Tesoro Corporation announced plans to produce petrochemical feedstock in its U.S. West Coast refining system. The Company intends to gather intermediate feedstock, primarily reformate, from its West Coast refining system for xylene ...
Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced that its Omani plant TMK Gulf International Pipe Industry (TMK GIPI) recently received an order for 18,400 mt of OCTG (threaded and coupled casing ...
Tags: TMK, Gulf International Pipe Industry, Order
There's an old saying in China that a word is worth a thousand pieces of gold, but one anti-corruption official's accusations involving the name change of a medicinal herb may prove it can cost much more. Lu Qun, deputy director of an ...
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Las Vegas Market announced continued growth of its better home décor resources with more than a dozen high-profile suppliers opening or expanding showrooms for the upcoming Summer Market, Sunday, July 27, to Thursday, July 31, 2014. ...
Tags: Home Decor, Las Vegas Market
Articulated figure of the green-wearing gaming icon will arrive in January 2015. S.H. Figuarts has revealed its upcoming Luigi action figure. Based on gaming's second favourite Italian plumber, ActionFigureFury reports that the ...
Tags: Toy
European styrene production margins, which appeared to be rising after an explosion June 3 during maintenance at Shell-BASF's Ellba joint venture in Moerdijk, the Netherlands, are falling again, Platts data shows. Styrene's premium over ...
Tags: Styrene, styrene production
A proposed free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea would remove the current 3% to 8% tariff that Canadian oil and gas producers have to pay for exports into that Asian nation, a Canadian government spokeswoman said Monday. ...
Tags: LNG Exports, Oil Exports
European ethylene hit a 2014 high of Eur1,015/mt ($1375/mt) FD NWE Friday, up Eur45/mt on the week, Platts data showed, on the back of reduced availability and an increase in feedstock prices. Naphtha hit a 2014 high of $959/mt CIF NWE ...
Tags: Ethylene, Ethylene prices
For its fiscal fourth-quarter (ended 27 April), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported its seventh consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth, to a record $306m (up ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
European ethylene spot prices jumped Thursday following a fire earlier in the week at Shell's Moerdijk site in the Netherlands, sources said Friday, adding that they expect olefin supply from the steam cracker at the site to be affected. ...
Tags: Ethylene, Prompt ethylene
The Asian price spread between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene widened by $7.50/mt to $250/mt early Thursday afternoon following an SM plant outage in Europe, but high stocks in China were expected to limit the widening of ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Northwest European spot styrene values rallied $45/mt or 3% Wednesday morning in reaction to the fire that broke out at Ellba's styrene monomer/propylene oxide plant at Moerdijk, the Netherlands. Styrene end-users and consumers stepped ...
Tags: spot styrene, specific material
The June US butadiene contract price settled down 2-3 cents/lb from May at a 65-76 cents/lb ($1,433-$1,675/mt) split, sources said Monday. TPC Group, Shell Chemicals and LyondellBasell each were 3 cents lower than May at 65 cents/lb, ...
Tags: Butadiene, Shell Chemicals
Argentine oil production fell 0.4% in March compared with the year-ago period, while natural gas output rose 0.5% over the same period, an industry report showed Friday. Crude production declined to an average of 533,651 b/d in March from ...
Tags: oil production, Oil Output
The Jurassic shales of southern England's Weald basin could hold between 2.2 billion and 8.5 billion barrels of oil resource but no gas, the UK government said Friday in a new report. The Department of Energy and Climate Change also ...
Tags: Shale Oil, offshore production