China's alumina output is forecast to rise 13.8% year on year to 53.5 million mt in 2014, an analyst from state nonferrous information division Beijing Antaike said Friday. Realized alumina output totaled 47 million mt in 2013, according ...
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US crude stocks rose 1 million barrels last week, just over half of what analysts were expecting, as a drop in refinery run rates was partly offset by a decrease in US imports, according to data released Thursday by the US Energy ...
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China's recent move to digitally tag fuel cargoes to clamp down on the widespread practice of declaring crude purchases as fuel oil to evade taxes is already seen to be curbing demand for heavy Venezuelan Merey crude from teapot refiners in ...
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Canada-based steel fabricator ADF International, which recently built a plant in Great Falls, Montana, announced Thursday plans to build an adjacent 42,000-square-foot paint shop. Construction is expected to start in late March and finish ...
A combination of weak demand and expectations of lower import prices had weighed down on LPG spot prices in southern and eastern China over the week, domestic traders said Wednesday. Spot prices of imported LPG truck cargoes, including ...
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Eastern Canada's Nova Scotia government is in favor of the proposed 1.1 million b/d Energy East crude oil pipeline terminating at a deep water port in the province, rather than in neighboring New Brunswick on the Atlantic coast, the ...
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India's state-owned refiners, who have all posted net losses over the first nine months of fiscal year 2013-2014 (April-March), are expected to turn in a profit for the full year as the government is likely to fully compensate them for ...
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Valves are commonly used in the industry to stop or open the flow of gas, liquid or fuel. With the addition of the solenoid, valves can be operated by an electrical signal, which can immediately open or close the flow of water or air. A ...
Russia's gasoline and naphtha exports rose in January, as the cheaper ruble versus the US dollar made export netbacks more attractive, trading sources said. According to Energy Ministry figures, 384,370 mt of gasoline were exported in ...
The spot price for FOB butane barges in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp region have remained weak since the beginning of the year on poor demand, industry sources said Thursday. In winter, butane barges from ARA refineries are used for ...
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Polish biodiesel production jumped almost 11% on the year to 184,684 mt in the third quarter of 2013, the Energy Regulatory Office (URE) said Thursday. A local market source attributed the rise to strong downstream diesel demand bolstering ...
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Japan's direct-burning crude oil demand for power generation has picked up since late December as a cold spell across the country has increased appetite for loadings into March in the absence of nuclear output, industry and trading sources ...
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It may risk becoming an overused term but equipment obsolescence is a very real problem facing an increasing number of operators. Many of whom are reliant upon a mature electrical infrastructure often sweated well beyond the intended and ...
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You will find an automatic valve actuator working hard in many commercial and industrial applications, such as petrol refineries, oil plants, waste water management plants, and even in some sea-water marine mining and construction ventures. ...
The words "Made in China" are synonymous with inexpensive electronics and housewares purchased in the United States. But a consequence of Americans' buying habits is air pollution that's also made in China, researchers say. Much of the ...