On June 1, 2013, the University of Kaiserslautern (TU) established a new junior professorship "Process Development and Raw Material Change." Together with two other junior professorships, it belongs to the Chair of Thermodynamics under the ...
Tags: Textile, Raw Materials
The Asian toluene market led a price surge in most Asian aromatic products early Wednesday, driven by crude oil futures rising on geopolitical tensions in Syria. Front-month ICE Brent crude futures hit a six-month high Wednesday, with ...
The University of Kaiserslautern (TU) established a new junior professorship "Process Development and Raw Material Change." Together with two other junior professorships, it belongs to the Chair of Thermodynamics under the supervision of ...
Tags: Construction, Decorationc
China's fuel oil imports in July were flat from a year earlier, at 1.87 million mt, amid sustained weak demand for the fuel, detailed data released last week by the General Administration of Customs showed. The volumes refer to the fuel ...
The overall petroleum demand in the United States jumped in July to the highest level in three years, said a leading industry group in a report released Thursday. The total petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, rose 1.7 percent in ...
Tags: Petroleum Demand
The Unites States' plan to cut reliance on oil imports will not affect the oil production in the Gulf countries as Asia's demand for Middle East oil is rising, said a report released Monday by research firm Orient Planet. Recent major ...
Tags: Oil Production
One of the priorities of Iran's Oil Ministry is to restore the country's "lost" share in oil market, local media quoted Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar-Zanganeh as saying on Monday. Namdar-Zanganeh, who was endorsed as new oil minister ...
Tags: Oil Market, Energy
Net profit at China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) rose 7.9 percent in the first half of 2013, the company said Tuesday. Net profit hit 34.4 billion yuan (5.6 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half and sales revenue grew 15.8 ...
Tags: Offshore Oil, Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Domestic gold futures still have room to grow following the recent commodities rally, which sent gold, copper and crude oil to multi-month highs last week. The most traded gold contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) rose 1.45 ...
In the second of a series of three articles on the treatment of waters, oil and gas industry expert David Robinson discusses the treatment and discharge of produced and other waters from onshore oil and gas production. In the first part ...
Tags: Oil, Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China is expected to surpass the US as the world's largest oil importer by 2017, and the opposing trend of growing crude oil imports by China and falling imports by the US will affect inter-regional trade flows and the cost to both ...
Tags: oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Ravi Sethi of ProcurianRaw material costs as a percentage of plastic packaging costs have been on a steady rise due to the long-term appreciation in crude oil prices, a key ingredient for resins. Crude oil prices have increased five-fold ...
China's state-owned China National Chemical Corp., or ChemChina, is planning to set up an oil trading desk in Singapore in mid-September, a source at ChemChina said Wednesday. "Our Singapore trading desk will have around 10 people for ...
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that China's net oil imports will exceed those of the United States by October 2013 on a monthly basis and by 2014 on an annual basis, making China the largest importer of oil in the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China's net oil imports are very likely to exceed those of the US by October this year on a monthly basis and by 2014 on an annual basis, making China the largest net oil importer in the world, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) ...
Tags: Net Oil Importer, imported oil