Indian refining and petrochemical giant Reliance Industries Ltd. Friday reported a 7.9% year-on-year decline in its gross refining margin for the January-March quarter, to $9.30/barrel. However, the company showed an increase of 22.3% ...
Tags: refining, petrochemical, refined products
Venezuela's CVG-Bauxilum alumina sales totaled 64,126 mt in March, up 57% from 40,822 mt in March 2013, Bauxilum said Friday. March sales were also up 13% month on month from sales of 56,524 mt in February. Of March sales, 46,018 mt ...
Renewable energy company Lightsource has this month invested in a ground-mounted photovoltaic power plant, which boasts a capacity of 8.4MWp, approximately 40 miles from Bristol. The solar investor struck up a deal with ET Solutions AG, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Power Plant
Russian gas giant Gazprom has sent the first cargo with crude produced at the Prirazlomnoye offshore field -- the country's only Arctic offshore hydrocarbon project -- to the international market, the company said Friday. "ARCO, or Arctic ...
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Dal-Tile recently completed the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) development process for all products manufactured in the company’s North American production facilities. With third party validation from PE International and ...
China's white-box tablet players have been turning to adopt application processor (AP) solutions from Intel and MediaTek for their 3G and LTE-enabled models because of Intel's subsidies for tablet products and MediaTek solutions' pricing ...
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2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the first ever Chateau La Cornue created by André Dupuy. He was the son of Albert, the father of the vaulted oven and the founder of La Cornue in 1908. To mark this anniversary, ...
On the 2014 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd. will exhibit the full range of China IV products, demonstrating its strength of technological innovation and energy saving. In January 2013, ...
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Panasonic has firmed up plans for assigning headquarters functions to Southeast Asia as early as this summer for consumer electronics operations there. Planning and development of products will be localized, shifting decision-making ...
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As tech clichés go, “big data” falls somewhere between “cloud” and “social” on the list of terms you’re probably tired of hearing — ideas so broad they mean hardly anything at all. ...
Tags: big data, electronics supply chain
UK spot gas prices were sliding again Thursday morning, compared with Wednesday's close, as the system remained well supplied and demand low, and with regular deliveries of Qatari LNG recently. By 09:25 UK time, the NBP within-day had ...
Tags: LNG terminal, Spot Gas
Australian exploration and production company Santos produced 12.2 million barrels of oil equivalent in the first quarter of 2014, up 1% year on year, the company said Thursday. Santos attributed the rise to increased oil output following ...
Tags: Gas production, LNG, Crude oil
US-based PVC and caustic soda producer Shintech wants to site its new 500,000 mt/year ethylene plant at Plaquemine, Louisiana, according to a state Department of Environmental Quality air permit application made available to Platts on ...
This Earth Week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is empowering Americans across the country to act on climate change through simple actions to reduce carbon pollution in their daily lives. Across the country, EPA will be ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today ordered Molycorp Minerals, LLC, to pay a $27,300 penalty for improper management of hazardous waste at its San Bernardino County mine and mineral processing facility. The violations were ...
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