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Thursday, March 28, 2013 Oil produced on the Gulf Coast strengthened against domestic benchmark West Texas Intermediate afte » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-27/gulf-crudes-gain-as-padd-3-refinery-inputs-set-seasonal-high.html
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Gains in housing and manufacturing propelled the nation’s economy over the winter, according to rep » http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/business/economy/orders-for-durable-goods-jump.html?_r=0
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Spain's economy will sink deeper into recession this year, the Bank of Spain said on Tuesday, sendi » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/26/spain-economy-idUSL5N0CI1C020130326
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Bathinda refinery, the privately held refinery of Hindustan Petroleum and Lakshmi Mittal, is likely » http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_hpcl-mittal-go-slow-on-refinery-expansion_1815353
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Rio de Janeiro, Mar 26 (EFE).- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vowed that a refinery in the nort » http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/agencia-efe/130326/refinery-will-be-completed-brazils-president-says
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Eskom sells 9% of its electricity to BHP Billiton's two aluminium smelters at less than one-fifth o » http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-industrials/eskom-consumers-funding-bhps-power
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Appendix 1 shows that the current total average rate for electricity supply (including all energy, » http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-soapbox/analysis-of-eskoms-special-electricity-pricing-dea
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 HollyFrontier Corp. (HFC) began planned maintenance yesterday on a crude unit, coker and gofiner at » http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-03-25/holly-el-dorado-said-to-begin-turnaround-on-crude-unit-coker
Monday, March 25, 2013 The nation's two top steelmakers told a congressional hearing on the health of the industry that ex » http://triblive.com/business/headlines/3703788-74/gas-steel-natural#axzz2OZ8qh4Vg
Monday, March 25, 2013 Having smoothed over differences with two key creditors, aluminum smelter Ormet Corporation submitt » http://www.steelguru.com/metals_news/Bankrupt_aluminum_smelter_melts_opposition_to_USD_90_million_DIP/306653.html
Monday, March 25, 2013 In February 2013, China imported significantly less metallurgical coal of 5.4 million metric tonne, » http://marketrealist.com/2013/03/china-coking-coal-imports-fell-in-february-market-likely-priced-in/
Monday, March 25, 2013 "The ability to drill these long-reach horizontal wells into reservoirs we could never reach before » http://www.nbcnews.com/business/power-shift-energy-boom-dawning-america-1C8830306
Monday, March 25, 2013 The boom in new oil and natural gas flowing through U.S. pipelines is beginning to ripple through t » http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economywatch/energy-boom-begins-ripple-through-us-economy-1C8877092
Monday, March 25, 2013 Power-station coal stockpiles at China’s largest port for the fuel rose to the highest level in 32 » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-25/china-thermal-coal-supplies-rise-to-32-week-high-as-price-slides.html
Monday, March 25, 2013 "The world will burn around 1.2 billion more tons of coal per year by 2017 compared to today -- equ » http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57575611/coal-is-booming-just-not-in-the-u.s/
Monday, March 25, 2013 45 days of major turnaround scheduled in 2014; 70% of units involved. Remaining 30% will undergo ma » http://www.nasdaq.com/article/refinery-status-husky-expects-to-finish-lima--2--20130322-00394#.UVA_1RfYjSg
Friday, March 22, 2013 Geography has presented obstacles to generations of Chinese planners. From the ancient Grand Canal » http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-21/on-chinas-electricity-grid-east-needs-west-for-coal
Friday, March 22, 2013 The Guru Gobind Singh refinery at Bathinda was running successfully with production of 1,80,000 bar » http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Bathinda/Bathinda-refinery-running-successfully-HPCL/SP-Article1-1029830.aspx
Friday, March 22, 2013 The 500-MW power project using petcoke to be produced by the BPCL Kochi Refinery, after the complet » http://newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/article1511432.ece
Thursday, March 21, 2013 China’s manufacturing is expanding at a faster-than-forecast pace this month as production and orde » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-21/china-s-manufacturing-expands-at-faster-pace-survey-shows.html
Thursday, March 21, 2013 The Fed slightly lowered its economic growth forecast, saying it expects the economy to grow 2.3% t » http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/20/fed-march-meeting/2001355/
Thursday, March 21, 2013 The Rio-based company had declared force majeure on Feb. 15 after heavy rains in the African countr » http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/03/20/brazil-vale-partially-lifts-force-majeure-on-mozambique-coal/
Thursday, March 21, 2013 Japan became the first country to ever successfully extract natural gas from underwater deposits of » http://news.yahoo.com/japans-flammable-ice-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-energy-industry-162000154.html
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Global crude steel production rose 1.2 percent to 123 million tonnes in February, compared with the » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/20/steel-output-idUSL6N0CC8CB20130320
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Steel production in China is poised to decline after prices slumped for a fourth week, according to » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-19/chinese-steel-production-seen-poised-to-drop-as-prices-slump.html
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Making an investment in a cement market characterised in 2012 by job losses and carbon taxation tak » http://www.globalcement.com/news/item/1532-bold-moves-from-heidelbergcement
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 China saw cement output increase by 10.8% year-on-year to 237Mt in the first two months of 2013, ac » http://www.globalcement.com/news/item/1519-china-cement-news-round-up
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Los Angeles will become the biggest U.S. city to abandon coal-fueled electricity after the taxpayer » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-19/los-angeles-halts-using-electricity-from-coal-plants.html
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Hal Quinn, president of the National Mining Association, says coal in 2016 will again be the world’ » http://www.nasdaq.com/article/coal-is-the-fuel-of-the-past-and-the-future-cm228679#.UUomtRzkt8E
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 India hopes to commission three major railway lines in 2017 to move coal from existing and planned » http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/india-coal-rail-idINDEE92I0B820130319
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 A new oil refinery planned to refine Canadian oil sands crude sent to a Pacific port by Enbridge In » http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/canada-refinery-kitimat-idUKL1N0CB7AU20130319
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's coking coal imports totale » http://www.coalguru.com/other_asia/japan_coking_coal_imports_in_january_up_by_10_5_/8233
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 China's biggest refiner Sinopec Corp will process more Iranian crude at its second-largest plant in » http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/sinopec-refinery-iran-idUKL3N0C61WH20130319
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Crude oils on the spot market were little changed against the benchmark West Texas Intermediate as » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-18/spot-crudes-little-changed-as-refinery-units-start-after-work.html
Monday, March 18, 2013 China's Dalian Commodity Exchange will start official trading of the world's first coking coal futu » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/18/china-coal-futures-idUSB9N0B800D20130318
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