Spring and fall outages are important events for power plants, involving months of careful planning to minimize downtime. As part of the outage at a major Canadian Power Generation Station in Ontario, 4 shutdown coolers with internal tube ...
Management of Dangote Cement has finalised arrangements to temporarily close down the company s four million metric tonnes-per-annum Gboko Plant, as a result of glut in the cement market. Group Head, Corporate Communication, Dangote ...
The News reported that after months of keeping their prices below Saudi Aramco contract price, state owned Oil and Gas Development Company Limited and Pak Arab Refinery raised their prices of liquefied petroleum gas to match the contract ...
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PPG Industries announced that its chlor-alkali complex in Lake Charles, La., experienced a production outage stemming from a major generator transformer failure, which resulted in an electrical disruption and subsequent shutdown of the ...
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Hitachi Ltd agreed to merge energy equipment businesses with combined sales of JPY 1.1 trillion (USD 13 billion), deepening ties between two of Japan's largest industrial manufacturers. Mitsubishi will ...
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The National Retail Federation today issued the following statement from President and CEO Matthew Shay on the negotiated settlement between The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 Office Clerical Unit and the Harbor ...
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Reuters reported that OPEC crude oil output has declined in November to its lowest since January because of disruptions to Nigerian output and reduced supplies from Angola and Libya. A Reuters survey found that supply from the 12 member ...
New Zealand's High Court ruled Wednesday that Kim Dotcom and a Megaupload colleague can pursue damages against police and one of the country's spy services for illegally intercepting their communications. In her judgment,Justice Helen ...
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Taiwan-based Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) producer - Shinkong Synthetic Fibers has reduced capacity rates at its PET plant and has also planned a turnaround. “The PET plant is currently operating at 85 percent production ...
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Ring Container has appointed the Energy and Sustainability division of Premier Alliance Group to implement cost cutting measures through Southern California Edison’s (SCE) automated demand response (Auto-DR) program. Incentives of ...
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General Motors (GM) of Canada is investing $850m in its research and development (R&D) activities at the Canadian Engineering Centre in Oshawa, Ontario between 2009 and 2016. According to the GM, the investment will offer long-term ...
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Japan’s imports of naphtha, a key raw material for production of ethylene used in the textile industry, grew by 5.3 percent month-on-month in October to 1.183 million tons, according to the figures released by the Ministry of Economy, ...
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The ExxonMobil Chemical Plant has warned the communities of Mossmorran in the United Kingdom about the intermittent flaring at the Fife Ethylene Plant. The plant was shutdown for maintenance work and it has restarted again. “As ...
After a two-day outage, Internet access in war-torn Syria appears to be for the most part restored on Saturday, according to reports from several sources. "Renesys confirms a largely complete restoration of the Syrian Internet this ...
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IDG News Service-Syrians are turning to satellites to communicate as the country's Internet connections are shut down,but instances of jamming are making even that challenging.Google is also allowing people who can find a working phone ...
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