ICIS Blogs : natural gas

Europe's gas pipelines

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:19:28 GMT

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......(read more)

Gazprom's Russian charm offensive

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:00:22 GMT

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...(read more)

Gazprom discovered in sleepy hollow

ICIS Chemicals Confidential — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:56:51 GMT

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The big challenges

Asian Chemical Connections — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:55:35 GMT

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...(read more)

ExxonMobil Ad axed

Green Chemicals — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:33:43 GMT

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...(read more)

US natural gas prices rise 65%

Chemicals & The Economy — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:49:06 GMT

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...(read more)

Hurray! for Cow Power

Green Chemicals — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:42:44 GMT

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...(read more)

Inflation worries increase in China, USA

Chemicals & The Economy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:44:51 GMT

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...(read more)