Industrial Production Operation in September 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China In September 2013, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up by 10.2 percent year-on-year (the following ...
China's dominant refiner Sinopec, or China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, expects to spend Yuan 30 billion ($4.9 billion) annually over the next few years to upgrade its refineries to produce cleaner oil products, the company said Thursday. ...
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The overall petroleum demand in the United States rose in September in tandem with a gradually improving economy, said the American Petroleum Institute (API) in a report released Friday. The total petroleum deliveries, a measure of ...
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Taiwan's total crude imports in August plunged 22.8% year on year to an average 704,000 b/d due to lower refinery runs, according to data released Monday by Taiwan's Bureau of Energy at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. This was the ...
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Russia plans to transport 30 million tons of crude oil to China per year through the Skovorodino-Mohe pipeline from January 2018. Rosneft Oil, the biggest oil firm in Russia, said on October 11 that it had reached an agreement with ...
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Media reports of China surpassing the United States as the world's biggest oil importer as shown by data from a U.S. government agency were somewhat overrated, experts said. Recently published data by the U.S. Energy Information ...
On October 15, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (Oct. 7-13) the overall average finished steel price in China was unchanged week on week. In the given week, average prices of 0.5 mm non-grain-oriented ...
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Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), one of the four futures exchanges in mainland China, has announced that it will launch trading of iron ore futures on October 18. According to the DCE, trading will be for iron ore containing 62 percent ...
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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 ...
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China has set the 2014 crude oil import quota for non state-owned companies at 29.1 million mt (about 582,000 b/d), unchanged from this year, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday. Companies wishing to apply for crude import licenses ...
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U.S. crude-oil futures settled 1% lower Friday after the International Energy Agency warned that the U.S. fiscal crisis could harm demand and said supplies are rising faster than previously thought. Light, sweet crude oil for November ...
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Import quota of crude oil for non-state-owned operation will be 29.1 million tons in 2014, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
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China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced that during the week ending September 29 the average finished steel price in China declined by 0.3 percent week on week. In particular, in the given week average prices of 12 mm rebar, 80 ...
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Bitumen futures on China's Shanghai Futures Exchange opened up more than 3 percent on their trading debut Wednesday in brisk volumes, reflecting strong investor interest as the bourse lays the ground for the launch of a crude futures ...
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Among other inconveniences, Washington's shutdown could make it harder to keep track of what is going on in a place just over 1,000 miles away from it: Cushing, Okla. Cushing, where several major pipelines meet, is where oil futures are ...
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