Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni have agreed on a pipeline route for crude oil export. In a communiqué issued at the end of a three-day visit by the Kenyan President to the neighbouring ...
Tags: Crude Oil, Oil Pipeline
HONOLULU – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement as part of a Federal District court order today with the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) and the Commonwealth of ...
Russia-based steel pipe producer ChTPZ Group has announced that it will supply 22,000 mt of large diameter (LD) pipes to the Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft for repair and operational needs. The pipes will be shipped before the end ...
Kazakhstan's natural monopoly regulator AREM has approved raising the crude oil export shipment tariff for national oil pipeline operator KazTransOil by 20% from the current level to Tenge 5,817.20 ($31.57)/mt per 1,000 km from April 1. ...
Tags: Crude Oil, Tariff, natural monopoly
Rimera Group, a services division of Russian steel pipe producer ChTPZ, has announced that in February this year it will supply 115 hot bends (100 mt) for the construction and upgrade of the main oil pipelines of subsidiaries of state-owned ...
Eastern Canada's Nova Scotia government is in favor of the proposed 1.1 million b/d Energy East crude oil pipeline terminating at a deep water port in the province, rather than in neighboring New Brunswick on the Atlantic coast, the ...
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Mullen Group announced this week its board has approved its 2014 capital budget of $100 million, about $25 million of which will be allocated to its trucking/logistics segment. The funds will be used to buy new trucks, trailers and ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Russia-based steel pipe producer ChTPZ Group has stated that in the first half of the current year it will supply 45,000 mt of large diameter (LD) pipes to the Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft for the construction of the main ...
A nationwide overhaul of oil pipelines launched after a fatal explosion in Qingdao, Shandong province, has found hazards in many areas that could lead to similar incidents, according to the country's top work safety watchdog. The overhaul ...
Tags: Oil, Oil Pipelines, Oil Pipelines Defects
Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX: PRE) (BVC: PREC) (BOVESPA: PREB) announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell its 5% interest and transportation rights in the Oleoducto Central S.A. ("OCENSA") oil pipeline in Colombia for a ...
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Welded steel compressive corrosion can occur only in a specific environment, it also has the following characteristics: firstly, the presence of only the stress (tensile stress in particular) is to stress corrosion cracking. This stress can ...
Tags: Weld Heat Treatment, Welded steel
Petrobras announces that oil production (oil plus natural gas liquids – NGL) from all of Petrobras' fields in Brazil averaged 1,960 thousand barrels per day (bpd) in October, remaining practically stable when compared to September ...
China's 23 state-owned refineries plan to operate at an average 75% of capacity in November, processing a total 16.42 million mt, or 4.01 million b/d, of crude, according to a Platts monthly survey. The survey this month covered 13 ...
Tags: refineries, Mineral
Shares of Sinopec, China's top refiner listed in both Shanghai and Hong Kong, opened to tumble on Monday following Friday's deadly oil pipeline blasts in east China's Shandong Province. A-share of Sinopec in Shanghai opened at 4.85 yuan ...
Tags: Sinopec, Oil Pipeline
The Asian paraxylene/naphtha spread slumped to 28-month low of $440.38/mt on Friday, down $14.62/mt from the previous day, with the regional PX market hit by rising supplies. The CFR Taiwan/China PX price benchmark inched down $0.50/mt ...
Tags: PX Supplies, PX-Naphtha