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• World markets: Europe

  - 2005-07-02

  The Federal Reserve's signs that growth is being sustained in the US boosted stocks, with exporters such as BASF and GlaxoSmithKline climbing as the dollar strengthened. Energy producers such as BP rose after crude oil rallied, while Emap led media companies higher. Paris's Cac-40 added 0.8 per cent, and Frankfurt's...

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• Investment projects make steady progress.(multinational vhemical companies continue investments in China)

  - 2003-08-27

  Multinational chemical companies continue to pour investment into China. A number of previously announced projects have made substantial progress during 2003 and several new projects have been announced table. Shell Chemicals and China National Offshore Oil Corp. CNOOC broke ground earlier this year on their so-called...

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• Economic indicators.

  - 2003-08-01

  PLANT WATCH Company Plant location Pars Assaluyeh, Iran Petrochemical Co. DuPont Dow ...

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• Petrochemicals: gas surge, war, economy keep industry on edge. (Cover Story).

  - 2003-03-26

  U.S. petrochemical makers are under siege. Profits, already hurt by overcapacity and faltering demand, are being further hit by a sharp increase in feedstock costs since late 2002, the result of the uncertainty about a war with Iraq and political turmoil in Venezuela. Prices for natural...

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• BP divests pipeline stakes. (News: Europe).(British Petroleum Company PLC)(Brief Article)

  - 2002-10-07

  BP PLC has sold two of its three stakes in Europe's largest ethylene pipeline to BASF AG and Sasol Germany GmbH in line with conditions set by the European Commission for the approval of BP's recent takeover of Veba Oel. After...

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• Engineering & Construction.(global activity)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2001-05-23

  Still a Buyers' Market SOME ENGINEERING AND construction (E&C) companies say they have begun to recover from the difficult period of the past six years in which too many competitors were chasing too few contracts. The recent spate of M&A activity among E&C companies...

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• Companies Join to Focus on Methanol FCVs.(DaimlerChrysler, Methanex Corp., British Petroleum, XCELLSIS, Statoil, BASF; fuel cell vehicles)(Brief Article)

  - 2000-09-14

  Methanol-powered fuel cell vehicles FCVs may be the next automotive wave of the future due to the efforts of a recently formed collaboration of DaimlerChrysler, British Petroleum BP, Methanex Corporation, Statoil, XCELLSIS and BASF. The ultimate Methanol-powered fuel cell vehicles FCVs may be the next...

  Tags: methanol, fuel cell, BASF AG, Daimler AG, BP Plc

• Shell to proceed with China plan after nine years: BASF project looks to be next, while Dow, Exxon and BP wait in the wings.

  - 1998-02-16

  The year of the tiger is bringing luck to Royal Dutch/Shell Group, which has finally been given the green light by China's State Council to build a multibillion dollar petrochemical complex in China. Royal Dutch/Shell, which originally submitte The year...

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• BASF targets acquisitions that cut cycles; the company also wants to structure European business like that of US.

  - 1996-11-18

  Deal calls into question status of Borealis plans there. BP CHEMICALS HAS been selected by the Sultanate of Oman as a prospective partner in a worldscale petrochemicals project at Sohar, in the northern part of the Gulf state, that would start ...

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• Teesside set back in bid to become chemical center: new projects by BASF and Union Carbide in danger of relocating. (United Kingdom)(Report from Europe)

  - 1996-11-04

  New projects by BASF and Union Carbide are now in danger of relocating Hopes of Teesside in northeast England to become one of Europe's largest chemicals production centers have suffered a severe setback as a result of a UK government decision on a New...

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