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p>Qatar's Tasweeq has sold at least 132,000 mt of spot refrigerated LPG in three cargoes of 44,000 mt each, for loading in September, market sources said this week. A Middle Eastern LPG producer said that all three cargoes comprise 33,000 mt of propane and 11,000 mt of butane ...
p>St. Louis-based Patriot Coal said it will have to spend at least $50 million to comply with a US district court's ruling that will require the Central Appalachian producer to reduce selenium discharges into water from two of its West Virginia mines. Environmental groups, which ...
p>Several Australian producers of low-volatile PCI coal, including Jellinbah and Curragh, have settled low-volatile PCI coal contracts with Japanese steelmakers for October to December 2010 at $147/mt FOB, a source close to the negotiations told Platts Thursday, confirming ...
ADCO Global announced that its K mmerling subsidiary has opened its new production plant in Nanjing, China. The custom built plant will manufacture sealants and adhesives for the Insulating Glass (IG), solar photovoltaic, structural glazing and transportation markets in China and ...
p>The Australian Energy Market Operator Wednesday launched a new wholesale gas trading market, to be known as the Short Term Trading Market, in the cities of Sydney and Adelaide. The STTM is vital to the southeastern Australian energy sector, improving efficiency and competition ...
p>NPU announced that its new 200kt/y MDI facility located at Nanyang which undertook maintenance on August 23th would restart in mid-October. The company s old 200kt/y MDI facility in Nanyang shut down for 40-day maintenance in May. Meanwhile, BASF planned to shut down its MDI ...
Downtown Harare has assumed a new image characterized by clean, spruced up buildings that now house mostly small to medium Chinese retail firms. Most commercial buildings s in downtown Harare had become an eyesore in recent years as landlords struggled to maintain them due to the ...
p>UK gas prices opened Tuesday morning largely unchanged from the previous day's close as the network remained well supplied with gas. At around 08:35 London time UK within-day and day-ahead were last traded at 40 pence/therm, more or less equal to Monday's 39.9 p/th day-ahead ...
p>Chinese offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Limited Tuesday said its parent China National Offshore Oil Corporation had signed amendment agreements to production sharing contracts with Chevron, BP and Devon Energy for three deepwater blocks in the South China Sea. The ...
p>Sinopec Fuel Oil Marketing Co intends to establish a regional marketing company in Wuhan in Central China's Hubei Province in the second half of September, according to informed sources. This company will probably be set up around Sep 25, learned from sources with Sinopec's ...
p>India's ethanol blending program is set to resume this October after having stalled for the last couple of years due to lack of supplies and an unattractive government-set price for the alternative fuel, industry sources said Tuesday. A tender issued last month by state-owned ...
p>The suflur content of Urals crude cargoes being exported from the northern Russian port of Primorsk on the Baltic Sea could rise temporarily to around 1.5% from January, from 1.3% now, due to the redirection of some crude flows in the country for export eastwards, a source at ...
p>Three state-owned oil giants Sinopec, PetroChina and CNOOC plan to supply B5 biogasoil to replace petroleum-based gasoil in South China's Hainan Province before Oct 1, making it pioneer of all provincial areas, a survey found. In Hainan, only CNOOC has biogasoil plant at ...
p>The aromatics workshop of PetroChina Fushun Petrochemical exploded after catching a fire Tuesday noon, as a result of which crude throughput for September might be slightly impacted, according to a refinery source. The fire has been put off by 12:55 p.m., which caused no ...
p>PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical is scheduled to process 600,000mt of crude oil in September, flat with the previous month, a source with the refinery said. Jilin Petrochemical, located in Jilin Province in Northeast China, has a topping capacity of 7-mil mt per year currently. ...
p>Tongyi Industrial Group is expected to put a 200,000-mt/yr LPG deep processing unit into production in Fushun City of Northeast China's Liaoning Province in end December, according to a source with the company. The unit would use C4 olefin to produce propylene, the source said, ...
p>Liaoning North Jinhua Polyurethane Co., Ltd s Phase I 50kt/y TDI facility kept operating at high rates for 50 days after 16-month trial run. Phase I project had an investment of Rmb 1 billion while total investment of 100kt/y TDI project amounted to Rmb 1.5 billion. As yet, ...
p>HOUSTON, TX, Sep 02, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Lapolla Industries, Inc. ("Lapolla") /quotes/comstock/11k!lpad (LPAD 0.65, 0.00, 0.00%) , a leading manufacturer and supplier of insulation foam, coatings, and equipment, focused on commercial, industrial and residential ...
NYSE Euronext (NYX) and APX, a leading provider of operational infrastructure and services for environmental and energy markets will set up NYSE Blue, a JV that will focus exclusively on environmental and sustainable energy markets. APX will contribute its business in return for ...
The drop-off in natural gas prices is touching other areas, mostly notably coal exchange traded funds (ETFs). Natural gas and gas prices are down, causing coal and iron ore prices to slump alongside them. It s simple economics: once natural gas because cheap enough to use heavily...
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
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China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
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Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
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IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
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China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
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Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
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Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
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Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...