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Thursday, September 17, 2015 Essar Oil to shut Vadinar refinery for maintenance » Essar Oil will this week shut its 4,05,000 barrel-per-day Vadinar refinery in Gujarat for about four weeks to carry out ma...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Islands' territorial government sues Hess Corp. over alleged contractual violations, fraud » The U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday sued American oil company Hess Corp. for more than $1 billion, alleging that the firm ab...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Crude Oil Inventories Were Up in the Week Ended September 4 » According to data released on September 10, US crude oil inventories rose 0.6% in the week ended September 4 compared to t...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 WTI and Brent Crude Oil Prices Fell Last Week » The NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) near-month WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil futures prices fell 3.1% in th...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 US Virgin Islands Hovensa refinery to reopen as storage facility » The new buyer of the Hovensa refinery intends to scrap plans to operate the complex as a refinery, instead rebooting the t...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Attorney General Madigan Announces Settlement with KCBX for Petcoke Pollution Violations » September 15, 2015. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a settlement with KCBX Terminals Company (KCBX) for alle...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 South Korea aluminum: Falls $7.50/mt on week to $90-$100/mt on selloff » Platts assessed the South Korean primary aluminum premium spot market at $90-$100/mt plus LME cash, CIF Busan, Wednesday,...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 European oil refiners' good times are not over yet » A rare run of strong European refining profits will extend to the end of the year and beyond due to extensive plant mainte...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 CHS now sole owner of McPherson refinery » CHS, a leading energy, grains and foods company and the nation's leading farmer-owned cooperative, said it has completed i...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Health Effects to be considered for Rio Tinto Smelter Expansion » The Environmental Appeal Board has been ordered to take another look at Rio Tinto's plan to increase sulphur dioxide emiss...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 NALCO relents; will not shift smelter out of Odisha » After threatening to pull its proposed Rs 30, 000 crore project for setting up an aluminium smelter and a power plant at D...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Billionaire Agarwal to Shut `Unviable' Unit Amid Aluminum Slump » Vedanta Ltd., India’s biggest aluminum producer backed by billionaire Anil Agarwal, plans to close a unit as a slump in me...
Thursday, September 17, 2015 GrafTech agrees to be acquired by Brookfield in $695.3 million deal » GrafTech International Ltd. (NYSE: GTI), the maker of graphite electrodes and other carbon-based products that has faced s...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Century Announces the Curtailment of One Potline at Hawesville, KY Smelter » Century Aluminum of Kentucky, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Century Aluminum Company (NASDAQ: CENX), today announced the or...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Total limits Texas refinery operations after worker dies in bulldozer accident » Total is running operations at about 50% at its 225,500-bpd refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, after a fatal accident involvi...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Goa Carbon reports 16,353.400 MT of Calcined Petroleum Coke production for August » Goa Carbon has reported production of 16,353.400 MT (million tonnes) of Calcined Petroleum Coke for the month of August 20...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Orpic seeks consultant for petcoke storage project » By Conrad PrabhuMUSCAT: International engineering firms are lining up to bid for a contract to provide Project Management...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Yunlin’s proposed coke and coal ban is rejected by EPA » The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) yesterday rejected the Yunlin County Government’s move to ban the burnin...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Alba receives environmental permission for Line 6 » Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C ( Alba ), one of the world's leading aluminium smelters, is pleased to announce that it has been r...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Vedanta hopes to ramp up aluminium production after interim OERC order » BHUBANESHWAR: Even as it warns of a possible shutdown of its Kalahandi refinery in Odisha in the face of raw material issu...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 ConocoPhillips Takes Venezuela Refinery as ICC Award Enforced in US Court » "Because Venezuela had breached the contract by not supplying crude and not contributing further investment to the venture...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 UPDATE 11-Brent settles up 4 pct, riding equities rally; U.S. crude down » NEW YORK, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Brent crude settled up 4 percent on Tuesday as strength in stock markets helped the global oi...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 TECO bought for $10.4 billion » TAMPA — The parent of Tampa Electric Co. and Peoples Gas announced late Friday it has sold the Tampa-based utility to Emer...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Refineries begin maintenance as summer fuel demand winds down » Labor Day weekend marks the end of a busy summer for U.S. refineries, and the start of a heavier-than-usual scheduled main...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Oman's ORPIC plans Sohar refinery maintenance in March 2016 » SOHAR, Oman, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Co (ORPIC) plans a total shutdown for mainten...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Repsol Postpones Oil Refinery Work in Spain as Margins Climb » Repsol SA, Spain’s largest oil company, said it will postpone maintenance at its joint-biggest refinery, fueling speculati...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 European oil refiners' good times are not over yet » LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A rare run of strong European refining profits will extend to the end of the year and beyond du...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Global demand for cement to reach 5.2 billion t » World demand for cement is projected to rise 4.5% per year to 5.2 billion metric t in 2019. http://www.worldceme...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 U.S. judge upholds Conoco as sole owner of coker at Sweeny refinery » A federal court in New York has upheld a ruling granting U.S. oil and gas company ConocoPhillips sole ownership of a unit...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Crude Oil Prices Continue To Weaken » Crude oil continued to plunge this morning falling $1.31 in to trade at 44.74 following Monday’s fall. Brent oil actually...
Thursday, September 3, 2015 Nalco executives to visit Iran for talks on $2 billion smelter plan » Mumbai: India’s National Aluminium Co. Ltd (Nalco) executives plan to visit Iran this month for initial talks to build a $...
Thursday, September 3, 2015 Air quality agency abruptly postpones meeting on ExxonMobil Torrance refinery » Regional air quality regulators have canceled a Wednesday meeting to codetermine if ExxonMobil should be allowed to resume...
Thursday, September 3, 2015 Regulators postpone hearing on Exxon Mobil refinery in Torrance » Air-quality officials postponed consideration of Exxon Mobil's proposal to increase refining operations at its Torrance fa...
Thursday, September 3, 2015 Ramp up delayed for Exxon Mobil’s Torrance refinery » The potential ramp up of Exxon Mobil’s massive refinery in Torrance, California will be delayed after a state regulatory h...
Thursday, September 3, 2015 Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM)’s Torrance Refinery Ramp Up Gets Delayed » Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM)’s ramp up plan of its big refinery in Torrance in California will be delayed. http:...
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