Chinese companies are aiming to cut costs and enhance efficiencies as they become more familiar with shale gas development in the country, delegates at an unconventional gas conference said in Beijing this week. State-owned Sinopec has ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The surging shale energy output in recent years has been centering in North America, but it can also happen in other places like China, a U.S. energy expert said Friday. Shale gas will come to play a more important role in China's energy ...
Tags: Shale Gas, shale energy
The propane industry has set its sights on that symbol of American middle-class achievement: the lawn mower. Blame it in part on the natural-gas drilling boom, which has left distributors scrambling to find new ways to increase demand for ...
Tags: Lawn Mowers, Tools, Hardware, propane
On Friday, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) made affirmative preliminary injury determinations in the antidumping (AD) investigations of OCTG from India, Korea, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, ...
Tags: OCTG industry, Mineral
France-based pipe manufacturer Vallourec has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2013. According to Vallourec's report, in the second quarter this year the company registered a net profit of ...
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NAPA, Calif. -- To say integrating natural gas trucks into your fleet involves a lengthy learning curve is an understatement. Just ask Mike DelBovo, president of Saddle Creek Transportation, which is currently designing its fourth ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
French President Francois Hollande will not allow shale gas exploration during his presidency, he said on national television Sunday. France currently has a ban on shale gas exploration using hydraulic fracturing, the only current ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Gas Drilling
Chicago, Illinois-based Energex Tube, a division of JMC Steel Group, announced Tuesday that they have agreed to a deal with Tokyo, Japan-based Metal One Corporation, offering semi-premium connections for use in North American oil and gas ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, pipe, Construction
Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
On Tuesday, a number of US mills filed antidumping/countervailing duty against the majority of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) imports from the majority of supplying countries. Although a case has been generally expected for some time now, ...
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Bri-Chem, a leading North American wholesale distributor and manufacturer of oil and gas drilling fluids and steel pipe and piping products has successfully produced 36" seamless pipe, which is the North America's largest diameter seamless ...
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OMNOVA Solutions announced a new business group management structure within its Performance Chemicals segment with the objective of more effectively leveraging its extensive technology and product capabilities and global infrastructure for ...
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 ...
Tags: Canada, LNG Projects, Chemicals
US House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled two new bills aimed at opening more federal lands to oil and natural gas drilling and reforming federal lease sales. The Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act, (H.R. 1965), which was ...
Alberta-based Bri-Chem Corp. said Thursday that during Q1 2013, net earnings were $1.8 million compared to net earnings of $2.9 million for 2012, a decrease of 36.6 percent. Bri-Chem is wholesale distributor and manufacturer of oil and gas ...
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