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...build a 2,200km gas pipeline from eastern Siberia to northern China....
...Results from Snap will be closely watched after last month’s profit warning and transport companies American Airlines, Alaska Air and railroad operator Union Pacific, also report earnings....
...Climate change groups, including Majority Action and Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition, claimed Mr Raymond’s demotion as a victory....
...But last weekend Rex Tillerson, the former ExxonMobil chief executive now US secretary of state, said the US opposed the project, arguing that the planned pipeline undermines Europe’s energy security and...
...The decision to expand sanctions to cover companies financing or supporting Russian energy export pipelines was taken to primarily target Gazprom’s under-construction Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany...
...The gas pipeline to Europe is being built by Gazprom, but five EU energy companies have agreed to finance half of its cost. Gazprom appears unflustered by the prospect....
...Port officials closed container terminals at noon on Friday, while Union Pacific, a freight railroad, curtailed service along the Texas coast as it shunted cars to higher land....
...Looking at a dispute with a fresh pair of eyes also paid off for lawyers involved in a fight between railway operator Union Pacific and pipeline company Kinder Morgan....
...The Pacific Maritime Association, which represents employers at the ports, has blamed the congestion on deliberate work slowdowns by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union....
...its presence as a great power in the Pacific....
...But western oil companies are also among the losers....
...“Spreads are favouring the Bakken crude to move to the east and west coasts, and not to the Gulf coast,” says Jack Koraleski, chief executive of Union Pacific (UP), the US’s biggest rail network....
...A growing share of oil, largely from Rosneft, is flowing directly to China by pipeline....
...For the moment all trade routes are open, including the pipelines through Ukraine....
...Take a look at the last several weekly carloading reports from the Union Pacific Railroad. Scroll down to the “petroleum products” line....
...He gained his first taste for the bankruptcy business during his time at the US Treasury in the 1970s when he led the restructuring of Penn Central Railroad....
...In the western US, the two big railroads – Union Pacific and BNSF – have invested heavily in the region’s booming oil production....
...Ships are also increasingly moving refined oil from the Pacific North West to California....
...Jack Koraleski, Union Pacific’s chief executive, said the company planned to invest more than $250m this year in assets mainly for use by its crude oil business....
...Company....
...The train that stands on the track running past the Union Pacific railroad’s Davidson Yard in Fort Worth, Texas, is one that two years ago the company could scarcely have anticipated operating....
...Eric Butler, Union Pacific’s executive vice-president of marketing, said the company had seen a “steady ramp-up” in crude oil volumes throughout the year....
...Both CSX, NS’s rival in the east, and Union Pacific, operator of the largest network, have reported significant falls in coal volumes in the third quarter as generators switch to cheap natural gas and Chinese...
...Record special payouts from US companies: A record number of US companies have announced special dividends in recent months in order to escape higher taxes on equity income payments, the FT reports....
...Baghdad signed long-term contracts between late 2008 and early 2010 with oil groups including ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Total of France, Lukoil of Russia and CNPC of China to develop a dozen gigantic...
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