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  • Aromatics Day Two

    Everyone's homeward bound from Cologne after the two-day Aromatics Conference , and it sounds like it went well. It started with doom and gloom about the recession, and then delegates heard the breaking news overnight and this morning about the terrible attacks in Mumbai , so there was plenty to...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-27-2008

  • LyondellBasell debt downgraded, INEOS seeks waivers

    Current market conditions are causing problems for everyone in the chemical industry. But as the blog has long feared, they are particularly testing those companies with higher debt levels. On Friday, Moody's announced a downgrading of the Corporate Family Rating of Lyondell Basell Industries to...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008

  • Ineos to sell some US assets?

    The UK's Sunday Telegraph newspaper reports that 'Ineos, the chemicals group which is one of Britain's biggest private companies, is considering selling assets in an effort to reduce its debt burden'. It adds that 'the company, which has expanded rapidly through debt-fuelled acquisitions...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-13-2008

  • Ryder Cup players are model for petchems

    Watching the opening of the Ryder Cup , which kicks off today in Kentucky, sets me wondering about golf and chemicals. Why is golf the sport of the international petrochemical industry? Even as EPCA has axed the Sunday sailing competition this year, and the tennis numbers dwindle away, but the golf event...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008

  • Inside Ineos' waste to ethanol plant

    And finally, is usually a piece about a skate-boarding duck used to round off a news show of unremitting depression. This is at least optimistic, its about Ineos' plans to use waste to develop gas that will be fed to algae and which will make ethanol ....
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-15-2008

  • Ineos goes down the Fischer-Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste

    Ineos goes down the Fischer-Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste, according to a press release from the company, reported on ICIS news and in newspapers like the Times today . I like this technology, as you'll know by now and I think that it is important that it is being widely talked about...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-21-2008

  • 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 more. A US court has ruled that Google must divulge...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-04-2008

  • Re: Fire at INEOS Cologne

    HI, Its a bit soon for an invesgtigation to report, the German government only called for a meeting on chemical accidents in mid April .( You'll need a subscription to view that story .) I think that Ineos and the authorities will want to get to the bottom of it. Not least beacuse that kind of outage...
    Posted to Health, safety and site security (Forum) by Carothers on 05-07-2008

  • INEOS’ Grangemouth plants on strike

    Ineos’ 200,000bpd Grangemouth refinery in Scotland is on strike today and tomorrow , over a pension dispute. This will presumably cost the workers 2 days pay. The costs for INEOS and the UK are enormous in comparison. BP, for example, has had to shut down a pipeline that carries 40% of the UK’s oil production...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-27-2008

  • Fire at INEOS Cologne

    Good to see ICIS news making use of video in its coverage of the fire at INEOS' Cologne site.
    Posted to Health, safety and site security (Forum) by Lockyer on 03-19-2008
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