China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said Tuesday that it will not seek to lower coal output in large scale, even as it continues to rationalize supply. This is provided that prices remain in a reasonable boundary. ...
Tags: Coal Mines, Coal
Numerical targets to reduce coal and steel production capacity have, for the first time, been set in the annual Chinese government work report. China will reduce steel production capacity this year by around 50 million metric tons and ...
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China's top economic planner will not adjust domestic retail oil prices as global prices have stayed below the official pricing mechanism, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Under the current mechanism, prices of refined oil ...
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China imported 398,568 mt of copper concentrate from Peru in January, up 27% year on year, latest data released over the weekend by the General Administration of Customs showed. Peru edged out Chile as China's top source of imported ...
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Freight rates for shipping coal from northern China's Qinhuangdao port to the other Chinese ports of Zhangjiagang, Shanghai and Guangzhou in eastern and southern China began to rise in the week to Tuesday, port operator Qinhuangdao Port ...
Tags: coal, coal demand
Pakistan plans to ambitiously grow its LNG imports over the next few years, Adnan Gilani, the chief operating office of Pakistan LNG Ltd. (PLL), re-affirmed at the LNG Supplies for Asian Market (LNGA) conference in Singapore this week. ...
Tags: LNG, LNG imports
Although the Lunar New Year holiday has ended, employees in China will have to wait until the Lantern Festival to return to work. In addition, power plant installation has been suspended in China during the Lunar New Year holiday, leading ...
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China has the largest capacity for photovoltaic (PV) energy in the world, official data showed Saturday. China's installed PV capacity was 77.42 million kilowatts at the end of 2016, thanks to 34.54 million kilowatts of capacity added ...
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Amid the country's effort to build a greener energy system, the country's raw coal production by its large-size coal companies continued to decline in 2016. Combined raw coal production from the country's designated large coal companies ...
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The Asian butadiene-naphtha price spread hit a seven-year high of $2,557.38/mt CFR last Friday amid extremely tight supply globally and strong demand for downstream products such as styrene-butadiene-rubber, SB latex and ...
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Major Chinese miner Shenhua Group's commercial coal production in December reached 25.30 million mt, up 0.4% year on year, the company said Sunday. Coal sales rose 4.8% year on year to 34.7 million in December, of which sales of ...
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China aims to increase domestic crude oil output to 200 million tonnes by 2020, while supply capacity for natural gas should exceed 360 billion cubic meters, according to plans published Thursday. China will add 1 billion tonnes of proven ...
China imported 26.84 million mt of coal in December, including lignite, thermal and metallurgical material, down 0.5% from November but up 52.2% year on year, according to preliminary data released Friday by China's General Administration ...
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An operator of Shilihe filling station was refuelling a car on December 30, 2016.(Photo/Hu Qingming) Sinopec announced on December 30, 2016 that it started to supply cleaner oil products meeting Beijing VI standards for pollution ...
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Taiwan's legislature has amended the Electricity Act, ending nuclear power generation in the country by 2025 and liberalizing the local electricity market. Taiwan currently has three operational nuclear power plants. The amendments ...
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