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Aromatics Conference 2009 - I'm virtually there

There's only one thing worse than going to an ICIS Aromatics Conference . And that's NOT going to an ICIS Aromatics Conference. I'm already bored with not going to things. So from next week, I'm going to be out and about at anything I can lay my hands on, starting with the ICIS Training...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-26-2008
Black Swans and Benzene

ICIS aromatics editor Peter Salisbury writes about expecting the unexpected ... Earlier this year I gave a presentation at the ICIS Phenol and Acetone Conference in Budapest. Reception to the paper was frankly mixed, as it tried to link a relatively obscure philosopher/quantative analyst with benzene...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-16-2008
Darkness and neglect at Le Balmoral

On the way to dinner at Le Saint-Benoit, we pass the dark and shuttered hulk of the former Balmoral Hotel, looming darkly over the bay. This was a haven to past generations from Shell, Integra and then ICIS, famed for its 1950s wallpaper and candlewick bedspreads and fondly referred to as the "Immoral"...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008
Sleepless in Seattle

Seattle, Washington, USA was the venue for the big fertilizer conference of The Fertilizer Institute ( TFI ) last week, and three of the ICIS fertilizer team made the long trip there from Houston and London. A trip memorable for its coffee and the unusual contents of its hotel minibars, I understand...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
Fabulous food at ICIS Brussels training seminar

The best thing about this week's ICIS training seminars in Brussels in the EPCA offices, better even than all the train travel, is undoubtedly the food. It is fantastic. Catered by a local restaurant in the Montgomery suburb of Brussels, it is a sumptuous buffet. There's lumpfish roe mock-caviar...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008
Football and chemical freebies

I'm sitting in a football stadium on a mild and sunny Saturday afternoon in this cool damp English summer, watching our team in what is only its third game this season as all the expensive new players fail to score a single goal. Watching football in warm weather is a pleasantly new experience for...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008
EPCA to abandon Monaco?

The European Petrochemical Association ( EPCA) June newsletter dropped into the Blog inbox today, with early news of the annual meeting in Monaco at the end of September. Already the jaded old hands in the European industry are complaining that they don't want to go back to Monaco again. "It's...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2008
Asian Baseoils in Kuala Lumpur

Shelley Kerr, our European baseoils senior editor sends her thoughts from the conference in Kuala Lumpur ... Base oil industry participants met in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last week (she writes) to discuss the issues currently facing the market at the 2 nd ICIS Asian Base Oils and Lubricants conference...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-25-2008
Fado and dancing lift the mood at Lisbon EPL

The highlight of the Lisbon European Petrochemical Luncheon ( EPL ) was the spectacular party thrown by Peninsula and Lakeview at a ruined monastery on Friday evening. With lots of wives and partners over for the weekend, there were more than 100 guests dining under the stars, quaffing wines from the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-24-2008
Singapore celebrations at APIC

Our Singapore party-goers, Mahua and John, report back from this week's APIC conference that the most popular parties were undoubtedly the Braemar Quincannon 10th Anniversary celebration and the ICIS Spanish-themed tapas and sangria party in the glistening courtyard of the former cloistered convent...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-02-2008

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