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...China is home to more than half of the world’s lithium, cobalt and graphite refining capacity....
...The group has partnerships with Amazon and Panasonic to break down their electronic waste into powder form, treat it with chemicals and send it back into the supply chain as a raw material....
...Refineries in Lake Charles owned by Phillips 66 and Citgo Petroleum were halted, as were others in Texas owned by Motiva Enterprises, ExxonMobil, Valero Energy, Total and Chevron, S&P said....
...The affected refineries included North America’s largest, Motiva Enterprises’ 630,000 b/d plant at Port Arthur, as well as Citgo’s 425,000 b/d refinery at Lake Charles, S&P said....
...Graphite occurs naturally and can be synthesised as a byproduct of petroleum refining....
...The company’s rapid expansion from the refining, pipeline and ranching business they inherited provided a fortune for each of them, which Forbes estimates at more than $42bn and Bloomberg puts at almost...
...Deleverage was sizeable, with net debt falling to £1.2bn (inc deeply subordinated bonds, pre IFRS16), or down £343m YoY....
...Crystallex therefore went after Citgo as compensation, arguing that PDV Holding Inc, which is owned by Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA, is essentially an “alter ego” of the Venezuelan state....
...It has defaulted on all its bonds except a 2020 issue because, if it fails to pay that, PDVSA risks losing Citgo, its US refining asset, which has been pledged as collateral....
...It would have opened the door to holders of defaulted Venezuelan sovereign bonds also to seek to seize PDVSA assets, potentially including those of Citgo, its US refining subsidiary....
...and chemicals sectors”....
...Ten refineries in the region were still shut down on Saturday morning with a combined total of about 2.9m barrels per day of refining capacity, representing about 16 per cent of the US total, the Department...
...Praxair, which employs nearly 27,000 people, sells its gas products to companies across the globe in a variety of sectors, including healthcare, petroleum refining, manufacturing and water treatment....
...Since 2014 only two companies have invested in Indonesian alumina processing: Indonesia Chemical Alumina and Well Harvest Winning....
...More than a dozen business groups, representing industries including oil refining, cement production and chemicals, have backed the states’ challenge to the EPA....
...Following the demerger of its downstream refining, marketing and chemicals businesses in 2012, Conoco has turned its focus to developed countries and North America in particular....
...Oil and gas producers that have other sources of revenues such as refining and chemicals operations, and that still have access to capital markets, will find life difficult but should be able to survive....
...Koch may run the second-largest private company in the US, with interests spanning oil refining, chemicals, electronics and consumer products, and have used his $43bn fortune to become one of the most potent...
...Citing worries over growing corporate debt piles, credit rating agencies have downgraded big companies in shipbuilding, oil refining, chemicals and steel while the persistent strength of the won — particularly...
...They are taking PDV America, Inc and changing its name to Citgo Holding, Inc, which will issue the debt above Citgo Petroleum Corporation. Here is the ownership structure before the name change: 2....
...One was that downstream refining and chemicals operations generally thrived while upstream oil and gas production was suffering....
...The US’s chemicals industry is expected to benefit both from increased domestic oil refining and processing activity as a result of the shale oil and gas boom, and from continued access to cheap feedstocks...
..., Bromine (a resource which enables flame resistance) and Catalysts (chemicals for oil refining)....
...But Reliance’s earnings rely more on refining than exploring. It is, after all, a conglomerate – and one increasingly spending to build a telecoms business too....
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