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CAMPINAS, Brazil (ICIS)--The strikes at Petrobras's Comperj construction site during the first three months of 2012 helped cause its investment...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--Here is Friday’s end of day Americas oil and chemical market summary from ICIS. CRUDE: Jun WTI: $92.56/bbl, down 25 cents; Jul...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--US rail regulators should make prevention of rail accidents through technology their priority rather than just mitigating the release...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) imports from Colombia are entering Venezuela normally after a conflict at the border, sources in Colombia...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--An unnamed methanol producer is considering a town in the Great Lakes region of Canada as a plant site, a town official said on...

By William Lemos HOUSTON (ICIS)--US butadiene (BD) contract prices are poised for another decline in June, market sources predicted this week, citing...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--KBR Building Group will provide general contracting services for a new injection-moulding plant to be built by CTL Packaging in...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--US ethylene for May traded at 51.75 cents/lb ($1,141/tonne, €901/tonne) on Thursday, down by 18% since the start of the month, a...

CHICAGO (ICIS)--Airlines are expected to increase their demand for jet fuel in 2012, despite threats from the global economy, an economist said on...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--Polyethylene (PE) supply in Mexico returned to normal in May with the end of a maintenance procedure at Pemex's low density PE (LDPE)...

HOUSTON (ICIS)-- US chlor-alkali production was 86% of capacity in April, the same as in March, a US trade group said on Thursday. US chlor-alakli...

CHICAGO (ICIS)--The US Seaway oil pipeline reversal will not have an immediate impact on crude oil prices, and hence distillates, until its capacity...

SAO PAULO (ICIS)--Brazil's fertilizer sales rose to nearly 1.6m tonnes in April, up by 13% year on year, the Fertilizer Distribution Association...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--Canadian potash could soon be on its way to Myanmar following the removal of economic sanctions by the Government of Canada against...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--US-based mid-stream company Enterprise Products and Enbridge have finished reversing the flow of the Seaway oil pipeline, allowing...

MEDELLIN, Colombia (ICIS)--Brazil’s Braskem has signed an agreement with Australia-based Plantic Technologies to use sugarcane-derived green...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--The governor of Vermont has signed the nation’s first bill banning hydraulic fracturing, saying the science behind the practice was...

Here is the lunchtime bulletin for the Americas on Thursday from . The Lunchtime Bulletin brings you all the latest chemicals and market news and...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--US styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) contract prices for May moved down from as a result of the drop in butadiene and styrene contract...

(updates with Canadian and Mexican chemical railcar traffic data) TORONTO (ICIS)--Chemical shipments on Canadian railroads rose by 5.0% year on year...