Vancouver, Washington-based Northwest Pipe Company has announced that in the second quarter this year it reported a net profit of $3.2 million, decreasing 42.6 percent year on year. The company's sales revenues in the given quarter ...
Tags: Pipe, Vancouver, Metallurgy
Russia's Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat has launched a new pyrolisis furnace at its Monomer petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan, in the Urals region of Russia, and expects its ethylene and propylene output this year will increase by around 13%, ...
Tags: ethylene output, ethylene
The Government of India has set a target of modernizing 2.3 million powerlooms in the next few years, Textiles Minister K Sambasiva Rao said after inaugurating a powerloom modernization project at Sircilla in Karimnagar district of Andhra ...
Tags: Indian Govt, Powerlooms
BP announced today all of the major new units associated with the Whiting modernization project have been successfully brought on stream. The start-up of the new 102,000 barrel per day coker in mid-November marked the last major milestone ...
MRC Global Inc. (NYSE: MRC) announced today that BP Products North America, Inc. has awarded MRC Global a contract for maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) goods and services and the supply of carbon and stainless steel pipe, valves and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
International technology group Andritz has secured a contract from the Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso to deliver equipment for modernization of the company's fiberline. The new equipment will be deployed at Stora Enso's ...
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Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its software packages and services to help developers and IT managers modernize their applications so they will better fit into today's always connected environment. Enterprise software users now ...
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The food distribution network in the United States that supplies grocery stores, restaurants, and institutional facilities is among the most complex and precise of any mass market product category. Every step within the network has to be ...
Tags: VFDs, Cold Storage Energy
The recent narrowing in the Brent premium to NYMEX crude, which fell to a 17-month low of $7.48/b on Thursday, is set to continue into the third quarter, with $5/b a possibility, before widening again early next year, Goldman Sachs analysts ...
Tags: Brent/WTI, Brent premium
Voith has received an order for the refurbishment of a hydropower plant on the Rhine. The company will modernize several turbines in the Rheinkraftwerk Albbruck-Dogern at the German-Swiss border and supply three vertical Kaplan runners for ...
As southbound pipeline capacity is built and there's less demand in the Midwest, West Texas Intermediate will stabilize and trade at about $7/b under Light Louisiana Sweet, an industry expert said at an event Friday. Less demand for WTI, ...
Tags: Pipe Capacity, pipeline, Midwest
NYMEX January RBOB futures settled sharply higher Friday, leading the gains in the oil complex, as a weak fundamental picture took a back seat to a technical move higher. January RBOB settled 6 cents higher at $2.6621/gal after having ...
Tags: Chemicals, NYMEX RBOB, Technical Bounce, Crude Firms
NWI Times reported that BP is suing five companies associated with a fireproofing material used in its multibillion dollar modernization project at the Whiting Refinery, claiming the product is defective and causing property damage, federal ...
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Cargill, a US-based agribusiness company, has completed the modernization project of its Hales Point grain elevator with an investment of $25m, in time for this year's harvest. Cargill AgHorizons Mid-South Farm Service Group general ...
Tags: agribusiness company, modernization project, grain elevator