China's crude oil imports surpassed those of the United States in April, making it the world's largest oil importer, recent data showed. China imported 30.29 million tons of crude oil in April, or about 7.37 million barrels per day, data ...
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The US Energy Information Administration says that in September 2013, China’s net imports of petroleum and other liquids exceeded those of the United States on a monthly basis, making it the largest net importer of crude oil and other ...
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The Shanghai Futures Exchange is ready to roll out the country's first yuan-denominated crude oil futures, which it hopes will become a benchmark in Asia before gaining global influence. Yang Maijun, the bourse's chairman, said foreign ...
As China's economy increase slows, the United States' demand growth for oil outstripped China's last year for the first time since 1999, according to the Paris-based International Energy Agency. According to an IEA report, US oil demand ...
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Global demand for gasoline will remain flat from 2014-2040, but global demand for diesel should grow by about 75% over the period to meet the needs of trucks and other commercial transportation, ExxonMobil said Thursday in its annual ...
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China is expected to overtake the United States to become the world's largest oil importer in the 2020s as emerging economies, instead of developed ones, will claim most of the world's energy supplies, a report says. China will be the ...
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Italian firm plans to build world's largest cellulosic ethanol plant in China Commercial manufacture of cellulosic bioethanol from agricultural residue is expected to be given further impetus after commercial production begins in China ...
Tags: Agricultural Waste, Energy
Increase will exceed EU, US and Japan combined, says IEA report China will see the biggest absolute increase in power generation from renewable energy in the next 20 years, more than the increase in the European Union, the United States ...
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Pressure on resources to force change Greener growth and energy efficiency will be the key words for the future development of China's manufacturing sector in the face of growing pressure on resources and costs, a senior industrial ...
Tags: energy efficiency, Greener growth, chemical industry, low carbon
Media reports of China surpassing the United States as the world's biggest oil importer as shown by data from a U.S. government agency were somewhat overrated, experts said. Recently published data by the U.S. Energy Information ...
China's daily imports of crude rebounded in September from the previous month to a fresh record, bearing out forecasts for the country to overtake the United States as the world's largest oil importer, as refineries restarted following ...
World oil demand will rise by 1.1% this year to 90.26 million barrels a day, with gains coming from countries outside of the major industrialized nations, a U.S. government forecast said Tuesday. The Energy Information Administration said ...
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The government is expected to raise import duty on refined edible oil to 10%, from 7.5% at present, to protect the domestic oil refining industry. A Cabinet note regarding this has already been circulated by the Food Ministry, sources ...
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China is expected to surpass the US as the world's largest oil importer by 2017, and the opposing trend of growing crude oil imports by China and falling imports by the US will affect inter-regional trade flows and the cost to both ...
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China's biggest energy firm PetroChina (0857.HK) will join Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) in developing Iraq's giant West Qurna oilfield and is in talks with Russia's Lukoil (LKOH.MM) to buy into a second project at the field, industry sources said. ...
Tags: PetroChina, Iraqi Oilfield