The Association of American Railroads(AAR)reported Thursday declines in weekly rail traffic for the week ending January 5,2013,with US railroads originating 241,682 carloads,down 12.1 percent compared with the same week last year.Intermodal ...
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US rail transportation of petroleum products last week increased 53.6% year-on-year, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday. Petroleum products carloads increased to 11,594 in the most recent week, from 8,007 carloads in ...
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Crude oil production by Norway, the world's eighth largest exporter, is expected to fall 4% in 2013 to 1.47 million b/d, from 1.53 million b/d in 2012, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said on Friday. The NPD also said it expected gas ...
Despite record low temperatures in China, the country's gas companies say they expect to be able to cope with increased winter gas demand in the coming weeks. Sinopec said Tuesday on its website that it had been implementing several ...
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HandyTube broadens global reach at new Korean exhibition Friday,Jan 11,2013 Company's presence at inaugural Offshore Korea show underscores HandyTube's commitment to the international market HandyTube Corporation continues to solidify ...
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APTMA delegation led by Group Leader APTMA Gohar Ejaz and central Chairman APTMA Ahsan Bashir along with central Vice Chairman APTMA Wisal Monnoo and other office bearers including Mahmood Ihsan, Yasin Siddik and Asif Inam called on ...
The Iraqi cabinet has expelled Turkey’s state-owned Turkiye Petrolleri AO (TPAO) from the consortium that was granted the rights to explore energy block 9, and has asked Kuwait Energy to take over the shareholding. Abdul Mahdi Al ...
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Norway's Statoil and its partners are going ahead with the development of the major Aasta Hansteen natural gas field project in the Norwegian Sea, as well as the planned Polarled pipeline linking it to shore, at a combined cost of NOK57 ...
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US demand for liquid fuels will rise slowly over the next two years to 18.77 million b/d in 2014, driven by distillate and liquid petroleum gas consumption from a recovering industrial sector, the Energy Information Administration said ...
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Aramco Far East (Beijing) Business Services, or Aramco Asia, has started offering polyolefins produced by Fujian Refining and Petrochemical in China effective January 1, its parent Saudi Aramco said late Monday. Aramco Asia will ...
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Woodside Petroleum's Browse LNG project could end up being developed in a lower-cost environment after 2014, now that the joint venture partners are aligned for the first time, analysts at the Hong Kong office of Bernstein Research said in ...
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NYMEX crude futures tread water for most of the session Tuesday, settling nearly unchanged after news of improved investor confidence in Europe failed to spark buying. NYMEX February crude settled 4 cents lower at $93.15/barrel. On ...
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The first set of toluene and methanol methylation unit successfully completed its industrial test run at Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Company on December 27, 2012. The results proved the technology’s feasibility and the high ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA,which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic(PV)modules based on cadmium telluride(CdTe),has appointed Tim Rebhorn as senior vice president,Project Development.He reports to First Solar CEO Jim Hughes and will ...
Japan's largest refiner JX Nippon Oil & Energy has cut "slightly" its crude imports from Iran under a renewed annual contract beyond January 2013, company chairman Yasushi Kimura told Platts Monday. Speaking on the sidelines of a New Year ...
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