Toronto-listed miner Northland Resources has announced that it will start loading its first iron ore vessel on February 9 for further shipment to end customer and partner Tata Steel UK Limited. Northland's first shipment of 40,000 mt of ...
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Pakistan government has ratified the $1.5 billion Iran pipeline project, which will bring around 750,000 Mcf/day of gas to the energy-starved country by January 2015, an official from petroleum ministry said Thursday. The federal ...
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Chinese buyers needing coal promptly would have to pay higher prices currently due to supply constraints created by weather-related disruptions in both Indonesia and Australia, sources said Thursday. "People who have been caught short ...
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The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has proposed that the definition of coking coal should be changed to promote and encourage the iron and steel industry to shift their manufacturing base to new and ...
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A project to generate electricity from solar energy and wind in 15 remote Iraqi cities is now under way, according to a report from Al-Shorfa. Ministry of Electricity spokesman Musaab al-Mudarres told the news agency: “Iraqi ...
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China has said it will increase its 2015 solar goal by 67 percent, Bloomberg News reports. Government officials say the new target is an attempt to reduce greenhouse gases; the announcement comes as smog in Beijing reached hazardous ...
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Some China-based solar firms hope to terminate long-term polysilicon supply contracts with international firms. The latter noted that it is quite difficult to do so because when the firms signed the contracts, there were material shortages ...
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The solar industry believes market conditions will improve in 2013 because firms now have a consensus to stop price competition. In addition, firms that dumped products and disrupted prices now have lower inventory levels, hence the market ...
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According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in 2012 the country's iron and steel exports stood at $11.3 billion, while its exports ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in November 2012 Turkey's seamless pipe imports rose 68.3 percent compared to October and were more than double compared to November 2011, amounting to 25,428 ...
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Antonio Gozzi, president of the Italian iron and steel industry Federacciai, has stated that, according to the latest estimates, in 2013 Italian crude steel output may be similar to that of 2012, remaining at around 27 million metric tons, ...
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Minister for Mines and Energy Edison Lobao said Wednesday the proportion of ethanol added to gasoline would be increased from 20% to 25% on May 1. Speaking to reporters in Brasilia following a meeting with Finance Minister Guido ...
Israel's refined oil product demand rose by 19% in 2012 due to sharply higher consumption of gasoil and fuel oil in the country's electricity sector, the country's Energy and Water Ministry said Wednesday. The ministry's Fuel and Gas ...
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The European Commission said Tuesday it will require all EU biodiesel imports from Argentina and Indonesia to be registered, so that any future decision to apply import tariffs as a result of an ongoing anti-dumping case against those ...
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Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi [Elaibi] has issued a stern warning to the KRG over their attempts to export large quantities of crude oil to Turkey, describing it as “a red line“. “The Kurds are under obligation ...
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