled electricity generation stations , according to a report on the BBC. What is not clear from the report, which says the company planning to build up to eight stations, is the economics. At what price does veg oil...

Published 21 Jan 2009 10:25 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: Economics, biofuel, biofuels, electricity, generation, Food, Oil, veg, Veg Oil, Blue-NG
A time to look back and a time to look forward

As 2008 draws to a close it is time to look back and assess how well I did in my predictions for 2008 , at the start of the year, and let you know about a couple of guest bloggers who have very kindly agreed to guest post for me while I'm on holiday...

Published 22 Dec 2008 14:48 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: ethanol, 2009, biofuels, Biodiesel, Oil, 2008, automotive, cellulosic, Bioethanol, predictions, Hostage to Fortune
Naphtha is back in fashion

A steep drop in petrochemicals demand had dragged down naphtha prices in the last two months. But low prices have stinulated demand, not only from crackers but also from fertiliser and power plants. With naphtha below $300/tonne, some Indian fertiliser...

Published 19 Dec 2008 14:03 by India Chemicals Blog

Filed under: Oil, Companies, Refining, Petrochemicals, Government Policy, fertiliser, economy, naphtha, LNG
Nasty and brutish - a broker's life

This excessively rude film clip gives the flavour of an oil broker's life, according to my colleague Linda. (Disclaimer: ICIS would like to make it clear that it does not condone the mean treatment of brokers, regardless of whether they are oil or...

Published 17 Dec 2008 16:03 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: video, Oil, trivia, movies, aromatics, brokers, corporate life, chemical brokers, aromatics brokers, oil brokers, joke

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