Oman’s Sohar Port and Freezone has entered into an agreement with Oman International Petrochemical Industry Company (OMPET) to build a manufacturing facility that will produce up to 1.5 million tonnes of eco-friendly packaging ...
Tags: Pet Manufacturing, Agriculture
China's crude oil imports rose 8% year on year to 25.41 million mt in November, or an average 6.21 million b/d, preliminary General Administration of Customs data released Monday, December 8, showed. The volume was also up 8.9% month on ...
Tags: Oil Product, Crude Oil
A new polypropylene plant will come up at IndianOil’s Paradip Refinery Project complex at Paradip in India’s eastern coastal state of Odisha. Foundation for the Rs 3150 crore polypropylene plant was laid by Minister of State ...
Tags: polypropylene plant, catalyst, Textile
A combination of low inventories and refinery maintenance could be spurring some Chinese state-owned companies to seek gasoil imports for the fourth quarter, sources said this week. Though market sources said that state-owned trader ...
Tags: Gasoil, sulfur gasoil, crude oil
The Canadian Trucking Alliance asked politicians on Parliament Hill, who are looking into the safe transportation of goods by road, to consider a universal electronic logging device (ELD) mandate among other things. Incidents involving ...
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Both imported and domestically produced LPG prices drifted lower in South and East China this week, mainly weighed down by the bearish market outlook, trade sources said Friday. Asian LPG prices slid to near 28-month lows Thursday, ...
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China's crude oil imports in September rose 7.4% year on year to 27.58 million mt or an average 6.74 million b/d, the second highest on record, preliminary data released Monday by the General Administration of Customs showed. Crude ...
Tags: Crude Oil, Oil Products
Platts’ analysis shows apparent oil demand in August was 41.19 million metric tons (mt), or an average 9.74 million barrels per day (b/d) — an increase of 3.7% year over year. This growth came despite a slew of bearish economic ...
Tags: Oil Demand
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Second Integrated Urban Air Toxics Report to Congress - the final of two reports required under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to inform Congress of progress in reducing public ...
Tags: EPA, Urban Air, Certification
Dampney Company, Inc. has introduced a new, ready to use heat-resistant white paint that is non-yellowing at elevated temperatures for a wide range of coating applications. Thurmalox 290-00 Heat Resistant White Paint features a ...
Tags: Dampney, white paint, Decoration
Tesoro Corporation announced plans to produce petrochemical feedstock in its U.S. West Coast refining system. The Company intends to gather intermediate feedstock, primarily reformate, from its West Coast refining system for xylene ...
With all its 19 units successfully passed the trial run, Sinochem Quanzhou 12 million MT/a refining project (hereinafter referred to as Sinochem Quanzhou refining project), invested solely by Sinochem Group, was officially rolled out on ...
LPG prices were mixed in East China this week, rising in Jiangsu province and falling in both Shanghai and Zhejiang province, trade sources in the regions said Friday. Propane-rich imported LPG was heard traded at Yuan 5,900-6,000/mt ...
Tags: LPG Prices, Refinery, LPG
China's apparent oil demand* in June turned directions from May and climbed 2.7% versus the same month a year ago to 41.94 million metric tons (mt) or an average 10.25 million barrels per day (b/d), according to a just-released Platts ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil
The Government of Iran has issued instructions to oil refineries and petrochemical units to not to reduce their feedstock supply to downstream petrochemical units, reports Shana. The order issued by Iran’s Minister of Petroleum ...