China will raise electricity tariffs for power plants running on natural gas in at least eight provinces, the National Development and Reform Commission has announced. Prices of on-grid tariffs at gas-fired power plants will be raised in ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, power
"We hate it when our friends become successful," lamented Morrissey. Canada's energy industry likely shares the gloomy British singer's sentiment. Canada sits just across the border from the world's largest oil and gas market, and its ...
Tags: Chemicals, Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON) in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom says it is losing US$6.1 million monthly due to high cost of production. Mrs Tatyana Smirnova, its Director of Public/Government Relation ...
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Regular inspections have been conducted on the number four reactor at Japan's Oi nuclear power plant. However, delayed inspections has once again led to Japan's "zero nuclear power" status. Since nuclear power is still the major source of ...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Triples PV Market
The expected price hike in electricity rates is expected to hit the profitability, though very marginally, of those cement companies that solely rely on the national grid power and do not have Waste Heat (WH) technology, compared to those ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Sustained weak demand from North Asian LNG end-users, reflected in the slump in spot prices, has shown little sign of recovering despite the start of the traditionally stronger summer season. Coming out of the April-May shoulder months, ...
Tags: Chemicals
The proportion of UK electricity generated from gas fell to 16-year lows last year as cheaper coal prices spurred generators into increasing coal-fired power to its greatest share of the electricity mix since 1996, government data shows. ...
Tags: Gas-Fired Power, Chemicals
BG Group has entered the regulatory phase of its Prince Rupert LNG project, submitting applications to Canadian and British Columbia environmental review agencies for a three-train operation aimed at eventually exporting 21 million mt/year, ...
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China's largest buyer of LNG, China National Offshore Oil Corp., is unlikely to seek additional spot cargoes before August as it has sufficient inventory from its term contracts, said industry sources Friday. A source close to the 2.8 ...
Tags: Spot LNG Cargoes, Chemicals
Americans take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use of solar and wind power in the United States makes the on-demand delivery of electricity more challenging. A key problem is that the ...
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China should take advantage of relatively low coal prices and import more to satisfy electricity demand in its most populous provinces, instead of relying on domestic coal, which is expensive to transport, according to a Chinese government ...
Tags: domestic coal, coal prices, coal
UK natural gas for same-day delivery rose to 108 pence/therm Monday morning -- a price the market has not closed above since 2006 -- due to unplanned North Sea outages. Stormy weather caused a failure in the Norwegian power grid system ...
Tags: gas, natural gas, oil pipeline system
Southeast Asia's LNG demand would represent a third of Asian LNG demand growth by 2025, while India's would represent one-seventh, Nicholas Browne, Senior Gas Market Analyst at Wood Mackenzie said Wednesday. Total Southeast Asian LNG ...
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China's dependence on foreign crude oil and refined oil products is set to increase, but the government has placed a cap at 61% of total requirements for the end of the current five-year economic plan in 2015, according to a new government ...
Tags: China, crude oil, refined oil products, energy development
Natural gas withdrawals from UK storage facilities hit a record high Wednesday as cold temperatures pushed up demand and prices. End-of-day nominations showed total withdrawals of 112 million cubic meters, of which 44 million cu m ...