DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) has signed a $1.5 billion contract with Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. to build an aluminum refinery in the kingdom's Eastern Province, a bourse statement said on Sunday. The refinery will have an annual production capacity of 1.8 million metric tons of smelter-grade alumina and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2014, the statement added. (Reporting by David French;... full story ![]()
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has announced plans to construct an $8 billion refinery in Nigeria later this year, according to a report by Nigeria’s Leadership newspaper.
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The Texas company that wants to build a $10 billion oil refinery in Union County has a week to break ground or ask for another extension.
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Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has secured loans amounting to $4.25 billion from a consortium of banks to build an oil refinery in a move to help Nigeria reduce its dependence on oil imports.
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A contract worker critically hurt in a fire at a Southeast Texas refinery has died.
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British Columbia billionaire David Black says he's given himself one month to finalize an ambitious $25-billion plan to build a gas refinery in Kitimat, B.C. Black has been building a high-profile case for a refinery in B.C.'s north for months, and says his project is the safest way to for Enbridge's controversial Northern Gateway Pipeline project to proceed.
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Premier Christy Clark says she has been working with B.C. media mogul David Black on his proposal to build a massive oil refinery near Kitimat on the north coast.
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By Diane Bartz and Erwin Seba WASHINGTON/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Refiner Tesoro Corp. has received formal approval from antitrust regulators to buy a BP Plc refinery in southern California for more than $2 billion without requiring any asset sales. The Federal Trade Commission, which assessed the deal to ensure it complies with antitrust law, said there was evidence that...
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Energy giant to offload its last Australian refinery, effectively sealing exit from Aust oil refinery sector.
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