Egypt is set to stop liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports as of May to fulfill the needs of power plants, two government sources told Al Arabiya Business. The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources is committed to exporting nearly 80,000 tons of LNG to Europe throughout March and April, one...
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Kuwait’s Al Zour refinery has issued a spot tender offering 0.5% very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) for loading in May, trade sources said on Monday. The cargo will comprise 120,000 metric tons of VLSFOand is expected to load from May 2-3, sources said. The tender closes later in the day. Source:...
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Egypt’s state grains buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), bought 250,000 metric tons of raw sugar in a tender, the supply ministry said on Sunday, revising an earlier figure of 200,000 metric tons. The ministry said the shipments would arrive from May to July. Traders had...
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Ukraine’s grain exports in the 2023/24 July-June marketing season had reached almost 39.5 million metric tons as of April 22, against 40.7 million at April 24 last year, agriculture ministry data showed on Monday. Exports so far this season have included 15.1 million tons of wheat, 21.7 million...
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Iraq has approved plans to set up refinery, petrochemical and fertiliser projects within a strategy to convert nearly two-fifths of its crude production into export products, the OPEC producer’s Prime Minister said in comments during a visit to the US. “We have devised a plan to convert 40 percent...
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Russia’s exports of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to China by rail, the main supply route, rose 51% in the first quarter from a year earlier to 72,300 metric tons, Reuters calculations based on data from industry sources showed. Traders said that the main contributor to the increase was Irkutsk Oil...
China’s soybean imports from the United States fell by half in March from a year earlier and corn exports also plummeted, as buyers favour more competitive supplies from Brazil’s hefty harvest, data showed on Saturday. U.S. suppliers face stiff competition for global export sales from South...
For the first time in 17 years, China has no U.S. soybean cargoes booked as of mid-April for the upcoming marketing year, though the top importer’s demand may not be as poor as it has claimed. As of April 11, U.S. soybean exporters had sold just 734,000 metric tons to all destinations for shipment...
Russia’s coal shipments to China fell 21% in March dragged down by sanctions and import tariffs, customs data showed on Saturday. China’s coal shipments from Russia fell to 6.92 million metric tons in March, its General Administration of Customs said. The shipments of Russian coal to China, which...
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Russia became the top oil supplier to India during the fiscal year 2023/24 for a second year in a row, squeezing the market share of Middle Eastern and OPEC producers to historic lows, ship tracking data from industry sources showed. New Delhi has been gorging on Russian oil sold at a discount...