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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 European Union pollution laws are forcing the United Kingdom to shut down coal plants, The Telegrap » http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/19/coal-regulations-push-britain-near-crisis-energy-c/
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 Colombia's largest coal exporter Cerrejon has declared force majeure on at least some of its cargoe » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/19/coal-force-majeure-strike-idUSL6N0BJBLC20130219
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 You're paying more at the pump and prices are likely to continue to climb as we head into the summe » http://www.cnbc.com/id/100469805/Refinery_Closures_Send_Gas_Prices_to_Near_4Month_High
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Speaking an an investor conference on Wednesday, Blue Mountain Capital Management head Andrew Felds » http://investorplace.com/2013/02/steel-industry-to-suffer-as-chinas-iron-ore-appetite-slows/
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 The walkout at Cerrejon, which is equally owned by mining giants Xstrata PLC (XTA.LN), Anglo Americ » http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/02/18/colombia-coal-strike-enters-12th-day-after-weekend-talks-fail/
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Oil prices are acting as a brake on the global economy, and harming Europe in particular, the Inter » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-18/oil-prices-a-major-threat-to-europe-s-economy-iea-s-birol-says.html
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Following successful trial runs in November 2012 – January 2013, HeidelbergCement has officially co » http://www.worldcement.com/news/cement/articles/Cement_HeidelbergCement_commissions_clinker_cement_plants_India_28.aspx
Monday, February 18, 2013 Europe's recession deepened at the end of last year as its economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.6% » http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-europe-recession-economy-20130214,0,4677256.story
Monday, February 18, 2013 Three of the big multinational cement producers - HeidelbergCement, Cemex and Italcementi - have al » http://www.globalcement.com/news/item/1445-european-cement-production-in-2012-heidelbergcement-cemex-and-italcementi
Monday, February 18, 2013 U.S. power company American Electric Power Co Inc (AEP) said Friday it expects to spend $4 billion » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/utilities-aep-plants-idUSL1N0BF5V520130215
Monday, February 18, 2013 India has the potential to be the saviour of the global thermal coal market amid plentiful supply a » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/14/coal-india-imports-idUSL5N0BEEB120130214
Monday, February 18, 2013 Colombia, the world's fourth-largest coal exporter, produced 89.2 million tonnes of coal last year, » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/14/colombia-coal-idUSL1N0BEB3U20130214
Monday, February 18, 2013 The first two of six massive coke drums bound for El Segundo's Chevron oil refinery will reach Redo » http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_22604047/first-massive-coke-drums-bound-chevron-refinery-arrive
Monday, February 18, 2013 Planned maintenance at Motiva Enterprises LLC's Port Arthur, Texas refinery is scheduled to begin t » http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/02/15/planned-maintenance-to-begin-at-motiva-refinery/
Monday, February 18, 2013 Romania’s oil and gas group Rompetrol, majority owned by Kazakh company KazMunayGas, reached an agr » http://www.romania-insider.com/rompetrol-agrees-to-buy-back-part-of-romanian-states-shares-in-refinery-company-after-histo...
Monday, February 18, 2013 Tesoro Corp., one of California's biggest gasoline producers, has made an aggressive play to buy a » http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/California/News/2013/02_-_February/Analysis__Tesoro_s_California_refinery_deal_pr...
Thursday, February 14, 2013 The French economy shrank in the fourth quarter and revisions put it in recession earlier in the ye » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-14/french-gdp-shrinks-as-hollande-faces-job-cuts-recession-risk.html
Thursday, February 14, 2013 Germany's steel sector, which accounts for about a quarter of Europe's crude steel production, has » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/steel-germany-idUSL5N0BD3BI20130213
Thursday, February 14, 2013 Germany's economy shrank in the fourth quarter more than at any time since the height of the 2009 f » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/14/us-germany-gdp-idUSBRE91D0AY20130214
Thursday, February 14, 2013 Japan’s economy remained mired in recession late last year, shrinking 0.4 percent in annualized ter » http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/business/global/japanese-economy-contracts-and-remains-in-recession.html?_r=0
Thursday, February 14, 2013 Rio Tinto Group, the world’s second- largest mining company, swung to its first full-year loss in a » http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-02-14/rio-tinto-swings-to-full-year-loss-on-aluminum-coal-charges
Thursday, February 14, 2013 Latin America is expected to continue to experience a slump in refinery throughput as crude runs in » http://www.bnamericas.com/news/oilandgas/venezuela-colombia-to-hurt-latin-america-refinery-output-in-1q13
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Glencore International Plc, the world’s largest publicly traded commodities supplier, said 2012 coa » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-12/glencore-coal-output-doubles-after-south-african-mine-purchases.html
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Coal-fired power generation rose 8.9 percent last month above January 2012 on higher electricity de » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/12/genscape-coal-idUSL1N0BC48L20130212
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Consumers’ Co-Operative Refineries Ltd.’s coker at the Regina refinery in Saskatchewan, Canada, wil » http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-02-11/consumers-co-op-shuts-coker-at-saskatchewan-plant-after-fire
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Houston Refining LP (>> LyondellBasell Industries NV) on Feb. 1 said it is in the early stages of s » http://www.4-traders.com/WTI-SPOT-2355639/news/Refinery-Status-Tesoro-Restarts-Unit-at-Martinez-Refinery-16043002/
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has planned ”maintenance turnaround” of a crude distillation unit » http://www.livemint.com/Industry/9v7rea5ePafZQUurlfdUYM/RIL-to-revamp-Jamnagar-refinerys-crude-distillation-unit.html
Monday, February 11, 2013 Producers of coal have hiked prices of cargoes delivered into northwestern Europe in response to a » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/08/markets-coal-physical-idUSL5N0B8BV920130208
Monday, February 11, 2013 The Valero refinery complex in Port Arthur, Texas, occupies over six square miles of concrete, pipe » http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2013/02/10/20568186.html
Friday, February 8, 2013 Chinese coal imports will fall for the first time in five years in 2013, dropping 10 percent from t » http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C02%5C07%5Cstory_7-2-2013_pg5_23
Friday, February 8, 2013 Prices for coal delivered into northwestern Europe moved up slightly on Thursday as did near-term s » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/07/markets-coal-physical-idUSL5N0B7IDE20130207
Friday, February 8, 2013 China’s January coal imports rose 56 percent from a year ago, according to data released by the Bei » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-08/china-january-coal-imports-rise-56-from-year-ago-customs-says.html
Friday, February 8, 2013 Europe’s use of the fossil fuel spiked last year after a long decline, powered by a surge of cheap » http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe-consuming-more-coal/2013/02/07/ec21026a-6bfe-11e2-bd36-c0fe61a205f6_story.html
Friday, February 8, 2013 US crude prices tumbled Thursday after an extended US refinery outage revived concerns about a glut » http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130207/us-oil-dips-refinery-pipeline-outages
Thursday, February 7, 2013 According to the preliminary verification of China Cement Association, the cement industry added 12 » http://en.ce.cn/Insight/201302/07/t20130207_24104980.shtml
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