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Court approves $31.9 million LNG bid from Marathon Oil

Added: 3 Sep 2002

The US Bankruptcy Court has approved Marathon Oil Company's $31.9 million bid to acquire Enron's li…

Arsenic and old lakes

Added: 3 Sep 2002

MIT researchers have shown that a common pollutant strongly impacts the behaviour of arsenic and po…

Selling fat to Malaysia

Added: 2 Sep 2002

Unilever is to sell its speciality oils and fats business, Loders Croklaan Group to IOI Cor…

UK Government energy policy unrealistic

Added: 2 Sep 2002

The Royal Academy of Engineering has told Energy Minister Brian Wilson that the UK Government's ene…

UCB sells its Methylamines

Added: 2 Sep 2002

UCB is to sell its Methylamines and Derivatives business to a partnership company formed between Mo…

BASF sells luranyl polymer business to Romira

Added: 30 Aug 2002

BASF has sold its luranyl business in Europe and Asia to Romira GmbH, a maker of engineerin…

Solvay Fluoropolymers to be sold to Dyneon

Added: 29 Aug 2002

Solvay America and Dyneon have entered into a binding letter of intent for the sale of the North Am…

Peabody Energy returns to Australia

Added: 23 Aug 2002

Peabody Energy, world's largest private-sector coal company has acquired the Australian coal mining…

Neural network to cut pollutants?

Added: 22 Aug 2002

The US Department of Energy has signed an agreement with Tampa Electric Power Company to demonstrat…

New process creates lighter, tougher ceramic parts

Added: 21 Aug 2002

Researchers at Ohio State University have found a new way to make dense ceramics in complex shapes,…

UK companies fined for Aeron pollution

Added: 21 Aug 2002

Three companies who trade at premises in Felinfach, Lampeter, Cardiganshire have been fined a total…

Yukos to acquire Williams' stake in Mazeikiu Nafta

Added: 20 Aug 2002

Williams is to sell its 26.85 percent equity interest in Mazeikiu Nafta, the Lithuania oil refining…

Catalytic onions

Added: 16 Aug 2002

In a collaborative effort between the Fritz-Haber Institute and the Boreskov Institute, the usefuln…

Bush's plans keep the US in oil

Added: 12 Aug 2002

Koch Supply & Trading has recently been selected to supply crude oil to the US Strategic Petroleum …

$180 million of gas storage

Added: 12 Aug 2002

PacifiCorp Power Marketing has agreed to acquire Aquila Corp.'s Katy gas storage facility in Texas …

Recycling solvent vapour

Added: 7 Aug 2002

A research team at the University of Bath has developed a way to recover and recycle solvent vapour…

No trouble at the mill for reactions without solvents

Added: 1 Aug 2002

A process which has hitherto been used to prepare metal alloys could remove the need for many react…

Valve and actuator market benefits from end-user updates

Added: 1 Aug 2002

The industrial valves and actuators market in Europe is set to pick up as the global econom…

The Big Freeze

Added: 1 Aug 2002

Ice-cream manufacturing is among the most complex processes in the food manufacturing sector. Stuar…

The best things do come in small packages

Added: 1 Aug 2002

The food industry is borrowing techniques developed by pharmaceutical manufacturers to protect and …