In the first quarter of the current year, South Africa's seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.9 percent quarter on quarter, according to the detailed statistics released by Statistics South Africa. The country's ...
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A combination of new supply sources and rising costs at home could mean Australia's burgeoning LNG sector losing ground to new players, several speakers at an oil industry conference in Brisbane warned this week. On Sunday the chief ...
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The location and nature of the Scarborough natural gas field off Western Australia mean the project will be "very challenged from a cost point of view," Mark Nolan, ExxonMobil's vice president for Middle East and Australia, said Monday. ...
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The newly appointed managing director of Kuwait's Petrochemical Industry Company), which is at the center of a political crisis over a $2.2 billion compensation payment to Dow Chemical, has said that implementation of a number of planned ...
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Pakistan on Saturday withdrew a ban on the use of CNG in vehicles with engine capacity over 1,000 cc, less than a week after its caretaker prime minister issued the directive, an oil ministry official said Monday. The Ministry of ...
Kuwait's government has accepted the resignation of the country's oil minister, Hani Hussein, the official KUNA news agency reported Monday. Sheikh Mohammed Abdulla, minister of state for cabinet affairs and for municipal affairs, issued ...
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Petroleum futures were slightly bearish Monday, with ICE July Brent settling 2 cents lower at $102.62/barrel. Volumes were low and markets rangebound for the most part because of holidays on both sides of the Atlantic. Electronic trading ...
A long-standing dispute over the problems surrounding Kenya's sole refinery in Mombasa is escalating, triggering fears the country could lose clout as an investment magnet for neighboring countries. A financial crisis at the aging plant ...
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Artificial turf is a surface of synthetic fibers made to look like natural grass. It is most often used in arenas for sports that were originally or are normally played on grass. However, it is now being used on residential lawns and ...
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From January to April, the industrial profits of enterprises above designated size achieved 1,610.69 billion yuan, an increase of 11.4 percent over the same period last year, and down by 0.7 percentage point over the first three months. In ...
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Gasoline prices in Western Canada and the US Midwest have jumped due to supply issues surrounding the turnaround of Suncor's 135,000 b/d Edmonton, Alberta, refinery, industry sources said Thursday. "Suncor's move to secure gasoline and ...
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Horizon Oil has agreed to sell 40% of its assets in Papua New Guinea, which it hopes will underpin a mid-scale LNG project, to Japanese utility Osaka Gas for $204 million, the Australia-listed company said Thursday. The purchase price ...
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With 418 exhibitors from 23 countries and 12,470 visitors, the 9th AchemAsia closed its doors in Beijing. Exhibitors and hosts were very satisfied with the event. The organizers conclusion: The platform for Asia s process industry is firmly ...
Artificial turf is a surface of synthetic fibers made to look like natural grass. It is most often used in arenas for sports that were originally or are normally played on grass. However, it is now being used on residential lawns and ...
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To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
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