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p>According to National Bureau of Statistics of China, output of homemade soft furniture amounted to 25.23 million, up 43% compared with the same period last year. Ms Wang, the secretary general of China National Furniture Association said that this year China soft furniture ...
p>French oil major Total confirmed Wednesday its target of growing oil and gas production by a market-leading 2%/year to 2014 despite a temporary slowdown next year before its next wave of projects come onstream. According to figures in a mid-year strategy update, Total said it ...
p>Chevron and China National Petroleum Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue joint opportunities related to gas field development and LNG offtake in Australia, and broader cooperation on upstream opportunities in China, Chevron said Thursday. The ...
p>State-owned Indonesian oil and gas company Pertamina will raise its stake in the West Madura block in eastern Java to 60% from 50% next year, an official said Tuesday. The company will also take over South Korean Kodeco Energy's operatorship of the block once the contract ...
p>South China consumed 42-mil mt of crude during the first 8 months of this year, sharply up 31.06% from the same period one year ago, showed data from the National Bureau of Statistics. The growth rate was the highest of all regions in China. The other regions also saw increases ...
p>East China is estimated to import 200,000-220,000mt of fuel oil in September, notably down about 27.5% or 80,000mt from the estimate for August, a shipping schedule shows. No Venezuelan fuel oil cargo is expected to reach East China this month. As local stockpiles of such ...
p>Six major refineries in East China produced a combined 5,800mt per day of LPG in the first half of September, up 3.6% from two weeks earlier, a survey showed. Gaoqiao Petrochemical enhanced LPG supply by 20% to 1,200mt a day after shutting down its alkylation unit, which uses ...
p>Fuel oil inventories in major commercial tank farm of East China added up to 412,000mt Wednesday, nearly flat with the previous week, a survey showed. The volume accounted for 38.1% of the total fuel oil containing capacity. Aoshan Oil Tank Farm in Zhoushan City of Zhejiang ...
p>Refining margins for minor refineries in South China's Guangdong Province fell further in negative territory due to rises in feedstock costs, a survey found. The margin was minus Yuan 202/mt on average in theory Wednesday, versus minus Yuan 152/mt one week ago and minus Yuan ...
p>US oxo-alcohol producer Eastman Chemical has announced an October price increase for customers in the Americas, the company said this week. Eastman will hike its 2-EH, 2-EH acid, NBA and IBA prices by 3 cents/lb for buyers in North and Latin America. The increase was set to be ...
p>Sinopec Changling Petrochemical is expected to see its daily LPG output surge from the current 500mt to 800mt in end October, when it would bring on stream an 8-mil-mt/yr crude distillate unit, according to a source with the refinery. The refinery has been increasing LPG output ...
p>International Specialty Products Inc. ( ISP ) has announced a North American price increase for 1,4 Butanediol and derivatives, including: N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidone (NMP), 1-4 Butanediol (BDO), Tetrahydrofuran (THF), and Gamma- Butyrolactone (BLO). The price increase is as follows...
p>Butane is receiving support from gasoline blenders ahead of the switch to winter-specification product, trading sources said Wednesday. The price of butane coasters on a FOB basis in Northwest Europe surged from $632.50/mt at the beginning of September to $697.50/mt Tuesday, ...
p>Cliffs Natural Resources cut its projected 2010 sales volumes from its West Virginia and Alabama legacy coal assets to 2.8 million short tons from the previous 3.4 million st primarily because of "adverse geological condition[s]" at its Pinnacle Mine, "which has slowed ...
The European Union will finance two feasibility studies for upgrades to Ukraine's gas transit system, the president of the European Commission said. The Soviet-era gas transit system crossing Ukraine transports 80 percent of the Russian natural gas bound for Europe. Gas supplies ...
p>Indonesia's coal bed methane industry has significant potential and will play an important role in supplying the domestic market, providing commercial opportunities for investors and potentially changing the gas market dynamics of Asia Pacific, according to a recent report ...
The use of water and fossil fuels by the U.S. Defense Department will decline by more than 20 percent in 10 years, the agency announced in Washington. U.S. President Barack Obama, in an executive order signed in October, called on federal agencies to reduce use of water and ...
p>Four spot LNG cargoes, at least three term cargoes and a short-term LNG cargo are heading towards India as buyers scramble to import gas to make up for reduced domestic supplies, several sources said late Tuesday. The Panna offshore field suffered an unplanned shutdown July 21, ...
p>Pacific Gas & Electric did not receive calls from residents complaining of smelling natural gas odors in the days leading up to a pipeline explosion and fire that claimed four lives in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno last Thursday, a PG&E spokeswoman said Tuesday, ...
p>Germany's European Energy Exchange is to introduce a Natural Gas Index in 2011, the exchange said Wednesday. The new index will be based on the front month contracts on the Natural Gas Derivatives Market and all front-month trade transactions carried out at the EEX in the ...
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