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Friday, August 28, 2015 Century Aluminum to idle Kentucky smelter due to weak prices » Century Aluminum Co (NasdaqGS: CENX - news) , which is owned by Glencore PLC (Xetra: A1JAGV - news) , said on Tuesday it w...
Friday, August 28, 2015 Train partially derails near Cherry Point » The caboose of a train came partially off the tracks near Cherry Point on August 19. http://www.thenorthernlight...
Friday, August 28, 2015 Vedanta to halve output at Lanjigarh alumina refinery, cut jobs » India's Vedanta Ltd will halve output at its 1 million tonne-a-year alumina refinery in Odisha state in about two months a...
Friday, August 28, 2015 China's aluminium firm Chalco swings to profit in H1 on cost cuts » Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) on Thursday posted a first-half net profit of 27.6 million yuan ($4.31 million), helpe...
Friday, August 28, 2015 UPDATE 2-Wood River refinery shuts units after tower collapse; market unfazed » A cooling tower at Phillips 66 Wood River refinery in Illinois has collapsed, forcing the plant to shut one gasoline-makin...
Friday, August 28, 2015 Aluminium Bahrain seeks rating ahead of $3.5 bln project fundraising » Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), owner of one of the world's largest smelters of the lightweight metal, is seeking a credit ratin...
Friday, August 28, 2015 Northland power price hike likely in grid system change » An electricity analyst and consumer advocate says a new pricing system proposed for the national grid would slash the powe...
Friday, August 28, 2015 Platts: Commentary on U.S. EIA Oil Stocks Data » U.S. commercial crude oil stocks decreased 5.45 million barrels to 450.8 million barrels in the week that ended August 21,...
Friday, August 28, 2015 HollyFrontier Corp Tulsa Refinery Hit By Fire » On Sunday, HollyFrontier Corp.’s refinery in Tulsa, Oklahoma was hit by a fire. HollyFrontier’s in-house crew dealt with t...
Friday, August 28, 2015 Some Small But Welcome Relief For WTI » BP’s Whiting refinery, the largest refinery in the Midwest, made a quicker-than-expected return to action this week. ...
Friday, August 28, 2015 Hacktivists Work to Protect Chicago’s South Side » In another front on civic tech for public good, Chicago hacktivists are taking a stand for citizens’ health. htt...
Friday, August 28, 2015 Chicago has banned petcoke from being stored overnight » Southeast Side Chicago residents who live near a petcoke transfer facility can sign up online to get air quality text mess...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 New Website Allows Chicago Residents Near Petcoke Facilities to Sign Up for Text Message Air Quality » CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—August 20, 2015. The Chicago Coalition to Ban Petcoke is hosting a community meeting to set the record...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 How Long Will the US Dollar Influence Crude Oil Prices? » US crude oil prices have fallen almost 35% from the peak of $62 per barrel in May 2015. Over the same period, the US Dolla...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 Citigroup: Crude Oil Prices Might Hit $32 per Barrel » September WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil futures contracts broke below the key psychological mark of $42 per barr...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 US refinery outages add pressure on oil prices as worsening glut looms » Crude markets already in a downward spiral sank under the weight of a supply report showing increasing stockpiles of oil a...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 U.S. oil glut heads north as traders in Canada scramble for storage » The U.S. oil glut is about to repeat itself north of the border in Canada, raising prospects that the world's cheapest oil...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 India Expects Cash-Strapped Venezuela to Pay Dues in Oil » India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp. is in discussions to take $535 million worth of crude in lieu of cash for its share of s...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 California refinery may restart next month following February blast » Exxon Mobil Corp. could ramp up gasoline production as soon as late September at its Torrance, Calif. refinery, damaged in...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 $2 Gas Should Be Making a Comeback Soon » The current disconnect between low oil prices andrelatively expensive gas priceshas understandably been frustrating for Am...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 NZ may need another power station - Meridian » Scarcely a month ago, the Electricity Authority found scores of projects were on hold, even though most had received resou...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 Crude Oil Prices Fall More than 4% Due to Inventory Data » NYMEX-traded WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil futures contracts for September delivery fell by 4.27% and settled at...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 EIA Report Caused Collateral Damage in the Crude Oil Market » On August 29, 2015, the EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) released its weekly petroleum status report. ...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 Supply, Demand Equilibrium Further Away Than Ever Before » Yesterday’s 2.6 million barrel build to crude stocks from the US weekly inventory report has has sucker-punched oil prices...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 Exxon seeks to use old, less-clean equipment at crippled Torrance refinery » Exxon Mobil Corp. has asked air quality officials to allow it to increase refining operations at its Torrance facility — a...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 Foreign firms scramble to fix Iran's refineries once sanctions end » LONDON (Reuters) - International oil services companies are scrambling to win contracts worth tens of billions to repair a...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 Gas prices in Western Canada to drop but volatility still an issue: analyst » CALGARY -- Drivers in Western Canada should get some relief at the pumps in the coming days but an industry observer says...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 U.S. Commerce Dept. eases crude oil export ban » The Obama administration on Friday gave oil companies temporary permission to export a limited amount of oil to Mexico at...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 Exxon begins planned work at Baytown, Texas refinery » Exxon Mobil Corp on Monday said its 560,500-barrel-per-day (bpd) Baytown, Texas, refinery was currently undergoing planned...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 CANADA CRUDE-Outright WCS stuck near decade low as global crude slides » CALGARY, Alberta, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The outright price of Canadian heavy crude was mired close to its lowest in at least...
Monday, August 17, 2015 Birla Corp Buys Lafarge India Cement Units for $766 Million » Birla Corp. agreed to buy two cements units from Lafarge SA’s Indian arm for a total enterprise value of 50 billion rupees...
Monday, August 17, 2015 Saudi Arabia, Gulf Countries Struggling with Low Oil Prices » Too bad, they all are happening at the same time, hence the near six year low as Brent touched $48 a barrel and WTI went...
Monday, August 17, 2015 North Dakota Oil Production Holding Its Own » North Dakota is doing well as far as oil producing is concerned, despite the huge drop in the price of oil and predictions...
Monday, August 17, 2015 Administration approves oil exports to Mexico » The Obama administration approved limited sales of crude oil to Mexico, one of the most significant recent actions to allo...
Monday, August 17, 2015 US approves landmark crude oil export swaps with Mexico » The Obama administration will allow limited sales of U.S. crude toMexico for the first time, a senior administration offic...
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