Reignited concerns over the domestic benzene demand as well as a stubbornly closed arbitrage to the US saw European benzene prices plunge below $1,300/mt for the first time since mid-October, Platts data show. Benzene barges were assessed ...
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Repsol on Tuesday announced a $6.7 billion deal that will see Shell purchase a package of LNG assets from the Spanish firm. Repsol will sell Shell its interests in LNG facilities in Trinidad and Tobago, Peru and Spain as well as LNG ...
The UK’s leading trade association for oil and gas supplies and services on Thursday concluded its first mission to the Kurdistan Region. Dr Ashti Hawrami, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Minister of Natural Resources, met ...
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BP announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2012. Underlying replacement cost profit, adjusted for non-operating items and fair value accounting effects, was $4.0 billion for the fourth quarter, compared to ...
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Glanbia Nutritionals Ingredient Technologies is set to establish a cereal ingredient processing facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US. The new 40,000ft2 facility will produce MeadowPure Quality whole and milled flaxseed ingredients, ...
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SunOpta, a Canada-based organic, specialty and natural health products manufacturer, is set to add additional filling lines at its Allentown, Pennsylvania facility in the US, as part of its strategy to expand flexible re-sealable pouch ...
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Arla Foods Ingredients (AFI), a subsidiary of Swedo-Danish cooperative Arla Foods, is set to establish a lactose manufacturing facility in Denmark with an investment of EUR120m. The plant will be located next to Denmark Protein in Nr. ...
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Yashili International,a manufacturer of infant milk formula products in China,plans to establish a milk processing facility in New Zealand with an investment of CNY1.1bn($175m). Yashili New Zealand Dairy,a a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...
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The project is unprecedented by scale for Eastern Russia's gas industry it features extremely harsh geographic conditions and calls for advanced engineering solutions. Gas production in Yakutia will evolve as a unified complex with ...
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Comparisons are useful in evaluating a company, but in the rare earth market, it's not as simple as a spreadsheet. With so many variables in the mix, no two projects are exactly alike, and each has its relative strengths and weaknesses. But ...
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With so many moving variables in the rare earth space, how can investors evaluate investment opportunities? Siddharth Rajeev of Fundamental Research Corp. finds his top prospects by zeroing in on a specific material and tracking its growth ...
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The Critical Metals Report: John, a recent Brookings Institution report suggested that greater collaboration between U.S. and Chinese companies would alleviate tensions over tightening rare earth markets. Is the proposed merger between the ...
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Reuters reported that Kazakhmys Plc plans to boost copper cathode output to 500,000 tonnes in 2017 when two new large scale projects come onstream. Mr Oleg Novachuk CEO of Kazakhmys Plc said that the company's copper production is ...
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Reuters reported that China's production of refined copper rose in November to a record high for the second straight month as more domestic manufacturers turned to local smelters for supplies that traders said were cheaper than imports. ...
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Singapore-based Wilmar International is building two large wheat flour mills in Indonesia,as it seeks to take advantage of the increasing demand for bread,noodles and convenience foods in the country. The project is being implemented by ...