Asia/Pacific
Indian state-run companies mull daily fuel price change
MUMBAI (Reuters) -- India's state-run oil marketing companies, which control over 90 percent of the retail fuel market in the country, are mulling a plan that would allow daily changes in the price of automotive fuels, Economic Times reported on Friday.
Gastech '17: Day four edition of the official conference newspaper
TOKYO -- Here is the day four edition of the official newspaper for the Gastech 2017 Conference & Exhibition.
China's Sinopec shuts Yanshan refinery rubber unit after environmental checks
BEIJING (Reuters) — China's Sinopec has ordered its rubber unit in Yanshan refinery to shut in response to environmental checks, it said, after the Ministry of Environmental Protection detected odor.
CB&I awarded multiple petchem technology contracts in china
THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- CB&I announced it has been awarded multiple technology contracts by Tianjin Bohua Chemical Development Co. Ltd. for a grassroots petrochemicals plant to be built in Tianjin, China.
BP to develop Indonesian retail fuel business with AKR Corporindo
JAKARTA (Reuters) -- Oil major BP has signed an agreement with Indonesian petroleum and chemicals logistics company AKR Corporindo for the joint development of a "differentiated" domestic fuel retail business, BP said in a statement.
Traders cancel light cycle oil cargoes ahead of China tax
SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) -- Traders in North Asia are rushing to cancel loadings of a range of oil products for sale to China, ahead of a planned Chinese consumption tax that will make the trade uneconomic.
Gastech '17: Day three edition of the official conference newspaper
TOKYO -- Here is the day three edition of the official newspaper for the Gastech 2017 Conference & Exhibition.
China plans to impose taxes on oil by-products
SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) -- China plans to impose consumption taxes on oil by-products such as mixed aromatics, light cycle oil and bitumen blend, tightening regulations on a fuel import market worth millions of dollars.
ExxonMobil in talks to buy Singapore's Jurong Aromatics
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- ExxonMobil said on Wednesday it is in talks to buy a refining-petrochemical complex in Singapore that could boost its fuel and chemical production in Asia.
China grants two independent plants import quotas totaling 4.08 MMt of crude
BEIJING (Reuters) -- China has granted two independent refiners crude oil import quotas for a total annual volume of 4.08 MMt, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in two separate statements on Wednesday.
- CNOOC completes construction on $2.9-B, 1.8-MMtpy integrated complex in east China 8/22
- bp's Whiting refinery (U.S.) continues to flare days after severe thunderstorm 8/22
- Bachmann introduces latest version M-Target for Simulink 8/22
- U.S. to rule on biofuel waivers, but big oil refiners may need to wait 8/22
- Chinese independent refiner Hongrun buys Canadian, Brazilian crude 8/22
- Ukrainian attack suspends Russian oil flows to Hungary, Slovakia 8/22
