Coal exports from terminals in Virginia's Hampton Roads region totaled 1.93 million st in October, down 1.9% from September and down 29.1% on the year, according to figures released Tuesday by the Virginia Maritime Association. While the ...
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German power contracts for Monday delivery lost ground during Friday trading, yet remained buoyant on low renewables forecasts and reduced availability of coal-fired units. At Platts' 1100 GMT close, baseload power for Monday delivery was ...
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China's state-owned oil giants Sinopec and PetroChina reported a modest 1.73 million mt or 0.7% increase in their domestic oil products sales in the first nine months of 2015, but exports rose by 2.59 million mt or 12% in the same period, ...
Dated Brent has fallen to a nine-week low, with uncommitted November Brent and Forties cargoes weighing on values amid weak local refinery uptake of the grade, sources said. Dated Brent fell to Forward Dated Brent minus 51 cents/b Monday, ...
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The Obama administration on Tuesday said it will continue to process TransCanada's application for a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, even as it considers the company's request to suspend the review. "We would like to finish this ...
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China's independent teapot refiners are showing little interest in participating in Russian M100 tenders that are set to be issued in late September or early October, market sources said Thursday. Only two 40,000 mt cargoes of Russian ...
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China's refinery throughput rose 4.3% year on year to 43.54 million mt or an average 10.30 million b/d in July, preliminary data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday. The July rate was down slightly from 10.59 million ...
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China's iron ore demand is falling, but its share of imports from mining giants Australia and Brazil is rising, which is squeezing smaller miners and curbing their supply. China imported 453.1 million mt of iron ore in January-June, with ...
German petrochemicals producer BASF said July 24 that it expected the economic slowdown in China, margin volatility and growth uncertainty in Europe to be the biggest risks to growth for its chemicals division during the second half of the ...
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China's June imports of thermal coal slumped to a four-month low of 6.21 million mt, a 43% on-year drop and down 4% on the previous month, according to customs data released Wednesday. The tally comprises bituminous and sub-bituminous ...
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China's net imports of LPG fell to 729,789 mt in May after rising for four months in a row. The imports fell 23% from 944,603 mt in April, data released Thursday by the General Administration of Customs showed. Net imports of LPG, ...
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Shanghai's International Energy Exchange or INE intends to allocate 34 million barrels of storage space along China's eastern coast to serve participants of the country's proposed crude oil futures contract, officials said at the Shanghai ...
China's appetite for imported naphtha has grown since the start of the year on the back of strong demand from petrochemical producers, market sources and traders said this week Imports of the petrochemical feedstock over January-April ...
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Spot offers for Chinese electrolytic manganese metal, or EMM, on a FOB basis have halted the downward trend seen since March, market sources said Friday. Despite the prevailing weak overseas demand, sources said Chinese domestic prices ...
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Spot offers for Chinese electrolytic manganese metal, or EMM, on a FOB basis have halted the downward trend seen since March, market sources said Friday. Despite the prevailing weak overseas demand, sources said Chinese domestic prices ...
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