Investments

• Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 16:28 UTC

  Norwegian company converts fresh seaweed to dry powder for alginates in 24 hours

  

  Norwegian company FMC Biopolymer converts seaweed to alginate for use in thousands of products with an advanced 24 hour chemical process. ABB has supplied process automation, motors and drives to FMC Biopolymer for more than 20 years.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 05:35 UTC

  Falklands' Sea Lion project outstands in Premier Oil exploration opportunities

  

  Premier Oil, the British North Sea's oldest company outside the oil majors, is turning away from the region for future exploration opportunities such as the Catcher and the Sea Lion project in the Falkland Islands, according to a report published by Reuters.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 05:26 UTC

  Canadian town evicts oil sands companies that helped it grow

  

  The Canadian town of Fort McMurray, population 76,000, is the heart of Alberta's oil sands largesse--but the town is bursting at its seams with nowhere to expand because the land surrounding it is owned by oil companies.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2013 - 03:50 UTC

  “The party is over” for Latam countries China-dependent on their exports

  

  “The party is over” and Latinamerican countries should be concerned since the Chinese economy is slowing down, apparently entering a low growth period and many in the region have become notoriously ‘China-dependent’ after a decade of strong expanding sustained bilateral relations.

• Saturday, July 27th 2013 - 10:18 UTC

  Six key Oil & Gas discoveries of 2013: who's worth owning?

  

  By OilPrice.com Premium Analysts - The pace of oil and gas exploration is frightening, and discoveries are weekly, if not daily, with volumes investors would only have dreamt of a decade ago. With each new discovery, it becomes difficult to keep track of the playing field, and even more difficult to rank the potential.

• Saturday, July 27th 2013 - 05:11 UTC

  Repsol takes YPF/Chevron deal to World Bank’s Investment Disputes Centre

  

  Spanish oil company Repsol asked the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) to take provisional measures to prevent YPF state-owned oil company to execute the deal it sealed with Chevron last year to explore for unconventional hydrocarbons in the Vaca Muerta shale formation.

• Saturday, July 27th 2013 - 05:00 UTC

  Falklands set rules for oil and gas development, to the benefit of Islanders current and future generations

  

  Falkland Islands has set out the eight basic guidelines of its hydrocarbons development policy which are centred on robust regulation, supply chain support and long-term benefits for Islanders because the statement underlines its resources belong to the people of the Islands.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2013 - 14:54 UTC

  Mineral rich Australia may contain world's next major oil find

  

  By John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com - Australia's massive mineral exports allowed it to weather the global recession, which began in 2008, quite nicely.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2013 - 07:33 UTC

  China interested in developing agriculture in Venezuela’s 30 million hectares of land

  

  Venezuelan Vice-president Jorge Arreaza said that cooperation between China and Venezuela, which has been especially strong and beneficial in energy and technology, could be extended to include agriculture and land exploitation, an area of special interest for Beijing.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2013 - 07:16 UTC

  Green Coke with natural sweetener stevia launched in Argentina

  

  Coca Cola has used their familiar and distinctive curved script since 1887 and since the 1920s their famous logo has been placed on a red background on the company's classic cola. But the soda brand is now going green, at least in Argentina.