US olefins producer Westlake Chemical has shut its Petro-2 steam cracker in Lake Charles, Louisiana, while it carries out expansion work, the company said Thursday. The expansion of the 565,000 mt/year cracker will be carried out in ...
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The team at Nero Pipeline Connections, a provider of stainless steel fittings and accessories, are celebrating 25 years in business with a number of customer-focused changes throughout 2013. The Midlands based firm plans on marking a ...
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With thousands of visitors descending on London in 2012, some of the city's more aged infrastructure desperately needed upgrading. Blackfriars and Stratford Regional were among the railway stations chosen for major redevelopment. Pilkington ...
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Despite record low temperatures in China, the country's gas companies say they expect to be able to cope with increased winter gas demand in the coming weeks. Sinopec said Tuesday on its website that it had been implementing several ...
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Prompt prices hit near month highs Wednesday on the UK's NBP gas trading hub with forecasts of colder temperatures the key driver, market sources said. The within-day contract was valued at 67.60 pence/therm at 1200 GMT, up 3.30 p/th from ...
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SeaChange International will debut its latest subscriber experiences across iPads, smartphones, PCs and other devices at this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show January 8-11, Las Vegas. The new look and feel of the ...
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TransCanada Corporation announced Wednesday that it was selected by Progress Energy Canada Ltd. to design, build, own and operate the proposed $5 million Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project. This proposed pipeline will transport natural ...
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Intematix introduces its XR Series of red nitride phosphors for use in extending the color spectrum of LEDs.XR brings Intematix's total number of long wavelength phosphor offerings to six. Long wavelength phosphors play a central role in ...
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Cleanairtech Sudamérica SA has selected Abengoa to develop a desalinated water pipeline for the mining industry in the Copiapóvalley in northern Chile. The US$65 million project,which should be operational in December ...
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A spokesman for Iran’s Oil Ministry has confirmed that Iran is planning to build a pipeline to carry natural gas to Iraq and Syria. Alireza Nikzad Rahbar told Iran’s PressTV on Wednesday: “Based on agreements already ...
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Iran’s Oil Minister, Rostam Qasemi (pictured), says his country is expected to start exporting natural gas to Iraq by the end of the next Iranian year (to start March 21, 2013), reports the Iranian news agency PressTV. Last year, ...
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Norway's Statoil and its partners are going ahead with the development of the major Aasta Hansteen natural gas field project in the Norwegian Sea, as well as the planned Polarled pipeline linking it to shore, at a combined cost of NOK57 ...
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Revenues of CNY19.5 billion (US$3.1 billion) will be available to solar PV balance-of-systems suppliers in the Chinese solar market for 2013, according to NPD Solarbuzz. With a served addressable market of CNY5 billion by 2017, inverters ...
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Met-Pro Corp’s Environmental Air Solutions business unit has received a US$2.1 million order from a global manufacturer of consumer and industrial building products to supply a Bio-Reaction brand biological air pollution control ...
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs on Monday cut its 2013 US natural gas price forecast to $3.75/MMBtu form $4.25/MMBtu, saying mild winter weather across the US has failed to put a serious dent in storage levels. The bank said higher levels ...
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