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Russia's Tuapse oil refinery resumes operations after attack
Rosneft's Black Sea oil refinery in Tuapse resumed operations on Sunday after a drone attack.
Russia to lift gasoline export ban
The Russian government has made a final decision to suspend the temporary ban on gasoline exports as the market is sufficiently supplied. The Energy Ministry has confirmed the information.
Ukraine long-range attacks continue to disrupt Russian refining, energy operations
Ukraine attacked a power substation in Russian-occupied Crimea, an oil depot and railway station in Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and an oil refinery in the port town of Tuapse overnight.
BASF expands its biomass balance portfolio for selected chemical intermediates
BASF will expand its biomass balance offering to include BMBCertTM 1,4-butanediol (BDO), tetra-hydrofuran (THF), polytetra¬hydrofuran (PolyTHF®) and 3-(di¬methyl¬amino)pro¬pyl¬amine (DMAPA).
INEOS Inovyn launches next-generation recycling pilot plants to strengthen Europe’s PVC recycling
INEOS Inovyn launches two new PVC pilot plants at our Jemeppe-sur-Sambre site in Belgium, to accelerate technologies for recycling PVC which are not mechanically recyclable today.
How Europe reduced its greenhouse gas emissions in 2023
The European Union's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 5% last year, continuing a trend of declining emissions in Europe.
MOL inaugurated its €1.3-B, 200,000-tpy polyol complex in Tiszaújváros, Hungary
MOL inaugurated its €1.3-B, 200,000-tpy polyol complex in Tiszaújváros, Hungary.
Nextchem completes acquisition of GasConTec, adding new low-carbon hydrogen/methanol to portfolio
Nextchem completed the acquisition of GasConTec, which will add new low-carbon hydrogen/methanol technologies to the company's portfolio.
Verbio breaks ground to manufacture bio-based specialty chemicals
Verbio has begun construction of the world’s first large-scale ethenolysis plant using rapeseed oil methyl ester at its Bitterfeld, Germany location.
FertigHy selects Northern France for first low-carbon fertilizer plant
FertigHy, a pan-European producer of low-carbon, nitrogen-based fertilizer for the agricultural sector, will build its first factory in the Hauts-de-France region in Northern France.
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