March 27, 2019 Updated 3/27/2019 Email Print Plastics News Report Minnetonka, Minn. — Evolve Additive Solutions Inc. is expanding its materials technology center in Brighton, N.Y., in a project that will create up to 60 jobs. The Minnetonka-based company is developing proprietary additive manufacturing technology, and it is backed by big-name brands including Lego A/S
Read More...Saudi Aramco has agreed to pay $69.1 billion for a majority stake in petrochemicals group Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) in a deal critical to financing Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s grandiose development plans. The transaction—in which the sovereign Public Investment Fund (PIF) is selling its 70% stake in SABIC—provides a much-needed cash boost to Prince
Read More...In recent years, attorneys general in the District of Columbia, New York, Maryland and a handful of other states have sought to burnish their climate credentials by pursuing investigations and litigation against oil companies. In some cases, they have welcomed outside support through a controversial, Michael Bloomberg-funded law program, which was set up to help
Read More...RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazil’s new environmental minister is working to establish a more agile process for environmental licensing in the country in order to boost oil and other extraction activities. “We need speed, agility, stability and legal certainty,” Brazil’s Minister of the Environment Ricardo Salles said during a March seminar in São Paulo. “That does not mean
Read More...Bryce Custer, a commercial real estate agent and site selection consultant, will be the guest speaker at the Wellsburg, West Virginia Chamber of Commerce Dinner on April 6. Bryce established the Ohio River Corridor, LLC in 2016. Wellsburg Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner Time: 5:00 PM-8:30 PM Date: Saturday, April 6, 2019 Place: Wellsburg Banquet
Read More...March 27, 2019 Updated 3/27/2019 Email Print Plastics News Report Milliken & Co. Packaging made using the Millad NX 8000 clarifier form Milliken & Co. Spartanburg, S.C. — Milliken & Co. plans to expand its plant in Blacksburg, S.C., that makes a plastics additive used to clarify polypropylene. The plant, which Spartanburg-based Milliken said will
Read More...March 27, 2019 Updated 3/27/2019 Email Print Michael A. Marcotte From left, Plastics News Vice President/Group Publisher Brennan Lafferty moderates a panel with Christopher Chung, Darin Buelow and Vince Barnett at the Plastics News Executive Forum in Naples, Fla. Naples, Fla. — Success in plastics can be about where you go, as well as who
Read More...Lundin Petroleum and partners Wintershall Norge AS and OMV Norge AS have submitted plans to develop the $810 million Solveig Field as a subsea tieback to the Lundin-operated Edvard Grieg platform in the North Sea offshore Norway. “With first oil scheduled for early 2021, Solveig will be the first subsea tieback development in the Greater
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Shell pipes being unloaded – click for larger version All 97 miles of imported steel pipeline that will be used to construct Shell’s Falcon ethane pipeline project was offloaded at a Philadelphia
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. A lawsuit that began life a year ago, in March 2018, has finally been settled between suburbanite landowners near Philadelphia and Sunoco Logistics Partners over construction activities related to the Mariner East
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Pennsylvania House Bill (HB) 827, which would make a permanent frack ban by the Delaware River Basin Commission (if adopted) a government “taking” or seizure of a citizens’ property liable for compensation,
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Another $3 million in taxpayer-funded grants have just been handed out to three different local pipeline projects under Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Investment Program, or PIPE. Two of the projects are in northeastern PA,
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Cove Point LNG terminal Last Thursday, March 21st at 9:22 pm, Dominion Energy’s Cove Point LNG export facility along the shoreline of Maryland experienced a brief “flaring event” due to an issue
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Utility giant National Grid has officially begun to caution (promise? warn? threaten?) “dozens of midsize companies” in New York City now applying to become new natural gas customers they may not be
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. In October 2016, Indeck Energy announced a plan to build a $1 billion electric generating plant (powered by natural gas) in Niles, Michigan, not far from Chicago (see $1B Electric Plant Planned
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