China's state-owned refiners plan to run their refineries at around 81% of capacity in June, a rise of three percentage points from 78% in May, Platts monthly survey showed Monday. The survey this month covered 11 Sinopec refineries, ...
Tags: China Refiners, Sinopec, PetroChina
Reportedly, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), the Gulf Cooperation Council's largest steel producer, plans to develop two steel mills located at Saudi Arabia's Gulf coast area. The Jubail plant will design an annual processing ...
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MarkWest Energy is selling some of its natural gas gathering facilities in West Virginia for $210 million as it focuses on growing processing needs elsewhere in the Marcellus and Utica shales, the company said Wednesday. The sale of these ...
French oil and gas producer Total SA expects to launch more cooperations in the Chinese mainland. It launched Journey of Harmonious Energy, a national touring energy science exhibition, in Tianjin, a port city in north China, on May 22 ...
Tags: Cooperations, economy, Energy, oil, gas
The Punjab State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (MilkFed), the marketer of the Verka brand of dairy products, is set to establish four milk processing facilities in Punjab, India, with an investment of INR10bn ($179.5m). ...
US-based agri-processing company Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has unveiled a new soybean processing plant in Villeta, Paraguay, a move which creates 160 direct jobs. The new facility is located adjacent to the existing ADM ...
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Brazilian meat producer JBS has agreed to acquire Unidade Industrial Ana Rech hog processing facility, 491,000 hogs and poultry farm assets from BRF Brasil Foods, in a deal worth BRL200m ($100m). Under the terms of the deal, JBS will pay ...
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It is reported that Korean Posco announced to set up a new coil service center in India's northern state of Haryana. The new coil center will be able to meet the demand for car makers such as Maruti Suzuki India and Tata Motors. Meanwhile, ...
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China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), welcoming the 20th anniversary in 2013, has had eight refinery projects abroad by the end of 2012, with annual processing capacity of 13 million tons, said an executive of China National Oil and ...
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State-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) signed a joint venture agreement Sunday with France's Total and Japan's Idemitsu, Cosmo Oil, Marubeni and Mitsui for a new condensate refinery to be built in Qatar at Ras Laffan Industrial City. Under the ...
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Oman Sugar Refinery (OSRC) has signed an agreement to establish first sugar refinery facility in the country at the Port of Sohar with an estimated investment of $200m. The agreement was signed by Port of Sohar secretary-general of the ...
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US-based poultry firm Allen Harim is in talks to acquire former Pinnacle Foods (Vlasic) processing facility in Millsboro, Delaware, US with an investment of about $100m. The 460,000ft2 remodeled facility would employ 700 people and will ...
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Oman's first sugar refinery facility at the Port of Sohar is set to be to be operational by early 2015. Port of Sohar executive commercial manager Edwin Lammers said that the facility will be constructed at a waterfront site adjacent to a ...
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Richardson Oilseed plans to expand its canola processing facility in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, a move which will more than double the processing capacity at the facility. The expansion will also enhance efficiencies at the facility ...
Tags: Oilseed, Agriculture, Food
It is reported that Tradisa, the largest steel service center in Peru planned to invest new cutting and bending machines in order to improve its processing capacity by 5% this year. Currently, the company has processed hot rolled, cold ...
Tags: steel service, steel, long products