Luxembourg-based global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that it is supplying more than 18,000 mt of rebar produced by Algeria-based ArcelorMittal Annaba for building the foundations of the 1.2 km Trans-Rhumel viaduct in Constantine, ...
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According to a report from the Lake Carriers’ Association, shipments of coal on the Great Lakes totaled 24.6 million tons in 2013, a decrease of 2.8 percent compared to 2012. Some of the decrease can be attributed to the early onset ...
According to the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in 2013 global crude steel output reached 1.61 billion mt, increasing by 3.5 percent on year-on-year basis. In December of the same year, world crude steel production for the 65 ...
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Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has announced that it has begun producing large diameter seamless pipes according to GOST and EN standards. The large diameter pipes are developed at Interpipe NTRP, where the ...
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According to the US Census Bureau, privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in December were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 986,000. This is 3.0 percent (±1.1 percent) below the revised November rate of ...
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In February this year, Ukraine's crude steel production is expected to decrease by 7.8 percent compared to the expected output in January to 2.49 million mt, according to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom. ...
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According to a statement released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD), in 2013 Turkey's crude steel production decreased by 3.4 percent year on year to 34.65 million metric tons, due to the decreasing price ...
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Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced its operational results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2013. Accordingly, Severstal's crude steel production in the fourth quarter decreased by seven percent to 3.78 million mt, while its ...
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Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced that it has reached agreements with its customers for coking coal sales for the first quarter of 2014. Accordingly, NWR has set the average agreed price of coking coal ...
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Russian pig iron and coking coal producer KOKS Group has announced it operational results for 2013. During 2013, KOKS produced 2.09 million mt of pig iron, down one percent compared to the previous year. In the given period, the company's ...
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Africa's biggest oil producer seeks balance between its profits and benefits in emerging markets such as China As Nigeria's government prepares to implement the Petroleum Industry Bill that will provide "long-term" investment prospects, ...
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China's unconventional natural gas output was 112 billion cubic meters in 2013, up only 0.34 percent year-on-year, a record low in five years, Sublime China Information Group Co Ltd said on Tuesday. Although the government has put great ...
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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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China saw a rise in crude oil imports from Kazakhstan last year via a transnational pipeline to Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Oil imports hit a record high of 11.85 million tons in 2013 through the China-Kazakhstan ...
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Markets for use of natural gas as a transportation fuel and to power industrial equipment are poised to take off in the next few years, the head of Encana said in Houston on Tuesday. "We at Encana believe that natural gas creates an ...
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