Methanex Corporation agreed to sell an approximate 10% equity share in Egyptian Methanex Methanol Company S.A.E. (EMethanex) to Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP) for $110 million. The transaction will increase APICORP's ...
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Genomatica announced that additional companies have made sample parts that use BDO made with its bio-based process technology. In June, Lanxess announced that it had converted 20 tons of BDO made with Genomatica's process at their ...
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Governments have been tried to lower carbon emissions, but China and India overuse coal. As a result, coal consumption will surpass petroleum in 2020 and coal will become the key fuel, said Wood Mackenzie. In the World Energy Congress, ...
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Investment in Fixed Assets for January to September 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-10-21 08:16:16 From January to September 2013, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 30,920.8 billion yuan, ...
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Total Retail Sales of Consumer Goods in September 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-10-21 08:49:33 In September 2013, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 2,065.3 billion yuan, up by 13.3 percent year-on-year ...
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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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State-owned China National Petroleum Corp said Friday that the Hutubi natural gas storage facility in western Xinjiang has about 1 billion cubic meters of gas inventory, which will help alleviate peak winter demand in the area. The ...
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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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China's National Development and Reform Commission said Tuesday that it has been conducting a survey of domestic refineries to ensure they meet industrial standards and are adhering to fuel quality upgrades. The survey started in late ...
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NAHB is pleased by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear American Chemistry Council, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to challenge EPA's plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Because ...
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The Western Asian Arab country of Kuwait’s state owned petrochemical firm, Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) is expecting an annual 46 percent increase in its production capacity after the initiation of new strategic projects for ...
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 ...
General Motors will build a Chevrolet Impala sedan for retail and fleet customers that operates on either gasoline or compressed natural gas (CNG), GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson announced today. It is the only manufacturer-produced ...
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DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products Company LLC announced that the latest additions to Schülke & Mayr's sensiva line, sensiva PA 30 and sensiva PA 40, both feature the natural, preservative-boosting ingredient, Zemea propanediol. ...
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