Vietnam's oil product imports in February rose for a third consecutive month, on a year-on-year basis, following declines for most of last year, customs data released late Thursday showed. The country imported 602,827 mt of oil products ...
Tags: Oil Product, crude, gasoline
China's refinery crude throughput over January and February dipped 1% year on year to 78.78 million mt, or an average of 9.79 million b/d, according to preliminary data from the country's National Bureau of Statistics released Thursday. ...
With US refineries expanding their capacity to process more domestic light oil in the coming years, the US Energy Information Administration on Tuesday said it expects refinery crude inputs to reach 15.52 million b/d this year and 15.61 ...
Tags: US Refinery, Domestic Production, light oil
US commercial crude stocks are expected to have risen 2.3 million barrels for the week ended March 7, according to a Platts analysis and survey of oil analysts Monday. The American Petroleum Institute will release its weekly report at ...
Tags: Crude, commercial crude stocks
Mediterranean ultra low sulfur diesel cargoes are trading $10.25/mt above the Northwest European cargoes, the widest spread between the two regions since January 17 on tight prompt supply in the Med. The Med cargo cash premium to the ...
Tags: Diesel Cargoes, low sulfur diesel
Stocks of gasoline in the US West Coast region fell for the second consecutive week and the fifth week in the past six, dropping 620,000 barrels to 32.052 million barrels in the week ended Friday, data released Wednesday by the US Energy ...
The fuel oil physical hi-lo -- the premium of 1% FOB Northwest European cargoes over 3.5% FOB Rotterdam barges -- came off a 17-month high Tuesday morning, having surged $12.75/mt to $62.75/mt Monday on fears Russia may stop or reduce gas ...
Beginning in 2017, all gasoline sold in the US must contain less than 10 parts per million sulfur, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday, dismissing oil industry arguments that the new standard is unnecessary and could ...
Tags: Gasoline, Metallurgy
Desmet Ballestra has completed the installation of an oil refining and processing equipment developed by Cavitation Technologies (CTI) at soybean oil refinery in South Korea. The Nano Neutralization equipment is capable of processing more ...
Angolan April crude cargoes have sold steadily so far with more than half of the program already cleared, but Asian demand is expected to slow down ahead of a heavy refinery maintenance season, trading sources said Thursday. Activity on ...
Tags: Crude Cargoes, Mineral
Ethylene producers in Northwest Europe have fixed two cargoes to Asia for March loading driven by length in domestic market, the turnaround season in Asia and port congestion in the Middle East, sources said this week. Europe, a net ...
Russian ultra low sulfur diesel exports may struggle to find a home in the UK in the winter after the country's oil importers agreed earlier this month to enact a new test to assess the fuel's filter-blocking tendency, traders said Friday. ...
Cal Sensors announces the launch of a new line of single channel detectors (SCD) that block unwanted radiation below 1.2 microns.? Exploiting the innate transmission bandwidth of Silicon, the new SCD-Si detectors are packaged with ...
Tags: detectors
The drop in net imports of oil (crude and petroleum products combined) was the major contributor to the United States reaching its lowest net trade deficit in November 2013 since 2009, although the trade deficit increased in the final month ...
Tags: lowest net trade deficit, stagnating domestic product demand
Caustic soda or sodium hydroxide or lye is that chemical from which it is impossible to get rid of. May be only heard the name in your chemistry classes during experiments with bases, but just have a look on the labels of cleaning agents ...
Tags: Caustic soda, chlorine production, needs more precautions