The demand for Bisphenol A is mainly triggered by growing demand from electrical and electronic and automotive industries. Asia Pacific dominates the global market for Bisphenol A. The Bisphenol A report by Transparency Market Research ...
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Vale announced Monday that it plans to sell as much as 407 million shares (an approximate 22 percent stake) of Oslo, Norway-based aluminum producer Norsk Hydro ASA in order to cut costs and boost profits. Norsk Hydro is valued at about ...
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Tethys’ share of the production, before government take, from Blocks 3 and 4 onshore the Sultanate of Oman amounted in October 2013 to 143,388 barrels of oil, corresponding to 4,625 barrels of oil per day (bopd). The total production ...
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We are pleased to announce that Minera Antucoya, located in Chile, which is owned 30% by Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni”) and 70% by Antofagasta plc (“Antofagasta”), one of the world’s leading copper ...
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The Mitsui Chemicals Group targets strengthening and further production expansion of its already global top class competitive polypropylene for automotive materials, currently manufactured in eight major world markets (Japan, United States, ...
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The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes narrowed $19/mt Monday from Friday's level, to $173/mt, a one year-low, as MX was strengthening amid a bearish PX market, Platts data showed. Isomer-MX on an FOB ...
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Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Toshimitsu Motegi, Thursday asked visiting US energy secretary Ernest Moniz to move forward the two countries' bilateral agreement on methane hydrate cooperation, a METI source said. The ...
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Ocean Power Technologies and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding announce agreement to commercialize PowerBuoys? Friday, Nov 01, 2013 Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPTT) ("OPT" or the "Company") and Mitsui Engineering & ...
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Idemitsu Kosan would soon restart its olefins conversion unit (OCU) at its Chiba refinery, which was shutdown due to a fire incident earlier this week. “The fire occurred at the refinery on the morning of October 16, 2013,” ...
Work on construction of a US$ 4.5 billion petrochemical complex in Vietnam, a joint venture of Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) and Thailand-based Siam Cement Group (SCG) and its Vietnamese partners - PetroVietnam (PVN) and Vinachem, is ...
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Paraxylene market participants expect another tough round of negotiations for the Asian Contract Price for October amid tight PX supplies and a bearish downstream purified terephthalic acid market, sources close to the negotiations said ...
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Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production PCL, the country's flagship petroleum explorer, might invest in North American shale-gas and Myanmar deep-water projects as part of its plan to nearly double its output by 2020. PTTEP, which made ...
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Mitsui Chemicals had shut a naphtha cracker located in Osaka, Japan for maintenance turnaround on September 19, 2013, and the plant is likely to restart operations in the beginning of October 2013. “The naphtha cracker has ...
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China's top three oil and gas producers have signed up for bidding for a block of a deepwater oil field in Brazil, each. Brazil will hold a bidding for a pre-salt block in the Libra oil field and the first round is scheduled to be held on ...
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Pentaerythritol finds its application in various industries such as automobiles, construction, paints, etc. The growing automobile and construction industry, especially in developing countries is expected to lead to a significant growth for ...
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