State-owned China National Petroleum Corp said Wednesday it has started building the country's first dedicated shale gas pipeline in central Sichuan province. The pipeline will stretch 92.8 kilometers (58 miles), linking gas production ...
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Global thermal coal prices are unlikely to recover this year unless Australian coal producers lower production or an unexpected event rattles the seaborne market and sends prices north, industry experts attending the Coaltrans Asia ...
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The US saw its biggest ever yearly rise in oil production last year as its booming shale oil industry continues to transform the global oil market, BP said Wednesday. At the same time, global proven oil reserves continue to grow and are ...
The development of a grassroots LNG industry in western Canada's British Columbia will be a key factor in companies finalizing plans to invest in new petrochemical ventures in neighboring Alberta, industry officials and producers said late ...
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Heartened by a brief mention of liquefied natural gas exports by President Barack Obama, the new head of the US trade group for shale gas producers said Thursday he thought Obama should hasten a permitting process that has issued only two ...
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French oil and gas producer Total SA expects to launch more cooperations in the Chinese mainland. It launched Journey of Harmonious Energy, a national touring energy science exhibition, in Tianjin, a port city in north China, on May 22 ...
Tags: Cooperations, economy, Energy, oil, gas
Saudi Aramco boosted its crude production to a record 9.506 million b/d in 2012, excluding blended natural gas liquids, up 5% from 9.068 million b/d in 2011, the company said in its latest annual report. "During 2012 at Saudi Aramco, we ...
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The market for chemicals used to treat water and wastewater will rise to just under $30 billion per year over the next five years. This is the prediction just incorporated in the McIlvaine report Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: ...
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Iran's Petrochemical Commercial Co is expected to offer more LPG to Asia after selling a cargo to South Korea, possibly its first to this region in 2013 since an EU ban late last year, by using ships made available for CFR deliveries, ...
Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company of Dallas, Texas, and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan, announced that the two companies have signed an agreement to establish a 50:50 joint venture for the ...
Shale gas could play a role in the EU's future energy policy but only if the health and environmental risks are addressed and minimized, EU environment commissioner Janez Potocnik said Tuesday in a speech at the European Economic Congress ...
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Natural gas-supported plays such as the Haynesville, Fayetteville and Barnett bring a sufficient internal rate of return of around 20% at a gas price of $5/MMBtu, while the Marcellus has the same rate of return at $4, analysts with Platts ...
Tags: Shale Gas Drilling, Natural gas
The announcements this week by North American energy companies Marathon Oil and Talisman Energy that they are pulling out of shale gas exploration in Poland seems to have finally killed the government's initial hope that the former Soviet ...
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London-based technical nonwoven fabrics manufacturer Fiberweb Plc is to invest $15 million over two years to expand its facility in Old Hickory, Tenn. The expansion includes a 300,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center and will ...
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The global supply of ethylene and its derivatives is expected to remain in excess and “from 2014 the excess supply is likely to reach 5 million tons or more, due to the increases in excess supply in the Middle East as well as the ...
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