Mark Birrell will succeed Sir Rod Eddington as the new chairman of Infrastructure Australia. Upon his term's expiry on 8 April 2014, Sir Rod has been side-shifted to the APEC Business Advisory Council at the request of the Prime Minister. ...
One of Europe's biggest manufacturers of high and low voltage distribution equipment has announced major expansion plans for 2014 After seeing business flourish over the past two years, British firm Bowers Electricals will not only ...
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Lighting controls firm Delmatic has opened a second office in London. The company said the new office would help it to handle the increasing number of designs and projects in the city and strengthen the company’s relationships with ...
Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) announced on December 23 that it has signed strategic cooperation agreement with China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), which is one of ...
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BP announced today all of the major new units associated with the Whiting modernization project have been successfully brought on stream. The start-up of the new 102,000 barrel per day coker in mid-November marked the last major milestone ...
Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has awarded WorleyParsons Kuwait a 5 year USD 400 million contract for the supply of programme management services. The contract serves to support KOC to achieve its objectives of reaching optimum capacity in its ...
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ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) today announced a 2014 capital expenditures budget of $16.7 billion for continuing operations. Investments during 2014 will target the company's diverse portfolio of global opportunities. Approximately 55 percent ...
Global oil and gas service company, AGR, has long had a presence throughout Africa and so will be building upon this at the 20th Africa Oil Week in Cape Town (25-29 November). The richness and diversity of hydrocarbon habitats, combined ...
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The Yukon, one of Canada's northern territories, hopes Chinese investors will invest in its rich but underdeveloped mining sector, a local official said. Murray Arsenault, the Yukon Territory's deputy economic development minister, told ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, zinc, copper, silver, tungsten, molybdenum
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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Shanxi Province-based Chinese steelmaker Taiyuan Iron and Steel Co. (TISCO) has announced that in the January-August period this year its overall investments in major projects in Shanxi amounted to RMB 7.822 billion ($1.28 billion), ...
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Fortum, DCNS and AW-Energy have signed an agreement to develop and demonstrate 1.5 MW WaveRoller power technology. Along with the support of La Région Bretagne, Fortum will be responsible for the project development and will be the ...
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In the presence of numerous prominent Russian politicians and businesspeople Messe Düsseldorf celebrated its 50-year presence on the Russian market yesterday (Wednesday). In 1963 it was the first foreign trade fair company to venture ...
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Utility pull drives US solar market to new high 10 Sep 2013 California leads installations and First Solar remains the largest module provider. First Solar modules Nearly a gigawatt of solar photovoltaic (PV) generating capacity was ...
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When a major company makes a huge investment in a new base in the UK, it needs the reassurance of quality components in its new operating base and reliability from the products it uses. Palm Papers – a German company with seven ...
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