Sinotruk signed strategic agreement with Jinzhou Xiandai Logistics Committee in Jinan on April 22, 2014. Senior management of both sides witnessed the signing ceremony. And Sinotruk sales company general manager Zhang Xiaodong and deputy ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized an agreement with Andersen Air Force Base (AAFB) in Guam requiring the base to update its oil spill prevention plan and address other spill prevention deficiencies at the base to better ...
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State-owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has hiked its ex-works price for benzene in East China by Yuan 100/mt ($16.23/mt), or 1.16%, to Yuan 8,700/mt effective Thursday, an industry source said Friday. The company could ...
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Kazakhstan plans to build a major petrochemical complex by 2016 to produce higher-value products from associated petroleum gas that is currently mainly flared, according to an official at state-run KazMunaiGaz. The government aims to go ...
South Korea's third-largest refiner, S-Oil, sold a combined 639,000 b/d of oil products, petrochemicals and lube in the first quarter of this year, up 1.4% from 630,000 b/d a year ago, the company said in a statement Thursday. Sales in Q1 ...
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Weekly coal carloads increased substantially in both the US and Canada for the week ending April 19, compared to a year ago, as warmer weather and increased production sparked renewed efforts to restock utilities with low stockpiles. US ...
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Verdezyne, Inc., a privately-held industrial biotechnology company focused on producing renewable chemicals, announced that it has produced more than one metric ton of bio-based dodecanedioic acid (DDDA) using its proprietary yeast platform ...
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State-owned PetroChina has hiked its shale gas production target significantly and now expects to produce 2.6 billion cubic meters/year next year, a senior executive was reported as saying Monday. This is an increase from an earlier ...
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South Korea is working on a mid-term plan to explore oil and gas reserves off the country's coast as part of efforts to help reduce its heavy reliance on foreign crude imports, an energy ministry official said. "The government plans to ...
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Pakistan's federal cabinet has approved the construction of an LNG import terminal to be built in Karachi that would initially handle around 200,000 Mcf/d, an official of the ministry of petroleum said Friday. Elengy Terminal Pakistan ...
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Guangdong Province-based Chu Kong Petroleum and Natural Gas Steel Pipe Holdings Limited, China's largest manufacturer and exporter of longitudinal welded pipes, has announced that it has recently won tenders to supply a total of 55,000 mt ...
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US crude stocks jumped 10 million barrels last week -- the largest build in 13 years -- on a surge in imports and lower refinery run rates in the US Gulf Coast, data from the US Energy Information Administration showed Wednesday. The ...
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Seepage of residual oil previously leaked from PetroChina Lanzhou Petrochemical Co.'s 10.5 million mt/year (210,000 b/d) integrated refinery and petrochemical complex into the water source for water works was behind the unusually high ...
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Canada's total crude oil output is expected to reach 3.9 million b/d in 2015, some 500,000 b/d more than the current output, driven primarily by small in-situ oil sands developments, each typically 35,000-40,000 b/d, an industry official ...
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The prompt inter-month timespread for the FOB Singapore 92 RON swaps rose to an eight-month high last week, reflecting firming demand amid a tightening physical spot market ahead of the Asian refinery turnaround season. The May/June time ...