Keterangan gambar, Pertamina mengatakan selama ini belum menggunakan MTBE untuk menaikan oktan pada bensin. 26 Agustus 2011 Organisasi pemerhati lingkungan, Komite Penghapusan Bensin Bertimbal ...

BP said it would phase out cleaner-burning fuel additive MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether, in California gasoline by Dec. 31, and has begun to sign contracts with several suppliers of the ...

New research released Wednesday finds drinking water contamination from the gasoline additive MTBE may be far more widespread than previously thought–perhaps polluting one-third of the nation's ...

A statewide ban on the gasoline additive MTBE takes full effect on Thursday, ridding California of one set of pollution issues while introducing another. State officials are grudgingly accepting ...

Valero Energy Corp., the third-largest U.S. refiner, said it will stop producing the gasoline additive known as MTBE because energy legislation passed by Congress leaves the company open to legal ...

WESTVILLE, Ind. – A Purdue University chemist has developed an experimental method that could be used to remove the gasoline additive MTBE from polluted ground water. Reynaldo Barreto, an associate ...

New York, May 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a recent report by Reports Insights, the methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) market is poised for strong expansion and is expected to reach ...

NEW YORK -- In an attempt to settle litigation over decades of groundwater contamination from the gasoline additive MTBE, nearly twelve oil companies have agreed to pay $423 million to assist ...

The recent political debates on the use of two common gasoline additives, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and ethanol, suggest that refiners may have to rely more on alternative chemicals for ...

Methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE, has been added to gasoline since the 1990s to reduce emissions, but it can leak from underground storage tanks, with undetermined consequences for human health.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The state has filed suit in federal court against nearly three dozen oil companies for contaminating groundwater with the gasoline additive MTBE that was used to boost engine ...