University of Utah chemists discovered how vibrations in chemical bonds can be used to predict chemical reactions and thus design better catalysts to speed reactions that make medicines, industrial products and new materials. "The ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
France must urgently implement new rules to oblige shippers to import LNG after new gas capacity auctions indicated a massive increase in prices in France's southern PEG Sud market in the coming years, intensive users group UNIDEN said late ...
Tags: LNG Imports, gas capacity, LNG terminals
China's CNOOC International Ltd has started preparation work for oil and gas exploration in Iceland's offshore Dreki Area, an official with CNOOC's Investor Relations Department said Friday. This makes CNOOC the first Chinese upstream ...
With US refineries expanding their capacity to process more domestic light oil in the coming years, the US Energy Information Administration on Tuesday said it expects refinery crude inputs to reach 15.52 million b/d this year and 15.61 ...
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Cold winter conditions have hampered well-completion activity in the US, prompting the Energy Information Administration to revise downward its projections of US crude output for this year. The EIA, in its March Short-Term Energy Outlook, ...
Natural gas production is expected to increase in five of six significant US shale and unconventional plays in April compared with March levels, according to the US Energy Information Administration. The EIA's monthly drilling ...
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Russia-based pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has stated that up to August of the current year it will supply 50,000 mt of oil and gas pipeline pipes for application in the V. Filanovsky oil and gas deposit ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Pipes, steel pipe
Turkish steel pipe producer Borusan Mannesmann has told SteelOrbis that the company's US oil country tubular goods (OCTG) investment in Houston, Texas remains on track within the projected schedule, with the threading facility already being ...
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VDMA's Photonics Congress forecasts rapid growth of the sector in Germany and beyond. Industrialists and politicians mingled at Photonics Congress 2014 in Berlin. At last month’s Photonics Congress 2014, which was hosted in ...
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China and Tajikistan plan to start construction on the so-called D line on the Central Asia-China gas pipeline network this year, state-owned China National Petroleum Corp said Monday. This comes after both countries signed a deal to ...
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Spanish LNG throughput dropped 26.2% year on year in the week ending March 9 weighed by a drop to zero at the Sagunto terminal, data published Monday by Spanish gas grid operator Enagas showed. Combined throughput from Spain's six LNG ...
Tags: LNG throughput, national gas
The U.S. manufacturing sector is in the midst of a technology renaissance that has the potential to bring manufacturing work back to North America for years, according to Manufacturing Engineering's annual trends report released with its ...
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Big box warehouse retailer Costco's US parent company, Costco Wholesale Corporation, has reported its sales and earnings for the second quarter of its fiscal year (ending 31 August 2014) and for the half year to 16 February 2014. Net ...
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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered the splattered remains of comets colliding together around a nearby star; the researchers believe they are witnessing the total destruction ...
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Canada's leading light oil producer Penn West will invest C$900 million ($815 million) in 2014 on its assets in Western Canada, targeting an annual average output of 101,000-106,000 b/d of oil equivalent, CEO Dave Roberts said Friday. ...
Tags: Light Oil Producer, Mineral