AUSTRALIA

No Burrup bounce back for Methanex

CONTINUING high capital and labour costs mean Methanex Corporation is not likely to resurrect a methanol plant project on Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula that it canned eight years ago.

No Burrup bounce back for Methanex

"Australia would be a great place to own some methanol capacity but its costs, capital and labour are quite high," Methanex president and chief executive Bruce Aitken told EnergyNewsPremium at the Methanex...

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