Combined coal stocks at China's four major Bohai Sea ports stood at 17.54 million mt on Sunday, up 60,000 mt, or 0.3%, week on week, Qinhuangdao Port data released Monday showed. Coal stocks at Qinhuangdao Port dropped 5.7% week on week ...
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs on Monday cut its 2013 US natural gas price forecast to $3.75/MMBtu form $4.25/MMBtu, saying mild winter weather across the US has failed to put a serious dent in storage levels. The bank said higher levels ...
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Natural gas output in the US Lower 48 states rose 0.4%, or 320,000 Mcf/d in October compared with September, the US Energy Information Administration said Monday in its monthly gas gross production report. The report had been delayed by a ...
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US commercial crude stocks likely rebounded slightly last week, following a massive bout of end of year destocking over the prior week, according to a Platts survey of analysts conducted Monday. Analysts polled expect crude stocks to have ...
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According to data, the US imported 47,816 tons of cut-to-length plates in December, falling from 60,357 tons in November. Also, the country’s imports of cut-to-length plates in December touched the 2-year low. In fact, the US imports ...
It’s reported that the four major steelmakers in Indian announced to raise the prices of steel products by INR500~INR1,400/ton for January. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) announced to increase its steel product prices by INR500/ton. ...
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A group of 140 PhD scientists, working full-time on thorium power at the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear and Applied Physics, is getting close to creating a new generation of thorium reactors that produce much less toxic waste and don’t ...
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On January 8, 2013, Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, reported that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the European Union member states (EU-27) was 10.7 percent in November last year, stable compared to ...
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Shandong Province-based Chinese steelmaker Laiwu Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. (Laigang Group) has announced that in November 2012 it produced 797,000 mt of crude steel, down 2.8 percent month on month. In the given month, ...
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According to P. Sunderarajan writing in The Hindu, work on the world’s largest solar telescope is likely to commence in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir in India by the end of 2013. The telescope, with an aperture of 2 metres ...
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According to the 12th five-year plan period (2011-15) development objectives for the metallurgical industry in Chengdu in China’s Sichuan Province released by the Economic and Information Commission of Chengdu on January 6, seven ...
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According to the data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in November 2012 Turkey's monthly industrial production index increased by 11.3 percent year on year, following the 5.7 percent decline recorded in October 2012, ...
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China is responsible for more than 95%of the global supply of rare earths and over the weekend the country'sMinistry of Land and Resources(MLR),announced that the first production quota for rare earths this year will be set at 46,900 ...
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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that US raw steel production fell 3.9 percent in the week ending January 5, following a 0.7 percent decrease the previous week. Total raw steel production in the United States ...
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The European physical naphtha market and forward spreads have come under heavy pressure in recent days as weak LPG values have led some petrochemical end-users to turn their attentions to cracking propane, traders said Friday. Platts ...
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