Indian state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced that it achieved seven percent year-on-year growth in total finished steel sales in February this year, while its finished steel output amounted to 1 ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral
In February this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector stood at 39.9 percent, down by 0.8 percentage points as compared to January, falling to the lowest level since September 2012, as announced by the China ...
Tags: Steel Sector, Mineral
Sao Paulo, Brazil-based iron ore mining company and flat rolled steel producer Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013. In the fourth quarter, CSN ...
US fuel oil demand fell to a seven-month low of 218,000 b/d in December, while 2013 demand overall was the lowest on record, US Energy Information Administration data published Thursday showed. The Thursday data are monthly numbers ...
Angolan April crude cargoes have sold steadily so far with more than half of the program already cleared, but Asian demand is expected to slow down ahead of a heavy refinery maintenance season, trading sources said Thursday. Activity on ...
Tags: Crude Cargoes, Mineral
US coal production totaled about 18.8 million st in the week that ended Saturday, the Energy Information Administration said Thursday. This production estimate, based on railcar loadings, is 1.9% lower than the previous week's estimate ...
Tags: Coal Production, Mineral
Rosneft estimates that crude production from its East Siberian and Russian Far Eastern projects will amount to 55 million mt/year, or 1.1 million b/d, by 2025, a spokesman at Rosneft said Friday. To achieve this, the company plans to ...
Tags: Rosneft, Crude Output
As we have seen in recent months, energy storage is becoming a pretty big deal. California has the country's first energy storage mandate in place, and plants like Solana in Arizona have started trying to incorporate storage in from the ...
Tags: Salt, Storage, energy storage
About 18 months ago, I wrote about an MIT project in which computer models demonstrated that graphene could act as a filter in the desalination of water through the reverse osmosis (RO) method. RO is slightly less energy intensive than the ...
Russian ultra low sulfur diesel exports may struggle to find a home in the UK in the winter after the country's oil importers agreed earlier this month to enact a new test to assess the fuel's filter-blocking tendency, traders said Friday. ...
The drop in net imports of oil (crude and petroleum products combined) was the major contributor to the United States reaching its lowest net trade deficit in November 2013 since 2009, although the trade deficit increased in the final month ...
Tags: lowest net trade deficit, stagnating domestic product demand
Brazil-based miner Vale has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013, reporting a net loss of $6.45 billion, compared to a net loss of $2.61 billion in the same quarter of the previous year, as a ...
France-based pipe manufacturer Vallourec has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013, while also stating that for 2014 it expects a stable to moderate increase in sales and EBITDA. According to ...
Tags: Mineral, Vallourec's sales
Russian coal mining company Kuzbassrazrezugol has announced that a new dressing plant to handle 3 million metric tons of coal per year will be constructed at the Kaltansky opencast coal mine. The new Kaltanskaya-Energeticheskaya dressing ...
Tags: coal mining, Mineral
Shen Danyang, spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC), has stated that the MOC holds a cautious but optimistic view on China's foreign trade situation in 2014 and is confident that the country's foreign trade will indicate similar ...
Tags: Customs data, Mineral