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Friday, January 30, 2015 UPDATE 2-Citgo Petroleum confirms assets no longer for sale -IFR » Citgo Petroleum confirmed on Thursday that its assets are no longer for sale after parent company PDVSA ofVenezuela cancel...
Friday, January 30, 2015 To rail, or to rail against? » When viewed from the proper angle, the central conflict here bears a peculiar type of poetic symmetry: A local refinery wo...
Friday, January 30, 2015 City may become thoroughfare for oil trains » With oil shipments by rail likely to increase throughout California in the near future, the Simi Valley City Council will...
Friday, January 30, 2015 Factbox: U.S. refinery worker proposals and past negotiations » Lead oil industry negotiator Royal Dutch Shell Plc, said negotiations with the United Steelworkers union (USW) toward a ne...
Thursday, January 29, 2015 Half of China's aluminum smelters running at a loss » A worker at a production line of Nannan Aluminum Co Ltd in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The Shang...
Thursday, January 29, 2015 Fines for polluters in Beijing reach $16m » The punishments levied for environmental violations amounted to more than 100 million yuan ($16.1 million) in Beijin...
Thursday, January 29, 2015 Employers: Agreement Made on Key Issue in Port Labor Dispute » Negotiators working on a new contract for dockworkers at West Coast seaports, which handle about $1 trillion worth of carg...
Thursday, January 29, 2015 Big ships prompt a wave of upgrades at ports » Noel Hacegaba, managing director of commercial operations at the Port of Long Beach, looks at the harbor on a recent sunny...
Thursday, January 29, 2015 GCC aluminum output targets 5 million tonnes in 2015 » ABU DHABI (Scrap Monster): The collective aluminum output by five aluminum majors in the GCC region has increased by...
Thursday, January 29, 2015 British lawmakers demand freeze on fracking » London (AFP) - A committee of British lawmakers demanded a national moratorium on fracking due to environmental concerns o...
Thursday, January 29, 2015 Post-Saudi Succession, Oil Markets Still Seeking An Elusive Equilibrium » Following the passing of King Abdullah, the well-planned Saudi succession offered one source of stability to an unpredicta...
Thursday, January 29, 2015 Argentina: Best Candidate for Next Shale Boom? » London-based research firm Visiongain argues that Argentina could turn out to be the best candidate for the next shale boo...
Thursday, January 29, 2015 Bakken shale: largest weekly decline in activity in at least four years » Baker Hughes has issued its latest drilling rig report, counting the number of active and idled rigs during a week period;...
Thursday, January 29, 2015 Surge in Chinese exports bodes ill for aluminium prices » Global aluminium fundamentals would have been in a much better state had the Chinese industry exercised the same kind of p...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 V.I. to foreclose on HOVENSA, sue for breach of contract » ST. CROIX - Gov. Kenneth Mapp has directed the V.I. government's legal counsel to proceed with foreclosing on the HO...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Traders say puzzled by elevated traded prices for Feb-loading Newcastle thermal coal » The market for Newcastle 6,000 kcal/kg NAR thermal coal was again active Thursday and two 25,000-mt parcels for Febr...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Port congestion: Why the line of ships off Long Beach just got longer » LONG BEACH >> A dozen ships carrying goods bound for store shelves and car lots across the nation cluttered the view...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Coke ships slow as Long Beach halts night shift » Washington, 16 January (Argus) — Coal and petroleum coke shipments from Long Beach, California, are being affected by a ne...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 BALCO gets state nod to commence new power plant » Raipur, Jan 16 (IBNS) Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO), a subsidiary of Vedantaâ€™s SSLT, announced that it has re...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 US, Venezuelan petcoke exports lessen on weaker European, Asian demand » Light trading characterized US and Venezuelan spot petcoke export markets this week as traders restocked their supplies an...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Industry warns of crippling impact of work stoppage at US ports » Representatives of two key industries have warned about the severe risks for the US economy if the increasingly sour atmos...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Lafarge to use waste plastic and asphalt shingles at its cement plants in Michigan » US: The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has granted approval for Lafarge North America to use scr...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Newssummary: China Henan Eliminates 62,500-tpy Outdated Aluminum Capacity in 2014 » SHANGHAI, Jan. 19 (SMM) – Zhengzhou Longxiang Aluminum Co. took 62,500-tpy outdatedaluminum production lines offline perma...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Tesoro seeks to bring Carson, Wilmington refineries together » Tesro Corp. is seeking public and regulatory approval of plans to further integrate its two South Bay refineries int...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Reliance Industries profit falls as cheaper oil hits refining margins » Bearing the brunt of a sharp slump in the global price of crude, Reliance Industries (RIL) reported a 4.5% year-on-year de...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Hidden energy exports through primary aluminium remain a concern » Consecutive years of below five per cent economic growth and 0.7 per cent contraction of the manufacturing sector la...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Chicago council committee moves to limit petcoke transport » The battle over storage of petcoke in Chicago continued Tuesday with the City Council’s zoning committee passing an ordina...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 China’s green ban hitting Aussie coal exporters hard » Australian coal exporters are scrambling to clarify the fallout from China’s new coal import rules, which some fear could...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Chinese coal quality rules may hit exporters » The start to 2015 hasn’t been one Australia’s struggling coal miners had hoped for with uncertainty over China’s coal qual...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 European coal prices swing to discount as US cargoes flood market » SINGAPORE: European physical coal prices have swung to a discount to other global benchmarks after shedding almost a quart...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 New Chicago limits on petcoke piles clear hurdle » A panel of Chicago aldermen on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to the city's latest attempt to regulate the storage of g...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Chinese aluminium smelters shut more capacity as prices dive » HONG KONG: Chinese aluminium smelters are likely to close more than 500,000 tonnes of capacity in coming months as domesti...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 As overcapacity drags on China aluminium prices, product exports jump » MELBOURNE: Overcapacity in China's beleaguered aluminium market will persist in coming months, weighing on local prices an...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 China's 2015 aluminum capacity to hit 40 million mt/year: Antaike » China's domestic aluminum smelting capacity is expected to reach 40 million mt/year by end-2015, up 14.3% from around 35 m...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Outotec to acquire Kempe Engineering's aluminum smelter technologies as well as service and spare pa » Outotec to acquire Kempe Engineering's aluminum smelter technologies as well as service and spare parts businesses i...
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