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Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Century Aluminum still in talks to re-open Ravenswood, WV plant » Century Aluminum says it is still in talks with Appalachian Power to obtain a rate structure that would allow it to re-ope...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Monthly Aluminum Price Index Rises as China Ends Export Taxes » MetalMiner’s aluminum price index, the monthly Aluminum MMI®, registered a value of 90 in May, a significant increase of 2...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Romanian aluminum producer cuts energy consumption by a quarter » Romanian aluminum producer Alro Slatina reduced energy consumption by a quarter during the crisis years. This was due to t...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Refinery ramps up: Dakota Prairie Refining begins producing fuel from Bakken crude oil » Dave Podratz, still wearing his hard hat, safety glasses and coveralls, walked into a conference room at Dakota Prairie Re...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Bakken crude refinery begins production » The Dakota Prairie Refinery located in Dickinson, North Dakota, has commenced operations. The facility has started produci...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Petrobras says falling Brazil fuel demand reduced crude refining » Falling demand for fuel in Brazil led state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA to cut crude oil processing at Brazilia...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Workers at Century Aluminum's Hawesville smelter reject labor deal-union » Unionized workers at Century Aluminum's Hawesville, Kentucky smelter voted to reject the company's proposed labor agreemen...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Goa Carbon reports 16,709.500 MT of Calcined Petroleum Coke production for April » Goa Carbon has reported production of 19,835.355 MT (million tonnes) of Calcined Petroleum Coke for the month of April 201...
Monday, May 4, 2015 Imperial Oil Ltd first-quarter profit cut in half — but the oilsands giant still plans to jack outpu » Imperial Oil Ltd., the Canadian oilsands company owned by Exxon Mobil Corp., reported on Thursday that first-quarter...
Monday, May 4, 2015 Suncor Energy Inc. (USA) (SU) Posts Earnings, Misses Estimates » Canada’s biggest oil and natural gas company Suncor Energy Inc (NYSE:SU), published its earnings results for the first qua...
Monday, May 4, 2015 BP, USW reach tentative Whiting agreement: Update » Reuters) - BP Plc and the United Steelworkers union (USW) chapter representing striking workers at the company's Whiting,...
Monday, May 4, 2015 Slower demand growth and low prices hurting aluminium producers » Government-owned companies are obsessed with raising production year-on-year, irrespective of market behaviour. ...
Monday, May 4, 2015 BP Refinery Strike Could Soon End » Workers and management at BP have reached a tentative agreement that would end a months-long strike at the multinational’s...
Monday, May 4, 2015 Crude oil holds near 5-month highs after weak China factory data » Investing.com - Crude oil futures held near the highest level in nearly five months on Monday, as weak China factory data...
Monday, May 4, 2015 Yunlin DPP must fight PM2.5: youth organizer » With the first regular session at the Yunlin County Council beginning today, environmentalists in the county yesterday urg...
Monday, May 4, 2015 2014 UK Low-Carbon Power Levels Break All Sorts Of Records » Provisional numbers from the UK’s Department of Energy & Climate Change show that not only did electricity generation...
Monday, May 4, 2015 Orascom Construction intends on being an integral part of Egypt's recovery by supplying services for » Osama Bishai, Orascom Construction's CEO, explains why Egypt's economy is poised for a take off. With the first successful...
Monday, May 4, 2015 UPDATE 1-Century Aluminum issues lockout notice to Kentucky smelter workers » Century Aluminum will invoke a lockout of unionized workers at its Hawesville, Kentucky smelter starting on May 11 if the...
Monday, May 4, 2015 Egypt: Suez Cement sees 3% fall in 1Q15 revenues » Suez Cement Group of Companies (SCGC), part of the Italcementi Group, saw revenues decline three per cent in the first thr...
Thursday, April 30, 2015 USW to vote on Century Aluminum's final offer at Kentucky smelter » United Steelworkers Local 9423: * Unionized workers at Century Aluminum's 244,000-tonne-per-year Hawesville smelter to vot...
Thursday, April 30, 2015 Indian Oil commissions Paradip refinery » ndian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOC) has started the process of commissioning its long-delayed 15 million-tonne/year, full-conversio...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 How the Fukushima Disaster Crippled Japan's Climate Plans » Japan used to have a pretty good reputation on climate change. Thanks to its robust industrial economy, it has the fourth-...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 China Government Lowers Coal-fired Power Rates as Economy Slow » China appears to be weakening its war against pollution with a decision to cut costs for consumers of coal-firedpower.&nbs...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Coal a major contributor to the UK power mix » The latest GB Electricity Market Summary by energy data analyst EnAppSys, indicates Britain’s 1Q15 fuel mix was powered by...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Labour Party threat to UK’s carbon price support emerges » The UK’s Labour Party is the most likely major political party to banish the country’s controversial carbon tax on power g...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 EPA rules for coal-fired power plants » West Virginia and 14 other coal-reliant states gave oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Co...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Crude oil price at 4-month high » Brent oil prices jumped this week to the highest level so far this year, as the latest Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen stok...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Cement demand to pick up by second half fiscal 2016 » UltraTech Cement, an Aditya Birla-group company, is in the middle of an expansion driver with the company aiming to become...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Appeal of Rio Tinto Alcan Smelter Pollution Begins Monday » Two Kitimat residents' appeal of a BC government permit allowing Rio Tinto Alcan to dramatically increase pollution from i...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Century, USW at stalemate in labor talks at Kentucky aluminum smelter » Century Aluminum rejected a proposal from unionized workers for a new labor deal at its Hawesville, Kentucky, smelter over...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Holcim and Lafarge receive European Commission’s approval for CRH to buy assets » CRH has been approved by the European Commission as a purchaser of assets in the European Union from Lafarge and Holcim. C...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Cemex up on US, Mexico and Asia » Cemex’s sales for the first quarter of the year came to US$ 3.4 billion, a +7% increase on a like-for-like basis with the...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Europe PMI Falls in April as Chinese Demand Slows Down » Previously, we analyzed the indicators of the US economy. In this part, we’ll analyze recent indicators of the European ec...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Must-Know: China’s Flash PMI Falls below 50 in April » China’s flash PMI. http://marketrealist.com/2015/04/must-know-chinas-flash-pmi-falls-50-april/
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Global Supply to Rise as China Eases Aluminum Export Taxes » China eases aluminum export taxes . http ://marketrealist.com/2015/04/global-supply-rise-china-eases-aluminum-export-ta...
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