An international team of scientists has created a tool to precisely pinpoint where petroleum and gas reserves have accumulated beneath the earth. One of the team members is a Chinese geologist from the University of California-Davis. "The ...
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China's top securities regulator said on Friday that it has approved iron ore futures trading on the Dalian Commodity Exchange. The approval came one week after the relaunch of treasury-bond futures on the China Financial Futures Exchange ...
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Drummond Ltd., one of the largest coal producers in Colombia, partially restarted operations Saturday night after the government stepped in to resolve a strike that has stifled the country's coal exports. Edgar Munoz, a spokesman for the ...
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BEIJING-Signs of more appetite in China for steel and other materials and equipment used in construction add to evidence of an economic rebound, but one driven by a return to ramped-up spending on infrastructure and heavy industry the ...
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The preliminary design of China's third-generation nuclear power technology CAP1400 with an independent intellectual property right has passed the panel demonstration organized by the National Energy Administration and the demonstration ...
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The Ministry of Land and Resources announced on Thursday the maximum amount of rare earths for the exploration has been set at 93,800 metric tons for 2013. The cap for the exploration of ion-absorbed-type rare earth ores is set at 17,900 ...
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China's government pledged to cut overall coal use in eastern parts of the country and said it would reduce dependency on the fuel nationwide, as leaders struggle to respond to rising public concern over choking levels of pollution. The ...
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China is expected to become the world's third-largest natural gas producer in 2035, an official with the International Gas Union (IGU) said Thursday. Torstein Indreb, secretary general of IGU, made the remarks at the 2013 China ...
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Efforts by the government and industry to curb the oversupply of Chinese metallurgical coke were much discussed at the 11th China International Coking Technology and Coke Market Congress in Guangxi Wednesday. Chinese coke producers "must ...
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Recently, Baosteel Development Corporation along with Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences jointly established industrial environmental protection technology research and development center, which is an important cooperation ...
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Reportedly, German's ThyssenKrupp has planned to close its steel sheet plant at Neuwied in Germany in 2013 in order to restructure and improve its finance. Currently, the company has run under full capacity at its production site and some ...
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Uranium prices are at their lowest level in nearly eight years, as investors and utilities give up on a quick revival for nuclear power. The market for the radioactive fuel hasn't recovered from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that ...
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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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Relative strength in premiums for the sour Middle Eastern crude market seen in recent days showed continued upward momentum Wednesday, as Asian refiners look to cover winter requirements and Chinese buyers look to re-stock, trading sources ...
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The European Parliament voted Wednesday to limit the use of biofuels in the European Union, one of a series of potential changes to the bloc's climate-change policies that investors say are creating uncertainty and bottling up energy ...
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