In 2012, affected by the economic slowdown, shipping market slump, shipbuilding order contraction and other factors, the global marine diesel engine market shrank by 12.9% year on year to 67.27 million horsepower. In 2013, it's expected ...
The NYMEX August natural gas futures contract posted a preliminary settlement Wednesday of $3.629/MMBtu, down 4.8 cents, as the market lacked drivers to push it higher, sources said. The market is going through some choppy trade "in what ...
Tags: Market Drivers, Chemicals
Reform in Mexico has been talked about for many years, but substantial change that would likely involve some degree of constitutional amendment seems finally at hand, a Mexican energy legal expert said Thursday. With production dwindling ...
The Obama administration's ongoing delay in ruling on 20 pending applications to export liquefied natural gas is stalling US job creation and GDP growth, according to a new report from a conservative economic think tank. The report, ...
Tags: Chemicals, liquefied natural gas, gas, Energy
US refiner Valero Energy will build one of the world's largest methanol plants at its St. Charles, Louisiana, refinery, the company said Thursday. The $600 million-$700 million project will add a 1.6 million tons/year methanol plant at ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The NYMEX August natural gas futures contract was slightly higher in early trading as the market attempts to evaluate the current heat wave with longer-term forecasts which call for normal temperatures, sources said. As of 10:41 a.m. EDT ...
Tags: Chemicals, natural gas
According to Kenworth’s national sales manager for specialty markets, Andy Douglas, the third annual update on Kenworth’s natural gas progress has customers approaching the topic more proactively. Attitudes are changing from ...
Tags: Gas Offerings, Kenworth, Auto Parts
From January to June, the private investment in fixed assets reached 11,558.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.4 percent in nominal terms, down by 0.4 percentage point over the first five months. The proportion of private ...
Tags: Private Investment, Fixed Assets
From January to June 2013, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 18,131.8 billion yuan, up by 20.1 percent year-on-year in nominal terms, the growth rate decreased 0.3 percentage point over that in the first ...
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Air-driven gas boosters are machines that are used for the oil-free compression of industrial gases, oxygen, and air. On similar lines, a gas booster system is custom made assembly comprising a single or multiple gas boosters. It also ...
June exports from the three coal piers at Hampton Roads on the US East Coast declined for the month but are still tracking above last year's numbers on a year-to-date basis, according to figures released Wednesday by the Virginia Maritime ...
Tags: Coal Exports, Chemicals
According to a new market report "Petrochemicals Market by Product (Ethylene, Propylene, Butadiene, Benzene, Xylene, Toluene, Vinyls, Styrene and Methanol) -Global and China Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 ...
Tags: Petrochemical Market, Textile
In today's world, dirty windows might be the only thing that brings attention to paned glass. Yet back in the late 1800s, the business of making plate glass brought some much deserved interest — and an economic boost — to the ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
CALGARY, Alta. - May 28 may have been a significant date in Canadian trucking history. That was when Shell fired a major shot in what many think is a fuel revolution, unveiling to the public the first of its commercial LNG refuelling ...
Tags: Transportation
According to the Government of British Columbia, there will be an estimated one million job openings in the province over the next decade, with opportunities in liquefied natural gas, mining and mineral exploration, and shipbuilding. Of ...
Tags: economy