Butyl Group
The butyl group corresponds to the group C4H9. The name comes from butyric acid, an acid that has the smell of rancid butter. This fact gives rise to its name, i.e., butyl comes from the L...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH START OF SALES)
Nippon Oil Corp. and nine other major Japanese oil distributors
started selling bio-gasoline at service stations around the Kanto
region on Friday in an e...
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(EDS: TO BE LED AROUND 9 A.M.)
Nippon Oil Corp. and nine other major Japanese oil distributors
will start selling bio-gasoline at service stations around the Kanto
region on Friday in an eff...
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Marubeni Corp. said Thursday it has signed a contract with
Brazil's Compania Petroquimica do Sul to import ethyl tertiary butyl
ether, a compound of ethanol and isobutylene, from Brazil.
T...
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(EDS: SHIPMENT EXPECTED AROUND 8:30 A.M.)
Japan's first shipment of bio-gasoline, or gasoline blended with
plant-derived fuel, will leave a Nippon Oil Corp. refinery in
Yokohama on Thursday ...
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(EDS: CLARIFYING HEADLINE, 1ST-3RD GRAFS. ADDING COMMENT IN 4TH GRAF)
Major Japanese oil distributors launched a program for promoting
bio-gasoline Thursday as the first shipment of the gasol...
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(EDS: UPDATING)
Japan's first shipment of bio-gasoline, or gasoline blended with
plant-derived fuel, left a Nippon Oil Corp. refinery in Yokohama on
Thursday morning, as a group of 10 major ...
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It will cost at least $12 billion to clean up contamination from tens of thousands of gasoline storage tanks that are leaking underground, congressional auditors say.That is far more than the $72 m...
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Energy: Oil has hit a nominal high, and retail gasoline prices are creeping back up. If the trend continues, expect the usual whiners to demand an investigation. And expect the same results: no vio...
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Strained U.S. refineries huffed and puffed but couldn't keep boosting gasoline production last week.Output for the week ended June 11 came in level with the prior week and well below estimates. Tha...
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Nintendo 9-month earnings double on brisk game console sales
TOKYO - Game console maker Nintendo Co. said Thursday its
consolidated profit doubled from a year earlier in the nine...
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Butyl Group
LEAD: Gas stations around Kanto start selling bio-gasoline
