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Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Authorities say the barge that sank after hitting a bridge on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg po » http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Coast-Guard-No-danger-from-sunken-barge-4456211.php
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 State-owed electricity utility Eskom has again appealed for a domestic coal-pricing regime that is » http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/eskom-concerned-that-domestic-coal-prices-may-migrate-to-export-levels-2013-04-24
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 The nine geographic fields that make up the majority of Eagle Ford yielded 471,258 barrels of crude » http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/04/22/eagle-ford-oil-production-hits-record-high/
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Steel reinforcement-bar futures fell, extending the biggest weekly decline in two months, amid risi » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-22/china-rebar-falls-as-iron-ore-price-decline-steel-supply-rises.html
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Today's figures from the International Aluminium Institute (IAI) showed global output rising 4.5 pe » http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=OBR&date=20130422&id=16380078
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 China’s manufacturing is expanding at a slower pace this month on weakness in global and domestic d » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-23/china-s-manufacturing-growth-slows-as-economic-recovery-falters.html
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 About 30 barges broke free while being towed on Sunday and some struck a railroad bridge at Vicksbu » http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-04-22/mississippi-river-reopens-after-barges-hit-bridge
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 China's coal imports rose 13.3 percent in March from the month before, customs data showed on Monda » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/22/china-trade-coal-idUSL3N0D90DN20130422
Monday, April 22, 2013 Seventy-four percent of Americans surveyed said they support U.S. government approval of the TransC » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-22/americans-support-keystone-more-than-canadians-poll-says.html
Monday, April 22, 2013 Power-station coal at China’s biggest shipping port for the fuel fell to the lowest price in more t » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-22/china-coal-falls-to-lowest-price-in-three-years-stockpiles-drop.html
Monday, April 22, 2013 Germany's economy stabilised in the first quarter, after contracting late last year, the finance mi » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/21/germany-economy-idUSL5N0D80NS20130421
Monday, April 22, 2013 The U.K. economy probably narrowly avoided falling into an unprecedented triple-dip recession in th » http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-04-19/u-dot-k-dot-economy-seen-avoiding-triple-dip-recession-in-first-quarter
Monday, April 22, 2013 India's thermal coal production rose 3.3 percent to 508.32 million tonnes in 2012/13, while coking » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/22/india-coal-output-idUSL3N0D92RH20130422
Monday, April 22, 2013 Motiva Enterprises LLC (RDSA, RDSA.LN, RDSB, RDSB.LN) on Sunday said the same third-party provider » http://www.nasdaq.com/article/motiva-port-arthur-refinery-also-hit-by-regional-power-failure-20130414-00011#.UXVMQaLYjSg
Monday, April 22, 2013 Squeezed between shrinking exports to the United States, game-changing giant Middle East refineries » http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-3-172525-Mideast,-US-to-further-squeeze-European-refiners
Friday, April 19, 2013 Just days after the Alaska Legislature lowered taxes on the oil industry, ConocoPhillips announced » http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/04/18/conocophillips-to-increase-alaska-production/
Friday, April 19, 2013 China produced 2.124 million tonnes of crude steel each day over the first 10 days of April, an inc » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/18/china-steel-idUSB9N0D200320130418
Friday, April 19, 2013 A western Kentucky aluminum smelter has notified employees that it plans to shut down operations on » http://www.whas11.com/news/national/203403201.html
Friday, April 19, 2013 HollyFrontier Corp. (HFC) finished a turnaround today that included work on a crude unit, coker and » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-17/holly-el-dorado-said-to-finish-turnaround-on-crude-unit-coker.html
Friday, April 19, 2013 Russia‘s economy is probably not, as Ksenia Yudaeva, Russia’s representative to the Group of 20 nat » http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2013/04/17/russias-economy-is-rapidly-slowing-and-kremlins-options-are-limited/
Friday, April 19, 2013 "Coal is the main stay of our energy and would continue to play critical role for quite some time i » http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/indl-goods/svs/metals-mining/557-mt-of-coal-production-in-fy-201...
Friday, April 19, 2013 Italian cement producer Italcementi plans to stop production at three of its Italian cement plants » http://www.globalcement.com/news/item/1602-italcementi-halts-production-at-nine-cement-plants-in-italy
Friday, April 19, 2013 U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions have fallen dramatically in recent years, in large part because the c » http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324763404578430751849503848.html
Friday, April 19, 2013 Several refineries in Japan and South Korea will trim fuel output in May, on top of capacity alread » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/17/asia-refineries-idUSL3N0D44MZ20130417
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Saudi Arabia boosted crude exports in February to the highest level since June while it cut oil use » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-17/saudi-arabia-boosts-oil-exports-to-8-month-high-jodi-data-show.html
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Prices dropped as much as 2.2 percent after the Energy Information Administration said output climb » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-17/oil-falls-fourth-time-in-five-days-on-inventories-outlook.html
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Higher capital costs for new liquefied natural gas projects and government barriers may be holding » http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/04/16/high-capital-costs-slows-increase-of-additional-liquid-natural-gas-plants/
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Century Aluminum took the curious step Tuesday of warning employees of a possible shutdown of its 7 » http://www.courierpress.com/news/2013/apr/16/century-aluminum-warnsof-possible-smelter/
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 “Reliance has delivered another year of strong operating performance in an environment of continued » http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/ril-posts-32-jump-in-q4-profit-on-higher-refining-margin/article4623663.ece
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Output of cement in China reached 417Mt in the first quarter of 2013, a rise of 8.2% year-on-year a » http://petcokes.com/Lists/News/NewForm.aspx?RootFolder=%2FLists%2FNews&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fpetcokes%2Ecom%2FLists%2FNews%2...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 The Flint Hills Resources oil refinery in Rosemount has agreed to limit the growth of greenhouse ga » http://www.startribune.com/local/south/203318151.html
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Motiva Enterprises LLC's Port Arthur, Texas, refinery is in the early process of preparing units fo » http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/04/16/shell-motiva-port-arthur-refinery-restart-to-take-several-days/
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 North America has seen nothing short of a revolution in natural gas production over the last severa » http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/04/16/commentary-the-shale-gas-revolution-demands-change-on-export-policy/
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 The latest round of power contract talks continued yesterday between state-owned Meridian Energy an » http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8553514/No-movement-in-talks-over-Tiwai-Pt-smelter-power-price
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 China plans to publish a list of aluminium smelters that meet its environmental standards, with fir » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/12/china-aluminium-list-idUSL3N0CZ1KL20130412
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