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Sinopec Yanshan Petrochemical is expected to refine 950,000mt of crude oil in August, up 8% from the previous month, a source with the refinery said. The refinery's production would be affected little by glitch of an 800,000-mt/yr reformer, which would be under maintenance for a ...
The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF) destroyed the oldest mustard ton container stored at the Umatilla Chemical Depot Tuesday. The 70-year-old ton container was manufactured in 1940. In 1946, it was filled with 1,768 pounds of mustard agent at the Rocky Mt. ...
Dow Chemical Co. -- one of the world s largest plastics and chemicals makers -- will run a one-day pilot test to determine if plastic waste can be used as fuel in its operations. The trial is set to take place by the end of July at Dow s headquarters site in Midland, Mich. ...
SINGAPORE ,July 29-Asian phenol spot prices were close to a 2-year high on escalating domestic values in China and tight supply due to robust downstream bisphenol A (BPA) demand, though the uptrend was unlikely to last long, sources said on Thursday. Spot prices rose $50/tonne ( ...
JSP Ltd., the manufacturer of the expanded polypropylene Apro material, is expanding in Asia with a new manufacturing site in Chennai, India, and additional production capacity at the JSP site in Guangdong, China.The expansion in China will bring Tokyo-based JSP s total capacity ...
South China is estimated to import 250,000-300,000mt of fuel oil (excluding cutback bitumen) in July, sharply down 37% from C1's estimation of 437,000mt for June, slumping 56% compared to the same period last year, C1 estimated. Higher import costs on rises in crude futures ...
There s a little something extra in the Sandpoint water, but ti won t be there much longer. City leaders voted to stop adding fluoride to the water. This comes amid recent arguments from people saying they re being medicated against their will. A group of citizens have been ...
PetroChina Jinxi Petrochemical is scheduled to overhaul all of its units from Aug 1, expected to be completed at the end of the month, according to a refinery source. PetroChina's 8-mil-mt/yr Daqing Refining & Chemical would go into overall turnaround at the same time, showed C1...
Operation rates of independent refineries in Shandong Province edged up to 40% Thursday, up 1 percentage point from one week ago, down 3 percentage points compared to a year earlier, a survey found. Some refineries increased run rates on rises in prices of products from cokers, ...
Quaker Chemical Corporation (NYSE:KWR - News) today announced second quarter 2010 net sales of $136.0 million and earnings per diluted share of $0.80, compared to net sales of $102.3 million and earnings per diluted share of $0.29 for the second quarter of 2009. For the first ...
Minor refineries in South China's Guangdong Province ran at 17% on average Thursday, up 3 percentage points from one week ago, 4 percentage points higher than a year earlier, a survey found. Five refineries were in operation at present, with feedstock throughput totaling 5,750mt ...
Sinopec Luoyang Petrochemical is expected to complete maintenance of a 1.4-mil-mt/yr fluid catalytic cracker at the end of July, which was shut down late Jul 13 due to glitch, a refinery source said. With the unit back into operation, Luoyang Petrochemical would resume crude ...
Maoming Petrochemical plans to consume 1.2-mil mt of crude in August, steady on month and also the highest level in history, a refinery source said. The source ascribed the still high target to good crude refining margins and ethylene sales profits. Maoming Petrochemical, located ...
The Guangzhou municipal government has yet to receive approval from the National Development & Reform of Commission on retail prices of GB IV vehicle use gasoline and gasoil, which was scheduled to be popularized in the city from Aug 1, C1's survey found. Sinopec has get ready to ...
East China is estimated to import 410,000-430,000mt of fuel oil in July, sharply down 117,000mt or 22% from the previous month, showed C1's estimation. Market sources ascribed the obvious drop to persistently weak demand from both bunker market and local refineries. Based on ...
Six more companies have been granted oil product wholesale licenses by the Ministry of Commerce of PRC (MOFCOM), according to a notification released by MOFCOM on Jul 23. These six companies are Jingzhou Branch of PetroChina Hubei, Xianning Branch of PetroChina Hubei, Wuxi Xishan ...
DuPont has reported second-quarter consolidated net sales of $8.6 billion, 26 per cent higher than the prior year. The higher sales reflect 21 per cent higher volume, 5 per cent higher local selling prices, one per cent positive impact from currency exchange rates, and one per ...
Zachem's 75kt/y TDI facility, the only TDI facility in Poland, finally resumed production on July 28th after it failed to restart for the several times. The company said on July 20th that its TDI manufacturing facility located in Bydgoszcz, Poland failed to restart for the third ...
Business Financial Newswire - Bayer Group reports gains in sales and earnings in the second quarter of 2010. It said business at MaterialScience expanded strongly, with volumes returning to the pre-crisis level and sales at HealthCare improved slightly but business at CropScience ...
China's Gansu Yinguang Chemical planned to shut down its 100kt/y TDI facility from Aug 1 for annual maintenance, a company source said recently. The company had started maintenance work since middle June, by July 22, about 20% planned maintenance work had been finished. China ...
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