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Friday, April 1, 2016 Odisha grounds Rs.2.53 lakh crore investment so far » As many as 46 industries who signed MoUs with theOdisha government have invested 2.53 lakh crore so far in the state, the...
Friday, April 1, 2016 China Could Increase Oil Imports by 600,000 Barrels a Day » Thanks to a growing crude oil refining sector and increasing its strategic supplies, China will continue to ramp up volume...
Friday, April 1, 2016 Turkmenistan eyes developing fuel and energy complex » Energy-rich Turkmenistan will continue to realize programs and projects envisaging further development, modernization and...
Friday, April 1, 2016 China car fever lifting gasoline use seen as root of diesel glut » China's love of cars and the gasoline that runs them is exacerbating an oversupply in another fuel decried by refiners acr...
Friday, April 1, 2016 News Analysis: China's industrial firms restoring strength, pressure remains » China's latest profit data reveals it is making progress in restoring and upgrading its industrial firms, but they have no...
Thursday, March 31, 2016 Exxon’s Imperial Oil Seeks Approval for New Canadian Oil-Sands Project » Exxon Mobil Corp.’s Canadian unit said Friday it has applied for regulatory approval of an oil-sands project that could st...
Thursday, March 31, 2016 TD warns the majority of Canadian oil producers are bleeding cash » Canadian oil producers are bleeding cash at current prices, according to a new report from TD Securities, but the crude ta...
Thursday, March 31, 2016 NALCO: If You Can’t Beat Middle Eastern Aluminum Smelters, Join ‘Em! » The state-owned aluminum producer is sending a team to Iran, Qatar and Oman to explore opportunities for setting up a gas-...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Norsk Hydro to Invest US$1.18MM to Establish Aluminium Innovation Center » Norsk Hydro has announced that it will donate up to US$1.18 million to create a five-year professorship at Trondheim’s Nor...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 By the Numbers, China’s Influence on the Aluminium Market is On the Wane » For the past several months, the People’s Republic of China has frustrated the global aluminium market, leading ex-China p...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 A way of optimism lifts metal prices » Base metal prices surged in February after the lowest start of the year since the global financial crisis in 2009, as a wa...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 South32 – new start in bad times » South32, a diversified recourse company, has had a difficult start since May 2015 after spinning off from its parent compa...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Alcoa Adds to Ex-China Capacity Cuts as Warrick Plant Ends Production » Aluminium manufacturing operations ceased at Alcoa’s plant in Newburgh, Indiana, on Thursday. The production shut-down at...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 European Commission: New Aluminium Technology Could Make Production Cleaner, More Efficient » Utilizing new technology now under development could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) production in the aluminium industry by t...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Rusal Announces Strong Earnings for FY 2015, Sees Strong Demand in 2016 » Russia’s UC Rusal announced its final numbers for the 2015 fiscal year on March 9th. http://aluminiuminsid...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 JPMorgan Quietly Sheds Aluminium Stockpile After Report » A few short days after a report emerged alleging JP Morgan Chase & Co. owned over half of the aluminium traded on the...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Vedanta Chief Says India to Experience a Tenfold Increase in Aluminium Consumption » Vedanta Resources plc Chairman Anil Agarwal indicated on Sunday that India’s consumption of aluminium will rise significan...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Cement output in India went up in Jan » Cement production in India went up to 25.88 million tonnes (mt) in January, 2016, an increase of 8.33 per cent compared to...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Tata Plan to Sell U.K. Unit Deepens Britain's Steel Crisis » Tata Steel Ltd., part of India’s biggest conglomerate, said a slump in global prices has forced it to consider selling its...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 PDVSA to receive U.S. crude cargo from PetroChina: traders » Venezuela's state-oil firm PDVSA has bought a 500,000-barrel cargo of U.S. crude from trading company PetroChina for deliv...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Chevron's Pascagoula Refinery preparing for maintenance turnaround » Several thousand contractors will be on site in March and April to perform maintenance at Chevron's Pascagoula Refinery.&n...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 ExxonMobil delays Torrance restart hearing: Update » California regulators will weigh restart plans for key regional gasoline equipment in early April approving a requested po...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Explosion, fire quickly under control at Carson’s Tesoro refinery » A fire broke out at the Tesoro Los Angeles Refinery in Carson at about 10 a.m. Monday but was quickly contained, according...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Saturday’s ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery air quality hearing postponed » The South Coast Air Quality Management District has postponed Saturday’s scheduled public hearing in Torrance at the reque...
Monday, March 28, 2016 With some 70 tankers waiting in ports, PDVSA says operations are normal » Despite the long line of vessels anchored in the Caribbean sea that can been seen front the road in front of the port of J...
Monday, March 28, 2016 LafargeHolcim Sees 2016 Demand Growing After Quarterly Loss » LafargeHolcim Ltd said market demand is expected to grow in 2016 even as a slowdown in some emerging economies like Brazil...
Monday, March 28, 2016 Non-Chinese aluminum output creeps up to four-year high: Andy Home » China still holds the key to balancing the global primary aluminum market. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-alu...
Monday, March 28, 2016 Pet Coke, even Tilt Formia is opposed to the toxic artificial coal » Tilt Formia joined, as communicated on numerous occasions and in multiple locations, the event was hosted by the City of S...
Monday, March 28, 2016 INDIA'S NALCO ZEROS IN ON OMAN, IRAN, QATAR FOR $2BN SMELTER UNIT » India's state-owned aluminium producer National Aluminium Co (Nalco) has zeroed in on three locations in the Arabian Gulf...
Monday, March 28, 2016 Valero's Aruba closure deepens Atlantic refinery woes » Valero Energy Corp said on Monday it will halt operations at its 235,000 barrel-per-day Aruba refinery by the end of March...
Monday, March 28, 2016 Aruba refinery to begin hiring workers in April for plant repairs, upgrades » The refinery in Aruba plans to start hiring workers in April to repair and upgrade the 235,000-bpd plant, while its propos...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 German cement demand reaches 26.6Mt in 2015 » German cement consumption reached approximately 26.6Mt in 2015, some 2.2 per cent less than the previous year, according t...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Meridian Energy and New Zealand Aluminium Smelters extend deadline for power notice period » Meridian Energy and New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Ltd (NZAS) have extended the deadline for the Tiwai Point smelter to gi...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Smelter gets extension on electricity decision » Southland's aluminium smelter has been given more time to make up its mind on how much electricity it buys for its plant a...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 China Hongqiao Group to Expand Capacity by Sixteen Percent This Year » China Hongqiao Group Ltd. announced that it would expand capacity to six million metric tons per annum, or sixteen percent...
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