US-based Cargill has introduced a new low-cost and easy-to-use ingredient known as IngreVita. The new ingredient, which is a blend of oleic canola oil, fish oil and proprietary antioxidants, provides long-chain omega-3s (EPA and DHA) and ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, Sinopec, said Monday it expects its Fuling shale gas project in Chongqing, central China, to reach production capacity of 10 billion cubic meters/year during 2017, up from 600 million cu m/year currently. ...
Iraq aims to boost its oil exports by nearly 26% to 3.4 million b/d in 2014, a senior official said Wednesday. "Exports reached more than 2.7 million b/d this month, and the rate [that] is planned for 2014, including exports from the ...
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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Indian refiner Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd is close to completing the long-drawn-out third phase of its expansion project, which will see a new petroleum fluid catalytic cracker and delayed coker unit come onstream at its 15 ...
Tags: Refinery Expansion, Metallurgy
Four industry sources have told Reuters that Swiss oil trader Trafigura is still indirectly supplying gasoline to Iraq through another firm, despite being banned from participating in tenders for 2013 after buying oil from Iraqi Kurdistan. ...
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Reuters reports that Iraq has sweetened the terms for oil contract buyers and is becoming more competitive on pricing. Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi [Elaibi], who met customers in Vienna last month on the sidelines of the OPEC meeting, ...
The Kurdistan Regional Government is proud of the achievements of its oil and gas industry since the fall of the former regime in 2003. It expects the federal government of Iraq to be proud of them, too. Since oil exports from the ...
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Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) has issued a statement suggesting it will take legal action against companies exporting crude oil without dealing with the central government, including the confiscation of cargoes and ...
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A member of Iraq’s Oil and Energy parliamentary committee has said that the Ministry of Electricity has taken over the task of inspecting the fuel used in electricity stations from the Ministry of Oil’s State Oil Marketing ...
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Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation has finalized a term deal to buy up to 1.097 million tonnes of gasoil for delivery next year from Swiss trader Vitol and oil major BP. Traders said that the company has agreed to pay a premium of ...
Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation(SOMO)has this morning adjusted its official selling prices for its Basra Light and Kirkuk crude grades for January. In common with some other countries,Iraq's oil is priced relative to regional ...
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Reuters reports that LUKoil,Russian's biggest non-state oil producer,which is believed to be considering buying ExxonMobil's stake in the West Qurna-1 oil field,has bought oil from Kurdistan in defiance of Baghdad. Baghdad has long ...
Tags: LUKoil, ExxonMobil, oil producer, Kurdistan