More than half of Asia's gas needs will be supplied by LNG by 2030, Santos Ltd CEO David Knox said Thursday, adding that this will provide the Australian LNG exporter opportunities to grow. Speaking from the Brisbane Mining Club, Knox ...
Tags: Gas, Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Global automotive supplier Magna International has agreed to supply all-wheel-drive (AWD) system for the new Mercedes-Benz GLA compact SUV as well as the A45 AMG and the CLA vehicles. The AWD system, which is known as ProActive Rear ...
Tags: AWD System, Mercedes-Benz Vehicles
Outbound shipments of Eagle Ford Shale crude and condensate through the Port of Corpus Christi rose to 445,615 b/d in April from 289,987 b/d in April 2013, the most recent data released by the port showed. April shipments also rose 3% ...
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China's state-owned Sinopec said Wednesday it has signed a pact with Kuwait Petroleum Co to enhance cooperation in the oil sector, including refining. Sinopec, or China Petrochemical Corp., said the deal was signed Tuesday in Beijing in ...
Tags: Oil, Refining, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Super Absorbent Polymers Industry Market Report 2014-2019" report to their offering. The global super absorbent polymer market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.5 percent ...
According to the data released by the Export and Import Division of South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MOTIE), the country's trade balance indicated a $5.35 billion surplus in May this year. Meanwhile, in the first five months ...
Tags: Steel Exports, cars exports
The relationship between feedstock soybean oil and blendstock heating oil that the biodiesel industry uses to gauge costs and margins rebounded Tuesday from hitting a three-month low Monday. The "boho" factor, as the relationship is also ...
Tags: heating oil, Biodiesel
Chia seeds may have potential in food product development Chia gel, created when chia seeds are placed in water, could have great potential in food product development as a thickener and emulsifier, as well as a stabiliser in frozen ...
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China's Nanjing University has produced silicon carbide (SiC) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with the lowest claimed dark count rate (DCR) at high temperatures of 150°C, compared with any other semiconductor material [Dong Zhou et al, ...
In the January-May period of this year, total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - decreased by 0.6 percent year on year, according to the State ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Railways
United States Steel Corporation announced Monday that it will indefinitely idle two tubular manufacturing facilities in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and Bellville, Texas, in early August, impacting approximately 260 employees as a result of ...
Tags: US Steel, Tubing Plants
South Sudan has received over $3.5 billion from the sale of crude oil between June 2013 and May 2014, the country's oil minister Stephen Dhieu Dau said in a statement made available to Platts in the capital Juba on Sunday. "As from June ...
Tags: crude oil, oil industry
US natural gas demand would increase 3.29 Bcf/d by 2020 as a result of the US Environmental Protection Agency's newly released plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. After 2020, gas demand ...
Tags: Natural Gas, gas prices
China will try to quicken the pace of economic reform this year as part of the government's efforts to arrest a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy, the country's top economic planning agency said late on Saturday. The National ...
Tags: Faster Reform, Slowing GDP
Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has signed a resolution related to financing of the proposed gas-chemical complex for manufacture of polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene in Balkan province. The complex would be built in ...
Tags: PP Plant, polypropylene