Tongyi, a joint venture between Shell and Huo’s Group, is a prominent Chinese lubricant supplier with blending plants in Beijing, Xianyang of Shaanxi province and Wuxi of Jiangsu province. Shell acquired its 75% stake from Huo’s ...
Tags: Shell, Huo's Group, lubricant
“The sale is consistent with Shell’s strategy to concentrate its Downstream footprint on a smaller number of assets and markets where it can be most competitive,” said John Abbott, Shell Downstream Director. ...
Tags: Shell, Idemitsu, shareholding
Saudi Arabian Oil Company ("Saudi Aramco") through its wholly owned Saudi Refining Inc. ("SRI") subsidiary and Royal Dutch Shell plc ("Shell"), through its U.S. downstream affiliate, announce today they have signed a non-binding Letter of ...
Tags: Saudi Aramco, SRI, Motiva
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 6 (or Note 7?) is nearly upon us, and the leaks are basically interminable. Today’s hot rumour concerns the new Note’s screen. Samsung is planning to follow on from the success of the critically ...
Tags: Galaxy Note 6, curved dual-edge variant, AMOLED screen
Coal exports from Australia's Gladstone port exceeded 7 million mt in November, as buyers from China, Japan and South Korea increased their offtake, a report from Gladstone port authority Friday said. Throughput at the port -- which ships ...
Tags: Coal exports, thermal coal, coking coal
Asian paraxylene buyers placed their counterbids for June at $1,150-1,170/mt CFR, more than $100/mt lower than nominations for the Asian contract price, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. There are four PX ACP sellers in ...
Tags: paraxylene, oil
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan decided to not move forward with their proposed joint venture to construct a Linear Alpha Olefins unit on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Accordingly, The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Counter bids for May Asian Contract Price for paraxylene were in a range of $1,040-1,100/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Tuesday. There are four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and JX Nippon Oil ...
Tags: Paraxylene, PX ACP
Astomos Energy, Japan's top LPG supplier, said Wednesday it has concluded additional contracts with US' Enterprise Product Partners, including a deal to buy 500,000 mt/year of US LPG over 2019-21. Astomos will also increase its US LPG ...
Citing a source from Panasonic invested company Idemitsu Kosan, the report noted lower profitability in the OLED sector was the main reason behind Panasonic’s withdrawal from the OLED market. OLED related businesses will be dissolved ...
Tags: LED products, OLED Business, Panasonic
Counter bids for the April Asian Contract Price for paraxylene are seen to come in at around $1,050-1,100/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. The four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and ...
Tags: Paraxylene, PTA market, PTA producers
Negotiations for the January Asian Contract Price for paraxylene remained slow Friday, the final negotiation day, with neither buyers nor sellers revising their prices to narrow a wide gap, sources close to the talks said. There are four ...
Tags: Paraxylene, Chemicals
Senegal hopes to find shale gas in its onshore Paleozoic Basin in the next two years having awarded exploration licenses to international companies, the head of state-owned Petrosen said Thursday. The west African nation, already a small ...
Tags: Shale Gas, Metallurgy
A group comprised of 17 oil and gas companies has established a project for joint seismic acquisition in the southeastern Barents Sea. Statoil is the operator of the project. At the request of the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil, gas
Fuji Oil may consider entering into alliances with other companies in the Japanese refining and petrochemical sector, where it can benefit, a senior company official with the Japanese refiner said. "We are not able to speak about anything ...
Tags: oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy