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Thursday, May 29, 2014 India Chennai Petroleum may shut refinery units for month in Q4-exec » India's Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd plans to shut an 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude unit and some secondary units for a...
Thursday, May 29, 2014 China Targets Heavy Industry, Vehicles, Coal for 2015 Carbon Cuts » China announced a plan to conserve energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions through the end of next year by targeting heavy...
Thursday, May 29, 2014 U.S. economy shrank at 1% annual pace in 1Q » The U.S. economy shrank in the first quarter for the first time in three years as businesses increased inventories more sl...
Thursday, May 29, 2014 China restarting idle aluminium capacity as prices rebound » Chinese aluminium smelters are restarting some idled capacity after prices of the metal rebounded from five-year lows hit...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 Suncor completes maintenance at Edmonton plant » Suncor Energy said planned maintenance at its Edmonton refinery, which started April 7, was finished on time and safely....
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 UC RUSAL and Rosneft sign partnership agreement » UC RUSAL and Rosneft, Russia’s leading petroleum company, announced the signing of a long term agreement for the supply of...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 China to scrap millions of cars in anti-pollution push » China plans to take more than five million ageing vehicles off the roads this year in a bid to improve air quality, w...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 India refiners processed 2.2 percent less crude in April vs yr ago - govt » Indian refiners processed 2.2 percent less oil in April than a year earlier at 4.29 million barrels per day (bpd), accord...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 Russian April refinery runs down 6.1 pct daily vs March » The following are figures for Russian refinery runs and gasoline, gasoil, fuel oil and jet output in April, provided by R...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 Russia's refinery runs down 6.1 pct in April from March » Russian oil refinery runs in April fell month-on-month by 6.1 percent, or 355,496 barrels per day (bpd), data from the Ene...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 EU and China drive global steel output rise in April - Worldsteel » Global crude steel output rose at its second-fastest level this year in April, responding to an uptick in demand...
Thursday, May 22, 2014 European refinery output rises 4.5 pct in April -Euroilstock » European refinery output rose 4.5 percent in April from March, data from industr monitor Euroilstock showed on Wednesday,...
Thursday, May 22, 2014 The Keystone XL Pipeline Gets Some Canadian Competition » Canadian regulators are currently considering four major pipeline projects: Two of them would move the crude to the west c...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 San Francisco considers banning exports of coal and petcoke » At a hearing scheduled for Thursday, the San Francisco Environment Commission will consider a proposal to ban the bulk tra...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Permit denied for storage company to put petcoke back on Detroit River » An application to store petroleum coke on the Detroit River across from Brighton Beach has been denied by the Michigan Dep...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 European spot aluminium premiums rise to record $400/T » Costs, or premiums, to obtain physical aluminium in Europe's spot market rose to record highs this week as tight supply pr...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Cement manufacturers demand reduced duty on alternative fuel » Duty on alternative fuel like petroleum coke and shredded rubber tyres should be reduced to give support to the&...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Russia signs 30-year contract to supply natural gas to China » Russia has signed a long-term deal to supply natural gas to China. The agreement comes after more than a decade of negotia...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 Refining,Fuel-Grade Petcoke Markets, and Natural Gas sections of April 2014 PCQ are ready for downlo » Refining, Fuel-Grade Petcoke Markets, and Natural Gas sections of April 2014 PCQ are ready for download.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 Prices continue to slide on weak demand » European physical coal prices continued to descend on Monday as warm weather across Europe sapped energy demand. http://...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 Shell Considers Permanent Coker Shutdown Amid Shale-Oil Boom » Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s biggest oil company, is considering retiring one of two coking units at its only re...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 Shell plans to shut California refinery coking unit -company » Royal Dutch Shell Plc (Xetra:R6C1.DE - news) has asked California pollution regulators to approve a plan to shut...
Monday, May 19, 2014 Coal section of April 2014 PCQ is ready for download. » Coal section of April 2014 PCQ is ready for download.
Monday, May 19, 2014 Mexico's Cemex taps insiders for new CEO, Chairman roles » Mexico's Cemex , one of the world's leading cement makers, on Thursday promoted Chief Financial Officer Fernando...
Monday, May 19, 2014 Colombia first-quarter coal production up one-third on yr -gov't » First-quarter coal production in Colombia, the world's fourth-biggest coal exporter, jumped one-third to 24.5 mi...
Monday, May 19, 2014 EURO COAL-Prices dip on low summer demand outlook, cheaper gas » European physical coal prices dipped on Friday as warm weather across Europe pulled down energy demand, and cheaper gas fo...
Sunday, May 18, 2014 (0 Comments - view/add) Data Files Downloads in Excel Format for April 2014 are ready to download. » Data Files Downloads in Excel Format for April 2014 are ready to download.
Sunday, May 18, 2014 World Steel and Transportation sections of April 2014 PCQ are ready for download. » World Steel and Transportation sections of April 2014 PCQ are ready for download.
Friday, May 16, 2014 Shale boom sends U.S. crude production to 28-year high » U.S. crude production climbed to a 28-year high last week as the shale boom moved the world’s biggest oil-consuming countr...
Friday, May 16, 2014 IEA sees higher demand for OPEC crude this year » Demand for OPEC’s crude will be higher in the second half of the year than previously estimated as inventories in develope...
Friday, May 16, 2014 Commerce official: US output booms while federal lands wilt » The United States will need to produce as much oil and gas as it can muster to prepare for massive global demand growth ov...
Friday, May 16, 2014 Saudi gas reserves up as Aramco taps new shale deposits » Saudi Arabia’s natural gas reserves rose last year as it explored for the fuel in the Red Sea and tapped shale gas to free...
Friday, May 16, 2014 India'S BPCL signs crude import deals with UAE, Kuwait » Indian refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp has signed a deal with ADNOC, national oil company of the United Arab Emirates, to im...
Thursday, May 15, 2014 Eurozone Recovery Flounders, Inflation Danger Climbs » With fresh data revealing dangerously low inflation continuing to hound the embattled eurozone, the region’s statistics of...
Thursday, May 15, 2014 China produces and consumes almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined » Chinese production and consumption of coal increased for the 13th consecutive year in 2012. China is by far the world's la...
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