UAE to host camel festivalOctober 6th, 2009 ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates capital will a host a camel festival from Jan 30 to Feb 8, WAM news agency reported. The Mazayina Dhafra Camel Festival will be organised by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH).
GAIL completes funding for Assam petrochemical plantOctober 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - GAIL India has achieved financial closure for its petrochemical plant in Assam, company chairman B.C. Tripathi said Thursday.
Gulf foreign ministers conclude meeting in Saudi ArabiaSeptember 4th, 2009 JEDDAH - Foreign ministers of the Gulf region countries have concluded their two-day meeting here, WAM news agency reported Friday. The 112th session of the meeting of foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was presided over by Yousuf Bin Alawi Abdullah, foreign minister of Oman, which chairs the current session.
Canada, India bilateral trade to almost treble in five yearsSeptember 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Bilateral trade between India and Canada is expected to grow threefold in five years, according to Gerald Keddy, the parliamentary secretary to the North American country's international trade minister. "We are looking at a bilateral trade of $14 billion in the next five years," Keddy said at a press meet here Wednesday after inaugurating the Canada Trade Office.
Fluor completes multibillion-dollar joint venture project in KuwaitAugust 27th, 2009 Fluor completes joint venture project in KuwaitIRVING, Texas — Fluor Corp. completed a multibillion-dollar project for a joint venture with Dow Chemical Co.
Foreign firms agree to finance petrochemical projects in IranAugust 20th, 2009 NICOSIA - The Head of the National Petrochemical Company of Iran Adel Nejad-Selim has said that a number of firms from Russia, Turkey, India, Oman and South Africa have reached preliminary agreements with Iran for the financing of petrochemical projects in the country. He did not reveal the names of the foreign firms involved.
Explosion at a petrochemical plant in eastern France kills 2, injures 6July 15th, 2009 French petrochemical explosion kills 2PARIS — An explosion at a petrochemical plant owned by the French oil giant Total killed two people and injured six on Wednesday, the company said. The blast occurred in Carling-Saint-Avold, a town in eastern France near the German border, Total said in a statement.
Authorities: explosion at a petrochemical plant in eastern France kills at least 2, injures 5July 15th, 2009 French petrochemical explosion kills at least 2PARIS — An explosion at a petrochemical plant in eastern France on Wednesday killed two people and injured six, the French oil giant Total said. Several others were buried under the rubble, local authorities said.
Authorities say explosion at petrochemical plant in France kills at least 2, injures 5July 15th, 2009 French explosion kills at least 2PARIS — Local authorities say an explosion at a petrochemical plant in eastern France has killed at least two people and injured five. An official with the local governor in Moselle, 210 miles (340 kilometers) east of Paris, says the explosion occurred Wednesday at a plant in Carling/Saint-Avold.
Canada-based Agrium says CF Industries still resisting takeover effortsJune 29th, 2009 Agrium says CF Industries resisting stillCALGARY, Alberta — The chief executive of Agrium Inc. says rival fertilizer company CF Industries Holdings Inc.
West Bengal keeps fingers crossed on chemical hub projectMay 29th, 2009 KOLKATA - With the opposition Trinamool Congress, now part of the central government, having said it would oppose the Nayachar chemical hub project, West Bengal's ruling Left Front government Friday said it had not received any notice yet from the central government to scrap it. "The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had given us the green signal to set up the Nayachar project.
Kuwait scraps 15 billion dollars refinery projectMarch 30th, 2009 NICOSIA - The state-run Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) confirmed press reports that it had scrapped plans to built a fourth refinery at Al Zour, at an estimated cost of 15 billion dollars and has informed accordingly the companies involved. This is the second multi-billion project which has been abandoned by a Kuwati state-run company in the past three months.
Mott MacDonald opens new design centre in KochiMarch 14th, 2009 KOCHI - London-based engineering and consultancy major Mott MacDonald Friday opened its new design centre in Kochi, Kerala. Mott MacDonald director (oil and gas global operations) Sam Mathew said the company was committed to expanding its business in India and Kochi would become a hub for the firm's oil, gas and petrochemical storage and distribution business.
Court lifts ban on sale of Reliance gas till final judgementJanuary 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bombay High Court Friday lifted its interim ban on the sale of natural gas by Reliance Industries from the Krishna-Godavari basin till final orders March 15, and said the company can retail it at $4.20 per unit. The Mukesh Ambani-led group can sell the gas from the fields off the Andhra Pradesh coast based on the criteria set by an empowered group of ministers, headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, and accepted by the government, the court ruled.
Indian workers in Gulf air problems at diaspora meetJanuary 8th, 2009 CHENNAI - Complaints of ill treatment of migrant workers by Indian immigration officials and by officials of Indian embassies abroad, the lack of higher education facilities for children of Indian workers and lack of legal assistance for jailed workers abroad were some of the issues brought to the notice of Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi by the people from the Gulf region here Friday. Participating in the session to discuss the problems faced by the Indians in the Gulf region at the seventh Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) convention, a delegate said: 'I saw an immigration official throwing a passport on the face of two workers.
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