The Asia to Europe arbitrage window for methanol will remain shut in the third quarter of 2014 on expectations of higher export volumes from the Middle East and stronger Chinese demand that would soak up Asian supplies, sources said late ...
Tags: Methanol, natural gas
NYMEX July natural gas futures settled largely unchanged Tuesday -- up 0.2 cent to $4.709/MMBtu -- as the market waited for data later this week that is likely to show a sixth straight triple-digit storage injection while near-term ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has cut its ex-works butadiene price across the country by Yuan 200/mt to Yuan 9,100/mt, sources close to the company said Thursday. On an import parity basis, the new price is calculated at ...
Spot prices of 75%-Si ferrosilicon in Asia this week remained supported by tighter supply and improved demand among some exporters in China. Platts assessed the Chinese spot price at $1,330-1,370/mt FOB China Thursday, slightly higher ...
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The Indonesian government reached a deal with lawmakers late Wednesday to revise down its targets for subsidized fuel consumption and crude production in its 2014 budget to make the figures more realistic, officials said. The measure cuts ...
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China Shenhua Energy, the listed subsidiary of the Shenhua Group, produced 25.2 million mt of commercial coal in May, down 5.6% from a year ago but up 4.1% from April, the company said late Tuesday. The company's coal sales stood at ...
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An international team of researchers has been exploring nanomembranes of beta-phase gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) as a channel material for high-voltage field-effect transistors (FETs) [Wan Sik Hwang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, ...
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The 2014/15 U.S. cotton projections show higher production and ending stocks compared to last month. Projected abandonment in the Southwest has been reduced due to recent favorable rainfall, resulting in a production increase of 500,000 ...
US over-the-counter thermal coal prices closed mostly lower on Thursday, despite the sharp jump in the broader energy complex, led by a 5.6% increase in the front-month natural gas futures price to $4.762/MMBtu. "Coal is marching to its ...
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Spot gas prices on the Dutch and German trading hubs extended Wednesday's gains Thursday morning, in line with the UK NBP where the day-ahead also moved higher from its previous close. At midday London time, the day-ahead contract on the ...
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Scrap market activity remained sluggish in eastern China over the week with prices mainly holding steady and unlikely to gain any upward momentum in the short term as the outlook for the finished steel market remains pessimistic, market ...
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Daily purchases from China's state reserve have fallen in recent weeks amidst market perceptions that reserve sale prices may be lowered, competition from foreign cotton, and the prospect of new-crop cotton offered below the current reserve ...
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In May this year, China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 1.4 percent year on year and was down 0.1 percent month on month, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on May 9. Meanwhile, in May ...
According to a report Monday from the Lake Carriers’ Association, iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes totaled 6.4 million tons in May, a virtual repeat of a year ago. The total would have been about 600,000 tons more, but three ...
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Turkey-based steel producer MMK Metalurji, a subsidiary of Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), has announced that hot dip galvanized steel sheet sales to the Turkish domestic market increased by 66 percent, while ...
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