South Korea's crude oil imports fell 3.7% on year in November, marking the first decline in more than a year. The country imported 79.9 million barrels of crude oil in November, down from 83 million barrels a year earlier, preliminary ...
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Crude oil is flowing through the Kurdish-controlled Iraq-Turkey pipeline at 650,000-700,000 b/d and the line's pumping capacity will be lifted to 1 million b/d by 2016, the Kurdistan Regional Government's natural resources minister said ...
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The unveiling of final renewable fuel requirements for US refiners ignited a rally in gasoline futures Tuesday, helping support the rest of the oil complex. The front-month gasoline crack, basis ICE Brent, reached $13.61/b Tuesday, its ...
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The relationship between feedstock soybean oil and blendstock heating oil rose Tuesday to hit its highest level in more than two and a half years, as rising feedstock prices continued to bite. The "boho" factor, as the relationship is ...
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Leading biscuit brand Arnott’s has paid the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) $51,000 in penalties after five infringement notices were issued against the company in relation to a marketing claim for its Shapes ...
Indian mustard oil producer B L Agro Oils has installed a new PET bottling line from liquid packaging solutions provider Sidel at a purpose-built facility near its existing refinery unit in Parsakhera, Uttar Pradesh. The bottling line ...
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Clondalkin Flexible Packaging has backed an online petition by non-profit organization FoodWatch to take necessary steps to limit the migration of mineral oils into food products. The petition, which was launched last month in Europe, ...
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Arnott’s Biscuits has been fined $51,000 by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over false or misleading packaging. ACCC has slapped fines on Arnott's after the company falsely claimed that its Shapes Light ...
Luo Erchun. [Photo provided to China Daily] Six months after his first solo exhibition, Luo Erchun, a respected oil painter and professor with the Central Academy of Fine Arts, died in his Beijing home in late October. He was 85. Unlike ...
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An artwork by Fang Lijun. [Photo provided to China Daily] Contemporary artist Fang Lijun's solo exhibition in Beijing showcases his dozen ink sketches, which he paints to record instant thoughts and emotions when he travels and meets ...
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According to the monitoring of MOFCOM, the prices of farm produce in 36 large and medium-sized cities still picked up and the prices of production means in circulation continued falling last week (November 9–November 15). Last week, ...
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When Congress announced the US Renewable Fuel Standard a decade ago the aim was to combat the growing need for foreign oil as well as increase the production and promotion of clean, renewable biofuels. As 2016 approaches, and the ...
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China's ethanol imports in October fell from an all-time high in September, as inflows of fuel-grade denatured ethanol slid by nearly 70% even as the undenatured industrial grade posted an uptick in incoming volumes. Total imports in ...
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RED RME production margins in Northwest Europe remain in negative territory as the premium fell to a one-month low Monday, while feedstock prices in Europe remain strong on low availability. The differential between outright RME and ...
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Three VLCC fixtures to lift Forties crude from Hound Point, Scotland, in recent days could hit Aframax freight rates in the North Sea in coming weeks, shipbrokers said Friday. The Al Kout, the Front Page, and the Voyager I were all ...
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