Solid State Supplies Ltd of Redditch, UK has announced a UK franchise distribution agreement with Luminus Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, which makes LEDs and solid-state light sources. "Solid State Supplies has a growing reputation and ...
With a mission to train the next generation of theatre artists in all disciplines, The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago had lighting design students illuminate St. Vincent de Paul Parish church in storytelling visuals and used ...
Tags: Elation, Lighting project
Brazil exported 46.9 million liters of ethanol to Europe in October, the most it had exported to the region on a monthly basis since October 2010, data from the Secretariat of Foreign Trade (SECEX) showed Monday. Of that total, 33.6 ...
Brazilian iron ore miner Samarco may be out of iron ore pellets within three weeks following a fatal tailings dam collapse last week, a source familiar with the company said Monday. An indefinite stoppage could affect global pellet ...
Tags: Samarco, iron ore miner, coals
Demand for imported crude, petroleum bitumen blend and straight-run fuel oil by independent teapot refineries in China's eastern Shandong province was relatively weak over this week, given narrowing refining margins on lower oil prices in ...
Tags: crude, petroleum bitumen, fuel oil
US benzene and toluene markets rose to two-month highs Tuesday to $2.35/gal ($703/mt) FOB US Gulf Coast and $2.25/gal ($684/mt) FOB USG, respectively. Sources attributed gains in both markets to stronger energy as NYMEX December crude ...
Asian propylene term contract discussions for 2016 are likely to conclude at larger discounts than this year due to an increase in supply in the region, market sources said this week. A source at a producer in South Korea estimated the ...
Tags: propylene, spot market
The water levels on the Rhine hit critically low levels this week, which threatened to send the cost of transporting and handling a range of oil and chemicals even higher after several months of rising costs. Freight and logistics costs ...
Tags: Rhine, transporting, Oil, Petchem
US ethylene contacts for October settled 0.25 cent/lb lower, with the month's net transaction price at 28.25 cents/lb, market sources said Wednesday. The decrease puts contract prices at their lowest level since the 27.75 cents/lb seen in ...
The strike by pilots and tugs in the Greek port of Piraeus was extended by another 48 hours Wednesday, which kept barge loadings from refineries suspended for the third consecutive day. "Until further notice, the strike continues today ...
Tags: high sulfur fuel oil, gasoil, refiner
Long Range 1 tanker rates are soaring in Europe as vessels are delayed due to high storage levels in Europe, and the busy naphtha arbitrage to the East is rapidly eating into the available tonnage. LR1 rates on the Northwest Europe to ...
Tags: LR1 Tanker, Naphtha, ships
Dry bulk shipowners are heading toward 2016 with the prospect of one fewer cargo option on the key loading region of the US Gulf Coast, as new environmental legislation introduced by Beijing this summer could mean China will no longer be ...
A local UK council has validated the application for a proposed IGas project to drill two exploratory wells in order to evaluate geology and assess potential shale gas recovery, IGas announced in a statement Friday. Nottinghamshire County ...
Line space on Colonial Pipeline's distillate Line 2 on Wednesday fell back to the lowest point seen this year on a tighter US Gulf Coast/Atlantic Coast spread for ultra low sulfur diesel. Platts assessed line space on the 1.16 million b/d ...
State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, (Adnoc) is seeking to cut 25% off its operating and capital spending, a senior official at the company was quoted as saying Thursday. "...we are trying to bring down operating expenditures and also ...