ExxonMobil Chemical has started production on new polyethylene line at its Mont Belvieu plastics plant in Texas. The firm commenced production of the first of two new 650,000 tons-per-year high-performance polyethylene lines at the plant. ...
US crude exports rose 35,000 b/d to a record 692,000 b/d in September after Brent's premium to WTI widened, an analysis of Census Bureau data released Friday showed. Brent's premium over WTI widened from 34 cents/b in May to average ...
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Technovaa Packaging Industries, the industrial arm of Darvesh and a major paper products/plastic film producers in the regional packaging industry, has broken ground for a manufacturing facility at Kizad, according to the Abu Dhabi Ports ...
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US-based coal producer Walter Energy has announced that it has completed a previously announced transaction to sell the Blue Creek Terminal and associated properties, located in Mobile, Alabama, to the Alabama State Port Authority for $25 ...
Brazil-based iron and steel maker Gerdau said Tuesday its proposed logistics and mining investments will enable the company to more than double iron ore production within the next six years, to 24 million mt/yr, from the current 11.5 ...
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London-listed, Africa-focused miner African Minerals has announced that in the first quarter of the current year it achieved a record direct shipping iron ore production of 5.3 million mt, compared to 2.2 million mt in the same quarter of ...
GDF Suez has signed a sales and purchase heads of agreement with Japanese utility Tohoku Electric Power to deliver 270,000 mt/year of LNG over a 20-year period starting in 2018 from the planned Cameron LNG plant in the US, the French ...
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The export-oriented integrated Hemera Textile Mills constructed in the Turkish city of Midyat, located in the province of Mardin, has began operations this year, with an export target of textile and apparel products worth €5 million to ...
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US miner Drummond restarted coal loadings from its Colombian export terminal late Monday after its environmental restrictions were lifted following a three-month export ban, the company said in a statement. The miner's Colombian ...
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This year's spike of U.S. liquified propane (LP) prices has been blamed on increased grain drying, harsh winter weather, low supplies and exports. But, the increased amounts of product being exported, while many U.S. LP users struggle to ...
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US refiner Phillips 66 will move forward with $3 billion plans to build a natural gas liquids fractionator and an LPG export terminal in Texas, the company said Friday. The 100,000 b/d "Sweeny Fractionator One" will be located in Old ...
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US propane and propylene stocks are 31% under were they stood in 2012 on increasing exports, cold weather and changing infrastructure, Energy Information Administration data released Friday showed. The stocks fell 2.51 million barrels to ...
Infrastructure will remain the watchword as US refiners look to further cement their role as world class product exporters in 2014, improving export capacity and rejigging refineries to increase their output of export-friendly diesel, ...
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BlueScope today announced plans to expand its Taharoa, New Zealand, iron sands export operations through the introduction of a third shipping vessel in FY2016. BlueScope will charter a purpose built 175,000 tonne slurry loading vessel and ...
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El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. (NYSE: EPB) today announced that Shell US Gas & Power LLC (Shell), a Royal Dutch Shell plc subsidiary, has given notice to Elba Liquefaction Company, L.L.C. to move forward on Phase II of the jointly-owned ...
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