The International Energy Agency remains largely in the dark over the real pace of China's surging oil demand despite long-running attempts to persuade the county to publish official data on consumption and oil stocks, the IEA's top energy ...
Tags: Oil Demand, Energy Security, Mineral
A second bomb blast has set fire to a pipeline carrying fuel oil from Beiji [Bayji, Baiji] refinery (pictured) to Nineveh province, reports Reuters on Wednesday. A similar attack on Saturday disabled the 16-inch pipeline, which is used to ...
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported Wednesday the January Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score was 54.2, up sharply from a mark of 51.2 in December. This score reflects a strong increase in demand for design services (any ...
Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced its financial results for the full year 2012. In 2012, New World Resources registered a net loss of €1 million, compared to a net profit of €130 million in ...
Tags: World Resources, miner, Resources
Houston, Texas- based National Oilwell Varco, Inc. and Robbins & Myers, Inc. jointly announced today that National Oilwell Varco's acquisition of Robbins & Myers is complete. Under the merger agreement for this transaction, Robbins & ...
Alacero, the Latin American Steel Association, has reported substantially improved steel consumption throughout Latin American countries in 2012, although steel production declined. Latin American crude steel production was 66 million ...
In December 2012, the Italian seasonally adjusted construction output index increased by 1.6 percent month on month, according to preliminary figures from Istat, Italy's national statistics office. The average index value for the December ...
Tags: Construction Output, Construction Output Index, construction sector
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in January this year the producer prices of industrial products in Germany rose by 0.8 percent compared to December last year and were up 1.7 percent compared to January 2012, ...
The European-delivered thermal coal market traded at its highest level in over two months Wednesday afternoon as sources said that the market is finally reacting to tightening supplies following the ongoing disruption in Colombian exports. ...
Tags: coal market, Metallurgy, Drummond coal
Gulf Keystone notes today’s update by MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc., the operator of the Akri-Bijeel Block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (in which Gulf Keystone has a 20 per cent working interest), on its extensive exploration and ...
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Iraq’s Cabinet has authorized the Oil Ministry “to sign an agreement of principles” on two key oil and natural gas pipeline projects, reports Platts. The agreement will be between the Iraqi Oil Ministry, the Iranian Oil ...
Tags: Cabinet, Iran-Syria Pipelines, Iraq
Undertaken in the spring of 2012 Grundfos North America has opened a new Water Conservation Project at its Fresno, California, manufacturing facility. This is one of the largest commercial water conservation projects ever undertaken by a ...
Tags: Grundfos, 2012, Water Conservation Project
According to statistics released by China’s customs, China exported 4.92 million tons of steel products in this January, rising by 60,000 tons from a month ago and jumping by 20.5% year on year. In January, the country’s ...
Tags: steel products, steel products export, steel
Reportedly, Chile's CAP Acero, the steel arm of the CAP group, announced to temporary shutdown its No. 1 blast furnace on Monday in order to replace its refractory lining. Meanwhile, the maintenance schedule will take at least 70 days ...
Turkish plantmaker CVS Makina has announced that it has signed a contract with Kosovo-based steel galvanizing plant Llamkos GalvaSteel Company for a turnkey plant to produce 210,000 mt per year of rebars. The new rebar plant will be ...
Tags: rebar plant, GalvaSteel, steel