Norwegian crude oil production totaled 1.546 million b/d in February, up 6.8% from 1.448 million b/d in February 2013, according to preliminary figures released Thursday by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The latest figure is down ...
Tags: Oil Output, crude oil, NGL
Japanese companies are willing to invest in Iran’s petrochemical sector, Japanese Ambassador to Tehran Koji Haneda has said, FARS News Agency reported. During a tour of Ilam petrochemical complex in Western Iran, Mr. Haneda said ...
Tags: petrochemical, Chemicals, petroleum
As the United States continues to lead the world in the production of natural gas, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have devised a new and more efficient method with the potential to convert the ...
The US will sell 5 million barrels of sour crude from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of a test sale to evaluate its ability to distribute oil in the event of an emergency, the Department of Energy said Wednesday in a Notice of ...
Tags: Sour Crude, Department of Energy
Anchor Packaging, a US-based food packaging products provider, has added new Culinary Squares separate bases and lids to its Culinary Basics and Culinary Classics lines of polypropylene packages. Available in single and three-compartment ...
Tags: helps maximize performance, renewable mineral additives
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has slashed its ex-works butadiene prices in East and South China by Yuan 1,000/mt ($163/mt) to Yuan 8,500/mt Friday, a Sinopec company source confirmed Tuesday. "I think the main reason [for ...
Tags: butadiene, Sinopec, butadiene prices
With US refineries expanding their capacity to process more domestic light oil in the coming years, the US Energy Information Administration on Tuesday said it expects refinery crude inputs to reach 15.52 million b/d this year and 15.61 ...
Tags: US Refinery, Domestic Production, light oil
US commercial crude stocks are expected to have risen 2.3 million barrels for the week ended March 7, according to a Platts analysis and survey of oil analysts Monday. The American Petroleum Institute will release its weekly report at ...
Tags: Crude, commercial crude stocks
China and Tajikistan plan to start construction on the so-called D line on the Central Asia-China gas pipeline network this year, state-owned China National Petroleum Corp said Monday. This comes after both countries signed a deal to ...
Tags: Gas Pipeline, Mineral
Coal exports from Canada's Ridley Terminals totaled 752,123 mt in February, up 21.9% from January but down 14.4% from February 2013, according to data the Prince Rupert Port Authority released Friday. Year-to-date exports from the ...
The volume of crude from the northern Iraq region of Kurdistan being held in tanks at Turkey's Mediterranean oil hub of Ceyhan has reached 1 million barrels, Turkish energy minister Taner Yildiz told reporters Wednesday in a press ...
China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country's largest offshore oil and gas developer, has become the first Chinese firm licensed to look for oil in the Arctic, a landmark step for overseas energy exploration for the world's ...
Tags: Arctic Oil, Mineral
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the City of Bellflower, Calif. yesterday celebrated the grand opening of "Fronk's," a new restaurant built on a former gas station with help from $65,000 in funds from EPA's Brownfields and ...
Tags: Service, certification, EPA
Recent progress at shale gas projects operated by China's state-owned giants Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corp. suggest the country is on track to meet the 2015 production target set by the central government, analysts said Monday. ...
Tags: Shale Gas, PetroChina
According to a report released Monday by Statistics Canada, the Canadian Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI) rose 1.4 percent in January, after advancing 0.6 percent in December. This was the third consecutive increase and the largest ...
Tags: Raw Material, Industrial Material