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...A coastal community of 67,000 people on the fringes of the Lake District, Barrow has been a manufacturing town since the 19th century....
...To get a sense of its chances of doing so, we headed down to the coastal county of Cornwall in south-west England....
...It will also mandate usage quotas for industries such as fertilisers and oil refining to drum up demand, while creating coastal “hydrogen hubs” to facilitate exports....
...Pemex, the state-owned oil and gas company, formally declared its vast Dos Bocas refinery in the country’s south-east open on Friday....
...Eni, which owns 8.33 per cent of PCK, said refining activities had not been affected by the sanctions....
...Burkinabè gold is mostly smuggled through the country’s porous border with Togo and flown to Dubai for refining....
...The US National Hurricane Center said Laura was an “extremely dangerous hurricane” with “extreme winds and flash flooding” expected in coastal areas of Texas and Louisiana....
...Exhaust gases transformed into toxic particles that pollute coastal regions....
...The argument has been particularly compelling for companies such as BP and Royal Dutch Shell, which, like Exxon, have extensive fuel refining and marketing operations....
...Trevor Williams, visiting professor at the University of Derby: No, and the UK’s recovery will be significantly weaker than its peers....
...When Iceland threatened to close the NATO base at Keflavík, which would have made it difficult for NATO to deny the Soviet Union access to the Atlantic, Britain agreed to stay out of its coastal waters....
...Marine fuel oil is made from the residue of the refining process and can contain up to 3.5 per cent sulphur content....
...The changes are cementing the stature of the US in world oil markets, feeding exports of crude from shale fields and fuel made by coastal refineries....
...The move comes as excess Chinese refining capacity pressures domestic margins, threatening returns for powerful state owned oil companies PetroChina and Sinopec....
...But Harvey has shown that a coastal hurricane can hit inland production, too....
...On the downstream side, operating refining capacity in coastal Texas and Louisiana jumped by almost a quarter from about 7m barrels per day on the eve of Katrina to 9.7 bpd at the latest count, even as capacity...
...Pipelines carrying gasoline and diesel from the Gulf Coast refining hub to population centres in coastal and inland states were soon forced to shut or run at reduced rates due to lack of supplies....
...It opened a polo club in the Beijing-adjacent port city in 2010 that has since imported the Swiss game of snow polo to the coastal metropolis....
...Harvey knocked out more than 3m barrels per day of oil refining capacity, or 16 per cent of the US total, according to S&P Global Platts....
...But it was also motivated by CNPC’s strategy to build a refining base in south-west China, a political stronghold for Mr Zhou, and avoid the stranglehold on coastal refineries enjoyed by state-owned rival...
...At a hotel in the coastal state of Goa on Saturday, Narendra Modi looked on as Rosneft announced the biggest foreign direct investment in Indian history — apparent vindication of the prime minister’s recent...
...“Imports are certainly offsetting any declines that we’ve had in domestic crude,” Joseph Gorder, chief executive of Valero, the largest US refining company, told a conference in New York this month....
...The refining industry on the US Gulf Coast says the primary benefits of the proposed pipeline from Canada would be to replace risky crude supplies from countries such as Venezuela and cut the chances of...
...A dismal chemicals markets and the growing surplus of refined fuels in the world’s second-largest oil consumer dented the companies’ refining business in the first half....
...those who have been genuinely affected and to clean up all areas where oil has been spilled from our facilities, including the many parts of Bodo which have been severely impacted by oil theft, illegal refining...
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