The Board of Directors of Attock Cement Pakistan Limited (ACPL) has informed the Karachi Stock Exchange that the company intends to invest around $25 million in a new cement grinding unit in Basra, Iraq. The announcement was made through a ...
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The Asia Contract Price for paraxylene is likely to reach a settlement for June, after no conclusion for May, as a firmer purified terephthalic acid production margin has narrowed the gap between buyers and sellers, sources close to the ...
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The availability of spot butane at the French Mediterranean port of Lavera is tight due to petrochemicals and export demand, according to industry sources Tuesday. During the summer, surplus butane from refineries at Lavera is used as an ...
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The May US contract price for acetone settled initially in a rollover at 58.50 cents/lb ($1,289.69/mt), sources said Tuesday. The US acetone contract typically settles retroactively. "The settlement is not industry-wide yet," one market ...
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First place wins £100 of Pink Poppy prizes and two runners up win £50 prizes each. Marbel Toys is running a Pink Poppy colouring-in competition, offering three lucky winners the chance to win Pink Poppy prizes worth ...
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A spike in Japan's thermal coal imports in April was more a short-term push to accommodate new coal-fired power generation capacity coming online rather than any sign of a sustained long-term trend, according to a report by Macquarie ...
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A combination of new supply sources and rising costs at home could mean Australia's burgeoning LNG sector losing ground to new players, several speakers at an oil industry conference in Brisbane warned this week. On Sunday the chief ...
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Discovery Gas Transmission may build 9.5 miles of pipeline and other facilities off the coast of Louisiana to provide 405,000 Dt/d of firm transportation service, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said in a recent order. The ...
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Saudi Aramco boosted its crude production to a record 9.506 million b/d in 2012, excluding blended natural gas liquids, up 5% from 9.068 million b/d in 2011, the company said in its latest annual report. "During 2012 at Saudi Aramco, we ...
Tags: Saudi Aramco, Crude Output
TAIPEI manufacturer Asus is getting a reputation for eccentricity. Recently it released the Transformer AiO all-in-one computer with an 18.4-inch LED tablet of genetically modified proportions. Some time back there was the Padfone, a ...
Tags: Asus Fonepad, Consumer Electronics, Nexus 7
Reportedly, Korean major pipe maker SeAH Steel announced to start its new JCOE carbon steel pipe at its Pohang works, north of Busan for early June. The new plant has designed an annual steel pipe production capacity of 120,000 tons ...
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It’s reported that Malaysian steel industry official is proposing mergers and acquisitions to the steel industry in Malaysia to fight against cheap imports from foreign competition in nearby countries. The steel consumption in ...
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The location and nature of the Scarborough natural gas field off Western Australia mean the project will be "very challenged from a cost point of view," Mark Nolan, ExxonMobil's vice president for Middle East and Australia, said Monday. ...
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The newly appointed managing director of Kuwait's Petrochemical Industry Company), which is at the center of a political crisis over a $2.2 billion compensation payment to Dow Chemical, has said that implementation of a number of planned ...
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The new is specially designed to help workplace duty holders to comply with the latest guidance on safeguarding against the risks posed by appliances and other equipment. The latest IET Code of Practice stresses the importance of taking a ...
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