The European Commission is seeking comments on whether the shareholding of Netherlands-based commodities trading group Trafigura in Belgium-based zinc and lead producer Nyrstar amounts to the company taking "de facto sole control" of ...
Crude oil shipments by Kirby's inland barge fleet continued to slide in the third quarter of 2015, as did the price that transporting those volumes can command, executives said during the company's Q3 earnings call Thursday. Kirby moved ...
The Indonesian government has invited bids for three shale gas blocks -- Blora, onshore Central and East Java; Batu Ampar in East Kalimantan; and Central Bangkanai, onshore Central and East Kalimantan -- according to a statement on the ...
Tags: shale gas Blocks, Blora, natural gas
Noble Energy's two long-awaited deepwater Gulf of Mexico fields came on stream ahead of schedule in late October and should reach peak in the next couple of weeks, the company's CEO said Monday. The Dantzler and Big Bend fields, in water ...
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According to the statistics of the General Administration of Customs, the total import and export value reached US$1.22254 trillion, with a decrease of 7.6% year on year, among which the export totaled US$690.16 billion, up 1.6% and the ...
LPG prices in south and east China's wholesale markets slid this week, despite stronger crude oil futures at the end of the week, due to a rise in domestic inventories, trade sources said Friday. Many refineries and LPG import terminals ...
Tags: LPG prices, crude oil
In the latest market study released by Transparency Market Research (TMR), titled “Marine Coatings Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 - 2020”, the global marine coatings market will ...
Tags: chemicals, coating, marine coating
The short-term outlook for biomaterials in coatings and related sectors in Europe has been looking grim in the wake of the fall in the oil price. However companies along the biomaterials value chain in the region are not overtly concerned. ...
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China's refinery throughput rose 4.3% year on year to 43.54 million mt or an average 10.30 million b/d in July, preliminary data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday. The July rate was down slightly from 10.59 million ...
Tags: Refinery, oil demand
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni have agreed on a pipeline route for crude oil export. In a communiqué issued at the end of a three-day visit by the Kenyan President to the neighbouring ...
Tags: Crude Oil, Oil Pipeline
Oil prices gained Monday as data showed China imported more crude in July. China imported 30.71 million tons of crude in July, up 29 percent on year to a record high, according to the data released Sunday by General Administration of ...
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Affected by a variety of factors, including fallout from the Greek debt crisis, slowing growth in China coupled with its recent stock market slump, steady displacement of Taiwanese suppliers by mainland Chinese counterparts, sagging ...
Leo W. Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers (USW), has testified before the US Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, reiterating his opposition to lifting the long-standing crude oil export ban, ...
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Driven in large part by the rapid expansion of shale oil and gas drilling and production in North America, the world market for oil field specialty chemicals at the service company level reached $25 billion in 2014, up from nearly $16 ...
Tags: chemicals, coating, paint pigment, shale oil
Global woes drag crude prices, as demand continues to decline in China Retail fuel prices will be lowered slightly from Wednesday to better reflect the global fall in crude prices and the glut in the market, the nation's top economic ...
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