According to Statistics Canada, Canadian manufacturing sales edged up 0.4 percent to $50.9 billion in March, the sixth advance in seven months. The rise mostly reflected higher sales in the food, machinery, and plastics and rubber products ...
China is on a long-term track to become a net exporter of petroleum products to the Middle East, a senior official of state-controlled China National Petroleum Corp said Tuesday. "China could at some point become a net exporter of fuel ...
Tags: Oil-Product, Oil Refineries
Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO, President and CEO Katsumoto Ishibashi) has been awarded a contract to build a large gas chemical complex for State Concern “Turkmengas”, in collaboration with Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd., ...
Japan Petroleum Exploration plans to start drilling Japan's first horizontal shale exploration well at its onshore Fukumezawa oil field in Akita prefecture in the northwest for about one month from May 22, a company official said Tuesday. ...
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for April 2014, with both carload and intermodal volume increasing compared with April 2013. Intermodal traffic in April totaled 1,316,176 containers ...
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Weekly US coal carloads for the week ending May 3 continue to improve, notching their eight consecutive week of year-over-year growth, the Association of American Railroads reported Thursday. Coal carloads totaled 112,361, down 0.8% from ...
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GIA announced the release of a comprehensive global report on Defoamers markets. Global market for Defoamers is forecast to reach $3.9 billion by 2020, driven by resurgence in demand from end-use markets, and stringent environmental ...
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A majority of U.S. manufacturing executives expect their sales will grow a little more than 9 percent for the rest of 2014, according to the Institute of Supply Management’s semi-annual survey of purchasing and supply managers. Of ...
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The state of Oklahoma along with its agencies and the city of Dallas has placed an order for 321 units Ford F-150 pickups designed to run on compressed natural gas (CNG). The bi-fuel F-150 vehicles order will feature two storage tanks ...
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The US will set up its first strategic gasoline reserve, creating 1 million barrels of storage in the Northeast to protect against storms like Hurricane Sandy, which wreaked havoc on fuel supplies in the region, officials said Friday. But ...
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US biodiesel production fell to 70 million gallons in January, down 48% from December, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. Production was up 6.1% compared with January 2013. Of the 530 million lb of feedstock used ...
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India's natural gas demand is forecast to more than double to 516.97 million cubic meters/day in fiscal 2021-22, according to a report commissioned by an oil ministry regulatory body. Demand in fiscal 2016-17 is forecast at 378.06 million ...
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US crude stocks climbed 3 million barrels to 391.7 million barrels in the week that ended April 25, as inventories at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub rose, data Tuesday from the American Petroleum Institute showed. Analysts polled by ...
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Nigeria has emerged as the second-largest importer of US jet fuel and has also started bringing in atypical US kerosene barrels, according to data released Tuesday by the US Energy Information Administration. Nigeria imported 864,000 ...
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Following Transport and Logistics News' recent report on the TWU's concerns about road tankers (Defuse mobile bombs [dangerous tanker trucks]: TWU), our expert reader Nelson Mansfield has offered the following counter argument. Nelson ...
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