Korea Petrochemical Industry Corp. (KPIC) is likely to start a new monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant. “The plant is in the launching stage and construction is yet to be started, but is likely to start commercial operations in the ...
Sustained weak demand from North Asian LNG end-users, reflected in the slump in spot prices, has shown little sign of recovering despite the start of the traditionally stronger summer season. Coming out of the April-May shoulder months, ...
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Pieridae Energy Canada, the developer of the Goldboro LNG project in Nova Scotia, has signed a 20-year sales agreement to start delivering 5 million mt/year to German utility E.ON in the first quarter of 2020, Pieridae said Monday. The ...
The Brazilian coil and sections producer, Companhia Siderúrgica de Suape (CSS), announced that it will start to construct the mill workshop late this year. The rolling mill will be built in the northeastern state of Pernambuco. ...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed in principle to the construction of a huge refinery and petrochemical complex by Thailand's PTT in the central Vietnamese province of Binh Dinh, a senior regional politician said Sunday. ...
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Hail Cement Company has announced that it has begun full commercial operations at its newly-developed cement plant yesterday. The company raised around $130m when its shares were floated on the stock exchange in 2011 through the sale of ...
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Two Japanese companies, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company and Mitsubishi Corporation are in the final stages of an agreement with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and local partner, Neal & Massy Holdings Limited, to start developing a ...
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Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Toshikazu Tanaka, President& CEO) announced commencement of commercial operations at the LOTTE MITSUI CHEMICALS, Inc. (Dong-Hee Yim, President) polypropylene catalyst plant in Yeosu, Korea on April 1. The plant is ...
Singapore LNG Corp and Malaysia's Petronas Gas are on schedule to begin commercial operations at their new terminals located in Jurong Island and Melaka, respectively, in the second quarter of this year, sources from both companies have ...
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The Chinese government has approved the establishment of China Railway Corporation, which will perform the commercial operations of the defunct Ministry of Railways (MOR). The new corporation will have a registered capital of RMB 1.036 ...
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China's Ministry of Railways (MOR) is to be dismantled, according to a report read by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the National People's Congress in Beijing on March 10. The original policy-making department of the Ministry of Railways ...
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Gov. Bobby Jindal, South Louisiana Methanol CEO Barry Williamson and Todd Corp. Group CEO Jon Young announced that South Louisiana Methanol LP will invest $1.3 billion in a new methanol production facility on the banks of the Mississippi ...
Alstom and NaturEner Energy Canada Inc. have entered into an agreement for the supply of up to 414 MW of wind turbines to be installed at NaturEner’s Wild Rose Projects in Alberta. The agreement includes 138 ECO 110 3.0 MW wind ...
Specialty biopharmaceutical company Santarus has announced the commercial launch of ulcerative colitis therapy, Uceris (budesonide) extended release tablets. Uceris that contains a locally acting glucocorticosteroid, budesonide, in a ...
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Genworth US Mortgage Insurance (USMI) has launched a new set of rules, Simply Underwrite (SM), which enables lenders to provide simplified and expanded national mortgage underwriting guidelines. Apart from offering one expanded national ...