Lubrizol Life Science has agreed to sell its silicone breast implant manufacturing operation in Franklin, Wis., to Santa Barbara, Calif.-based medical aesthetics company Sientra Inc. Lubrizol Life Science is part of Wickliffe-based specialty chemical company Lubrizol Corp. Sientra will pay $20 million in cash for the breast implant business, a news release stated. The release
Read More...Mar-Bal Inc.’s new product line has moved it into new industry spaces and put a stronger focus on the company’s proprietary products. Chagrin Falls-based Mar-Bal, a compounder and thermoset material molder, acquired AlertTile and Detectable Warning Systems near the end of last year. That means Mar-Bal is now a maker of detectable warning surfaces. Such surfaces,
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Andrew Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion sinking of taxpayer monies into Elon Musk’s solar scam has been written down to 8 cents on the dollar; an $884 million loss. Imagine you build a new house in Upstate New York for $300,000. It’s got the latest in appliances and a modern
Read More...Geon Performance Solutions, the former Performance Products and Solutions business of PolyOne Corp. that was sold last month to private investment firm SK Capital Partners for $775 million in cash, soon will have a permanent CEO in place. The company announced in a news release that Tracy Garrison will become CEO in January. He will assume the role now held by Geon’s interim
Read More...Oil and gas firm Aker BP will accelerate the startup of production from Norway’s Aerfugl natural gas field, the company said Nov. 11. In a surprise move, the company now plans to start Aerfugl production in first-half 2020, three years ahead of what had originally been billed as the field’s second phase. Partners in the
Read More...Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) has extended the deadline for bids for oil and gas exploration until the end of December to give interested companies more time to discuss forming potential consortia, a spokesman said Nov. 11. The new deadline applies to the second bid round for onshore and offshore blocks that the state
Read More...The amount of stored working natural gas at Oct. 31, was 37 billion cubic feet higher than the previous five-year end-of-October average, according to Energy Information Administration data. Natural gas in storage in 2019 went from a relatively low volume of 1.16 trillion cubic feet at April 1, to 3.72 Tcf at Oct. 31, due
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Read More...Aaron Blomquist, head of infrastructure and managing director of investment banking of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. (TPH), is today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree. Blomquist entered the industry briefly working as a summer analyst at Credit Suisse before joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was ultimately director of its global energy and
Read More...Today it’s payback time, and the energy industry is doing its part to assist veterans returning to civilian life. How? By encouraging them to apply for well-paying jobs in an industry where their temperament, willingness to learn new skills and work as a team under occasionally difficult circumstances are needed and amply rewarded. In
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the world’s top oil producer, LNG exports, Cunningham Energy and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our
Read More...Saudi Aramco will sell up to 0.5% of its shares to individual investors in what could be the largest initial public offering in history, Kallanish Energy reports. The process begins Nov. 17, and closes on Dec. 4, the company said in its IPO prospectus, released last Saturday. The 658-page document comes almost four years after
Read More...The volume of working gas injected into underground storage slowed to the smallest amount in seven months in the latest weekly survey by the Energy Information Administration, Kallanish Energy calculates. For the week ended Nov. 1, just 34 billion cubic feet of working gas was placed into storage — the smallest amount since 25 Bcf
Read More...Antero Resources saw a 24% increase in production during the third quarter over the same period a year earlier, despite capital spending cutbacks, according to Kallanish Energy. Antero’s net daily natural gas-equivalent production averaged 3.37 billion cubic feet equivalent per day in the third quarter. Its production was composed of 32% liquids. The company’s drilling
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