The China Petroleum Pipeline (CPP) company is said to be close to winning a $650-million contract to build a pipeline linking the southern oilfields in Maysan province to the al-Fao [al Faw] storage depots. The chief of state-run Maysan ...
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In November 2012, iron ore production in Peru amounted to 539,103 long tons (547,753 mt), increasing 14.2 percent compared to the same month of the previous year and up strongly compared to 139,860 long tons (142,104 mt) recorded in October ...
In 2011, the United States became the world’s largest producer of natural gas, growing by 7.7% between 2010 and 2011. That represented the largest volumetric increase in the world, according to BP’s Statistical Review of World ...
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According to statistics released by Japan’s Ministry of Finance, Japan produced 214,081 tons of hot rolled (HR) stainless steel products in last November, decreasing by 10.8% from a month ago while rising by 1.7% year on year. In ...
China on Monday announced the results of its second shale gas bidding round, awarding the 19 blocks on offer to 16 domestic companies. The winners were announced at a press conference held by the Ministry of Land and Resources. ...
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Australia-based miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that it has awarded Australian contract mining and construction company Macmahon Holdings Ltd the mining services contract for the expansion of its Christmas Creek mine in the ...
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Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced that work has halted at its IndoMet coal project located in Indonesia after a contract worker was fatally injured in the construction area on Monday, January 21. The IndoMet coal project which ...
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BP said Monday it was too early to estimate when it could restart gas flows from its In Amenas fields in eastern Algeria two days after Algerian forces ended a bloody hostage crisis at the desert gas plant. "Production from the plant ...
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China's commercial crude oil stocks fell 3.6% at the end of December from a month earlier, according to China Petroleum Stockpile Statistics compiled by state news agency Xinhua and released on Monday. The fall in stocks was due to ...
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Spanish companies have invested billions of dollars in American solar energy since US President Barack Obama has been in office, The Huffington Post reports. Obama was sworn in for a second term yesterday, 20 January, and will give his ...
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A Canadian consortium of renewable energy developers including Solexica Energy Corporation, JCM Capital and Radical Energy has signed a 20-year concession agreement with CONELEC, Ecuador’s National Electricity Board, for the purchase ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in November 2012 Turkey's pig iron imports rose 25.3 percent compared to the previous month, after a month-on-month decrease of 31.3 percent in October, continuing ...
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Reportedly, India’s Bhushan Steel Ltd (BSL) has planned to set up electrical steel sheet plant with an annual production capacity of 350,000 tons at Meramandali, Dhenkanal, in the eastern state of Odisha. The beginning of ...
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Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has threatened to launch protests in the coming days, in view of the failure of Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) in addressing the gas loadshedding issue faced by textile producers in ...
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According to the data issued by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers, in the January-November period of the last year Ukrainian exports of steel pipes decreased by 3.2 percent year on year to 1.467 million mt, worth a total of $1.771 billion. In ...
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