Nigeria has emerged as the second-largest importer of US jet fuel and has also started bringing in atypical US kerosene barrels, according to data released Tuesday by the US Energy Information Administration. Nigeria imported 864,000 ...
Tags: Jet Fuel, jet trader
"We had a good start to the year in our chemicals business and in the Agricultural Solutions segment. We sold more. This more than compensated for the negative effects on sales from the comparatively weak U.S. dollar and currencies in ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Chemicals, Oil, Gas
Following Transport and Logistics News' recent report on the TWU's concerns about road tankers (Defuse mobile bombs [dangerous tanker trucks]: TWU), our expert reader Nelson Mansfield has offered the following counter argument. Nelson ...
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"Clariant had a promising start to the year with good volume growth and an increase in operating profitability," said CEO Hariolf Kottmann. "Overall, our businesses performed well in an improving but still mixed economic environment. The ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, economy
Hamthropology, dedicated to the preservation of the Ossabaw Island Pigs and their heritage, today announced the introduction of Registered Ossabaw Island Pork to the Georgia culinary market. Ossabaw Island pigs are critically-endangered ...
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The physical North Sea market is strengthening against the paper market, reaching a six-week high on Friday and bid higher Monday, as the return of some refineries from maintenance adds to crude demand, while less output than expected is ...
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The new NepTrim is a good butter replacement in baked goods Australian food ingredients research and development company Neptune Bio-Innovations has launched a 'zero fat replacement system' called NepTrim for use in food manufacturing. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
A national tribunal is to consider minimum safety standards for Australian petrol tankers, after nationwide research revealed 1 in 4 tanker drivers were pressured to speed and 1 in 2 drivers reported inadequate brake inspections. ...
UAE-based steel producer Emirates Steel Industries (ESI) has announced that it has launched its new steel sheet pile product, becoming the only steel manufacturer in the Middle East to develop and sell sheet piles. Emirates Steel plans to ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized an agreement with Andersen Air Force Base (AAFB) in Guam requiring the base to update its oil spill prevention plan and address other spill prevention deficiencies at the base to better ...
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The World Bank has called on Bangladesh to raise domestic natural gas prices after five years without an increase. "The administered price of domestically produced natural gas is fixed at a level considerably below that of the ...
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UK onshore explorer Egdon Resources said Friday it could have 18 Tcf of gas initially in place in shale gas reserves in its licenses within the Bowland-Hodder shale sequence in northern England. That is equivalent to around 510 billion ...
Tags: shale gas, UK gas consumption
Chevron says its new PitPack motor oil dispensing system helps technicians more efficiently store and deliver oil to vehicles. Chevron Products Co., manufacturer of Havoline brand engine oils, has introduced a motor oil dispensing system ...
US-based auto components supplier Modine Manufacturing is planning to shut down its manufacturing plant in McHenry, Illinois. The move, which would result in loss of about 135 full-time employees, is part of Modine's proactive plan to ...
Tags: Automotive Parts, auto components
Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced its production results for the first quarter of the current year. In the given quarter, TMK shipped 1.022 million mt of pipes to customers, down ...
Tags: oil, gas steel pipe