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Monday, June 9, 2014 China’s Daily Crude Oil Imports Fall From Record on Maintenance » China’s daily crude oil imports fell in May after reaching a record high the previous month, as refining capacity dropped...
Monday, June 9, 2014 EPA takes aim at Southeast Side petcoke facility » The Environmental Protection Agency has officially linked KCBX Terminals and its mounds of petroleum coke on the Southeast...
Monday, June 9, 2014 Port of Long Beach's coal exports tarnish its "green" reputation » The State of California is known internationally as an environmental leader. Both of Southern California’s biggest...
Monday, June 9, 2014 Port of Long Beach's vote to lock in coal exports for another decade » While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced last week the nation’s first regulation to limit carbon pol...
Monday, June 9, 2014 The chief executive of Rio Tinto Ltd.’s aluminum division is stepping down » The company announced Wednesday that aluminum industry veteran Jacynthe Côté is leaving Rio Tinto Alcan to pursue other in...
Monday, June 9, 2014 In Chicago, nurses take up fight against petcoke piles » “Stunning, just stunning, just stunning,” said Sheilah Garland, shaking her head as she stared out the window of the bus r...
Monday, June 9, 2014 2014 CPC Report Summer Supplement Release » Jacobs Consultancy Inc. has just released its 2014 Annual Calcined Petroleum Coke© Report – Summer Supplement. The 2014 Su...
Monday, June 9, 2014 Seats contested for western Ky. utility board after power rate increases » Competition is fierce for a couple of seats on a western Kentucky utility board that recently saw rate increases. The Mess...
Monday, June 9, 2014 ALCOA workers vote overwhelmingly to approve new labor contract, national numbers not released » Approximately 444 workers from ALCOA Inc.’s Tennessee Operations in Alcoa voted Friday to approve a five-year labor contr...
Monday, June 9, 2014 Job cuts likely at BHP’s Worsley alumina plant in WA » BHP Billiton has flagged possible job cuts at its alumina operation in Western Australia following the completion of a maj...
Monday, June 9, 2014 Eskom to Ask More Clients to Cut Power Use on Tight Supply » South Africa’s state-owned power utility said it will ask more industrial customers to cut use to prevent managed blackou...
Friday, June 6, 2014 First tar sands oil shipment arrives in Europe amid protests » 570,000 barrels of Western Canada Select heavy blend crude, originally from Canada, arrived in Spain's port of Bilbao in t...
Friday, June 6, 2014 Senate panel approves spending bill with funds to improve oil train safety Read more here: http://w » The Senate Appropriations Committee approved on Thursday a transportation spending bill that includes funding to address g...
Friday, June 6, 2014 Phillips 66 Acquires Major Gulf Coast Crude Oil and Refined Products Terminal . » Phillips 66, an energy manufacturing and logistics company, has agreed to purchase a 7.1 million-barrel storage capacity t...
Friday, June 6, 2014 Oil in ‘sweet spot’ as year’s 1st OPEC meet nears » As OPEC members prepare for their first meeting of the year this Wednesday, they’ve already found a price target and outpu...
Friday, June 6, 2014 California moving to prevent spills of oil shipped by trains » Last year, railroads brought 6.3 million barrels of crude into the Golden State, mostly from North Dakota and Canada, acco...
Thursday, June 5, 2014 (0 Comments - view/add) Europe Facing Power Crisis As Utilities Choose Coal Over Gas » U.S. shale gas production has led to a surplus of coal on the global market, creating a supply glut and cutting coal price...
Thursday, June 5, 2014 How the shale boom translates into big profits for U.S. refineries » U.S. refineries are churning big profits compared to their international counterparts, in large part because the U.S. shal...
Thursday, June 5, 2014 Chicago Petcoke Site Violated Clean Air Act » The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says a petroleum coke storage facility on Chicago's southeast Side violated the C...
Thursday, June 5, 2014 Bakken Crude Volatility, Rail Safety Scrutinized in Northern US » The U.S. department of transportation recently issued an emergency order requiring shippers of Bakken oil to ensure that t...
Thursday, June 5, 2014 Canada crude imports from U.S. nearly double year-on-year » Canada almost doubled imports of crude oil from the United States in April compared with the same month a year e...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 The Railway Shale Play » By now, most investors have likely heard of the shale oil and gas revolution that’s underway in the US–the discovery of wh...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 Alstom and Isolux to convert a power plant from fuel oil to petroleum coke » Alstom and Isolux have signed a contract with Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) to convert two 158 MW units at...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 EPA targets petcoke dust on Southeast Side » For months, a company that stores giant mounds of petroleum coke on Chicago’s Southeast Side has maintained it had nothing...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 (0 Comments - view/add) Costly crude and diesel glut spoil summer for Europe's refiners » Europe's refining sector has battled for years with weakening demand and over-capacity which forced a string of plant shut...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 U.S. refiners struggle with too much light crude: Kemp » Most of the extra oil produced in the United States in the next two years will be light crudes and condensates that domest...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 Apollo Global invests $700M in small shale player » Apollo Global Management is pumping $700 million into an Oklahoma oil and gas producer bent on snapping up upstream and mi...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 Refining chief: We don’t oppose US oil exports » Phillips 66 Chairman and CEO Greg Garland said the company doesn’t oppose potential exports of U.S. crude oil, arguing tha...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 ND governor calling for more pipelines » Gov. Jack Dalrymple is meeting with industry leaders later this month in Bismarck to push for more oil and gas pipelines i...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 Flint Hills gets green light to process more domestic crude at West Refinery » Flint Hills Resources today announced it has received notice from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Te...
Monday, June 2, 2014 Mukah smelter up and running again » Press Metal Bhd’s aluminium smelting plant in Mukah, which was badly damaged by a statewide power outage last June, is now...
Monday, June 2, 2014 (0 Comments - view/add) US manufacturing expanded at slower pace in May as growth in orders, production weakens » U.S. manufacturers grew at a slower pace in May as measures of orders and production fell. Factories also added jobs at a...
Monday, June 2, 2014 Venezuela to appeal arbitration ruling on Sweeny refinery unit » Venezuela will appeal an arbitration ruling allowing refiner Phillips 66 to acquire state oil company PDVSA's 50 percent s...
Friday, May 30, 2014 India's Reliance turns to African crude in shale boom spin-off » India's Reliance Industries is boosting crude imports from Africa and cutting its dependence on the Middle East as the own...
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