Factory sales fall 0.3% in March on declines in coal and oil

Petrochina Co Ltd scrapped its bid to take over Brisbane-based coal seam gas producer WestSide Corp, due to a stronger Australian dollar and mounting costs. Energy and mining projects in Australia have suffered because of higher local currency and ...

The growth in the handling of crude oil, petroleum products and coal contributed New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) to register highest ever traffic during 2012-13. Addressing presspers...

The eight industries include crude oil, petroleum refinery products, coal, electricity, cement and finished steel and have a weightage of 37.9 per cent in the overall Index of Industrial Production (IIP).

--March decline was the fourth in six months --Petroleum, coal, chemicals accounted for bulk of drop --Unfilled orders fell 1.1%, new orders declined 2.2% (Recasts paragraph 3, adds new details in paragraphs 4-10) OTTAWA--Canadian manufacturing ...

Canadian factory sales edged down 0.3 percent in March from February, due mainly to weaker sales in the petroleum and coal products and chemical manufacturing industries, according to Statistics Canada data

Bituminous Product Manufacturing in AustraliaThis industry's products include a range of petroleum products manufactured using base stocks consisting of oil, grease and organic compounds, as well as oil or grease recovered from used petroleum waste ...

Apollo Gas Limited is a natural gas exploration and production company. The company has a 100% interest in seven petroleum exploration licenses which cover approximately 23,600 square kilometers within the Sydney-Gunnedah Basin in NSW. The ...

(For a daily alert on this column: SALT INCOL GO) May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Coal India Ltd., the nation's biggest producer of the commodity, cut output across its operations after a federal order to keep explosives from terrorists halted shipments of the ...

Over 5 per cent increase in railway freight on all major commodities like foodgrains, petroleum products and fertiliser will fuel inflationary pressure, say economists."Definitely there will be some increase in transportation cost. . . transportation costs for heavy industries like coal and cement will rise by at least 0.5 per cent. Besides, inflation will also increase by 0.25 per cent," Chief Economist at RPG Foundation Pai Panandiker said. Wholesale Price Index-based inflation declined to ...