Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) has announced that its board of directors have approved a joint venture project for the construction of a high-strength galvanized automotive sheet ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
In 2013, Ukraine registered an unchanged finished steel product output compared to 2012 at the level of 29.038 million mt, a one percent increase in its crude steel output to 32.684 million mt, and a two percent rise in its pig iron ...
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Sichuan Province-based Chinese state-owned steel producer Panzhihua Iron and Steel (Pangang Group) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Sichuan-based CSR Meishan Rolling Stock Co. regarding cooperation in the fields of ...
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US coal production totaled 256.7 million st in the third quarter of 2013, up 5.6% from the second quarter but down 0.9% from the year-ago period, according to the Quarterly Coal Report issued Thursday by the US Energy Information ...
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Spot prices for 75%-Si ferrosilicon in Asia were steady this week as offers from Chinese sellers remained supported by strong demand and supply tightness in the domestic market. Platts assessed the Chinese export price at $1,460-1,480/mt ...
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Environmentalists hoping that oil production will peak in 2014 will be disappointed. New supplies will comfortably outstrip fresh demand, preventing prices from rising. Countries leading the way will include Brazil, Iraq, America and ...
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Petrobras announces that in November,Petrobras'total oil and natural gas output in Brazil was 2,342,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day(boed),up 1.2%from the 2,315,000 boed extracted a month earlier.Including the share operated by ...
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Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has signed a data licensing agreement worth around USD 1.2 million for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS's multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. In addition, the ...
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The importance of safety in the offshore industry will be the subject of discussion at the next evening meeting and supper hosted by the Energy Institute in Aberdeen. Guest speaker Steve Bullock,senior vice president HSSEIA Offshore ...
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BP Norway has extended the contract for the jack-up Maersk Reacher by two years from September 2014 to September 2016.BP Norway holds options to further extend the contract by up to additional four years until September 2020.The estimated ...
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The Chinese ex-works Henan alumina price stood at Yuan 2,530/mt ($415) Monday at 30% credit payment terms, edging up Yuan 10/mt from Friday and a week ago. The majority of spot trades for December and January have concluded due to the ...
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Siemens last month inked a deal with the Cape Wind project that could be a significant step to advance wind farm activity in the United States. The plant is to operate in New England, on Horseshoe Shoal, an area of water toward the center ...
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NYMEX February crude settled 87 cents lower at $98.42/barrel Tuesday in low volume, pre-New Year's holiday trade, with the rest of the complex mixed. ICE February Brent settled 41 cents lower at $110.80/b. In products, NYMEX January ULSD ...
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and Johns Hopkins University have found that an increase in the use of wind power generation can make the power grid more fragile and susceptible to disruptions. But the researchers didn't ...
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After Taiwan's China Steel Corp. (CSC) had cut its wire rod base price by NT$400/MT in this December, CSC has announced recently that they will keep its electric furnace's Al-killed steel wire rod base price flat for next January. CSC's ...