China's natural gas industry will continue to grow at a high speed through 2025 with clean energy-driven power generation showing increasing importance, bringing opportunities to both foreign and domestic companies. As the economy grows ...
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China will raise electricity tariffs for power plants running on natural gas in at least eight provinces, the National Development and Reform Commission has announced. Prices of on-grid tariffs at gas-fired power plants will be raised in ...
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The trucking industry has had its flirtations with natural gas in the past, so why will the present surge in interest be any different than previous experiences in the 80s and 90s, when the alternative fuel was examined and then just as ...
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Hundreds of delegates from countries representing 90% of the global LNG trade returned to Tokyo this year to hash out the debate started years ago by the discovery of new North American and African gas supplies -- whether to move away from ...
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Central Appalachian thermal coal prices fell for a fourth consecutive session on Wednesday, pushing front-year calendar prices to multi-year lows. Both the CAPP barge physical and rail (CSX) swap contracts traded lower in a mid-afternoon ...
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Argentina's petrochemicals industry is unlikely to expand until more natural gas and related feedstock supplies become available when the potential of the country's shale gas plays is turned into production in a decade or so, an analyst ...
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Chinese state-owned PetroChina expects shale gas to ultimately account for about 20% of its total gas production and is now progressing plans to accelerate its domestic resources. Speaking at a press conference to discuss its interim ...
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The estimated weekly production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant jumped 1.98 cents, or 3.39%, this week to a 15-week high of 60.43 cents/gal, according to a Platts estimate based on a Friday review of data. This was ...
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In the second of a series of three articles on the treatment of waters, oil and gas industry expert David Robinson discusses the treatment and discharge of produced and other waters from onshore oil and gas production. First stage ...
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The recapture of power generation demand from coal and expectations for an early start to the US heating season could prompt a pre-winter rally for natural gas prices by October, BNP Paribas said Friday. Much of the year-to-date increase ...
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Ravi Sethi of ProcurianRaw material costs as a percentage of plastic packaging costs have been on a steady rise due to the long-term appreciation in crude oil prices, a key ingredient for resins. Crude oil prices have increased five-fold ...
The expected price hike in electricity rates is expected to hit the profitability, though very marginally, of those cement companies that solely rely on the national grid power and do not have Waste Heat (WH) technology, compared to those ...
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With more drivers turning to their smart phones for turn-by-turn directions, leading portable navigation device makers Garmin and Magellan are taking different routes in an effort to remain competitive. But our latest tests show that new ...
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Indonesia’s largest petrochemical firm PT Chandra Asri and German company Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH have signed an agreement to set up a methanol-based olefin production complex in Indonesian province of West Papua. ...
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Ukrainian privately owned utility DTEK has started importing natural gas from Europe into Ukraine and plans to import up to 100 million cubic meters of gas in July, the company said Thursday. DTEK Trading, the Switzerland-based trading ...
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