On July 8th, the list of 2013 Fortune Global 500 Companies was released. Baosteel was ranked No. 222 with operating revenue of 45,682.7million USD and net profits of 918.8million USD. It had been consecutively ten years that Baosteel was ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
South Korea's benzene exports to China tanked by 30,193 mt, or 82.8% month on month, to a 14-month low of 6,291 mt in June, crashing below the 10,000-mt support level, data released Monday by the Korea Customs Service showed. The sharp ...
Reform in Mexico has been talked about for many years, but substantial change that would likely involve some degree of constitutional amendment seems finally at hand, a Mexican energy legal expert said Thursday. With production dwindling ...
PetroChina has received Chinese and Australian federal government approval to acquire from ConocoPhillips a 29% stake, valued at around A$32 million ($29 million), in a shale gas joint venture in Western Australia's Southern Canning Basin, ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil
State-owned China National Petroleum Corp said Tuesday that it has commissioned China's first dedicated synthetic coal gas pipeline in western Xinjiang province. The 30 billion cubic meter/year Yining-Horgos pipeline passes through Yining ...
Tags: Gas Pipeline, Chemicals
National Business Climate Survey results showed that the business climate index (BCI) was 120.6 in the second quarter of 2013, decreased 5.0 points quarter-on-quarter, but still significantly higher than the critical value 100, and ...
Tags: Business Climate Index, 2013
In June 2013, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 1,882.7 billion yuan, up by 13.3 percent year-on-year (nominal growth rate. The real growth rate was 11.7 percent. The follows are nominal growth rates if there’s no ...
Tags: Total Retail Sales, Consumer Goods
From January to June, the private investment in fixed assets reached 11,558.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.4 percent in nominal terms, down by 0.4 percentage point over the first five months. The proportion of private ...
Tags: Private Investment, Fixed Assets
From January to June 2013, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 18,131.8 billion yuan, up by 20.1 percent year-on-year in nominal terms, the growth rate decreased 0.3 percentage point over that in the first ...
Tags: Investment, Fixed Assets
US-based supplier of plastic, glass and metal containers and closures Berlin Packaging has expanded its Dangerous Goods division in Houston, Texas. Occupying an area of 80,000ft2, customers in Gulf Coast states are provided considerable ...
Tags: Berlin Packaging, Printing
Many industries use modular tanks in order to handle hazardous substances that can harm the air, water, and land and the living things in them. The modular tanks collect the perilous substances, such as chemicals, excess oil, or nuclear ...
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has slashed its ex-works prices for butadiene by 16% effective late Monday, its second cut this month, end-users said Tuesday. With the latest reduction, Sinopec's subsidiaries in East, North ...
Tags: Sinopec, Butadiene Prices
The utilization of surplus naphtha capacity is a key driver of Indian petrochemical sector, according to a top official with the Indian Oil Corporation. The utilization of surplus naphtha and stranded propylene from refineries, as well as ...
Tags: Naphtha, Petrochemical Sector
The oil complex nudged slightly higher during light trading Tuesday. Those gains were led by NYMEX August RBOB, which settled 4.23 cents higher at $2.9260/gal. NYMEX August crude settled 39 cents higher at $103.53/barrel, while ICE August ...
Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food