The system provides an open database of statistics on oil production, refining, trade, demand and stocks.
According to XXXXXXXXXXXX, Vice Minister for Petrochemicals (and PDVSA Vice President for Refining, Trade, and Supply) Asdrubal Chavez reportedly told another Japanese firm recently that any natural gas supply deal signed before he assumed his current position at the Ministry is invalid and that it was not in PDVSA's interests.
Yesterday, in a presentation lasting less than an hour, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation unveiled Daniel Libeskind's "Refined World Trade Center Site Master Plan".
"The Chinese have definitely cut back on long-term contracts, but we don't know exactly why," said Andy Lipow, a Houston refining and trading analyst.
After the merger of Salomon and Philipp Brothers, Mr. O'Malley was put in charge of the company's oil refining and trading division (replacing Marc Rich, the fugitive financier pardoned during Bill Clinton's last days as president).
He had learnt about hospitality from his gregarious father, had refined his trade in Switzerland and Belgium (the hotel was then owned by the Belgian airline, Sabena) and, in time, he became the supreme schmoozer.
Full details of the findings are set out in confidential inspection reports from Ernst & Young, which was brought in to review the practices of the Kaloti Group, a $12bn refining and trading business based in Dubai.
The oil group said the bulk of the latest $1bn restructuring cost will go towards staff redundancies in all segments, including oil exploration and production, refining and trading and administration.
The carmaker cited high petrol prices in the United States, its biggest market.ConocoPhillips decided to sell its remaining petrol stations, following other oil companies in offloading low-margin retail operations to focus on exploration, refining and trading.
The Purina connection has more to do with Koch's oil refining and trading divisions.
The earnings would have been worse if not for an increase in profits from downstream refining and trading, which rose to $2.6bn from $1.6bn last year.
