Former Greenpeace director to advise Ineos on climate change
A former executive director of Greenpeace is to advise petrochemical giant Ineos on climate change.
A former executive director of Greenpeace is to advise petrochemical giant Ineos on climate change.
An analyst at Douglas Westwood has predicted that fracking will not turn into a thriving industry in the UK.
Ineos boss Jim Ratcliffe is said to be trying to axe tea breaks for 1200 workers at Grangemouth.
After six years of planning what was dubbed an “impossibel” task, Ineos has completed its first shipment of ethane to Grangemouth. Energy Voice was there to capture the event as one of its Dragon class vessels, the Ineos Insight,made its way under the Forth Road bridge. Watch the footage below.
The shipment of US shale to Grangemouth was made using the world's largest ethane gas carriers ever built.
Ineos boss Jim Ratcliffe has claimed the Scottish Government denied his company the chance to carry out exploration for shale in Scotland.
An open mind is needed on a shale gas industry in the UK, according to an energy partner with EY.
Environmental campaigners have stepped up calls for a ban on fracking ahead of the first shipment of US shale gas arriving in the UK.
An Aberdeenshire MSP has cast fresh doubt on the Scottish Government’s opposition to fracking in the run-up he arrival of the first shipment of shale gas at Grangemouth this week.
It would have been hard to imagine at the height of the drama around the Ineos petrochemical plant in late 2013 that US shale gas imports would be arriving by boat three years later.
There’s a moratorium on fracking here in Scotland because of the huge public opposition to it.
A US fracking company which has a contract to supply Ineo’s petrochemical plant at Grangemouth with ethane has reportedly been fined in the past for polluting the environment.
A green group has reiterated calls for the Scottish Government to ban fracking outright as Ineos’s first shipment of ethane from the US nears the firm's plant at Grangemouth.
Petrochemical giant Ineos has lodged plans with a Scottish council to permanently close a section of road in Grangemouth.
The first shipments of shale gas imports from the US are expected to arrive in Scotland within weeks, according to reports.
Petrochemicals giant Ineos is said to be planning to lodge as many as 30 applications to drill test wells in the next six months, according to reports.
Ineos said yesterday it was investing millions of pounds to expand production at a factory that will use ethylene produced from US shale gas into Scotland as its main raw material.
Senior executives at Ineos have claimed Scotland's economic fortunes could be transformed by fracking with new estimates suggesting it could be capable of producing more has than has been found in the North Sea.
Ineos has accused Falkirk Council of defying ‘common sense’ after the local government reopened a main road, which runs through the middle of the firm’s Grangemouth petrochemical site.
The operator of the Grangemouth petrochemical plant confirmed a second manufacturing unit will be reopened as the site prepares to receive shale gas ethane from the US.
Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a one-year £125 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by BP to build a new refrigeration plant at Grangemouth for the Forties pipeline system.
A £100 million deal between an engineering and services firm and BP at two of its Scottish oil and gas terminals will secure 240 jobs.
A decision by Drax to pull out of a £1billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition means a rival project at Grangemouth should get a shot at the funding, an industry specialist has claimed.
The operators of the Grangemouth oil refinery have been fined £24,000 for safety failings related to an incident in which a worker was injured at the plant. The decision came after a Petroineos employee was sprayed in the face by low pressure steam. The worker had been in regulation personal protective equipment including a hard hat and safety glasses at the time of the incident.
Grangemouth plant operator Ineos yesterday moved a step closer to completing the construction of Europe’s largest ethane storage tank. In a staggering feat of engineering, low pressure fans were used to lift the tank’s 300ton roof into place on “nothing more than a cushion of air”. Ineos said the 150ft high tank is being built as part of a £450million rescue plan for Grangemouth, which closed briefly in 2013.