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Report: JGC-led consortium wins exclusive right to negotiate contract for $8B Vietnam refinery project

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has won the exclusive right to negotiate a contract to build Vietnam’s largest refinery in the northern province of Thanh Hoa. The estimated $8-billion project will results in a refinery with the capacity to process 200,000 barrels of crude per day to produce products such as gasoline, diesel oil, kerosene, jet fuel and polypropylene.

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Mazda more than tripling gasoline and diesel SKYACTIV engine production capacity at powertrain plant in Thailand

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The annual production capacity of MPMT’s engine assembly plant, which began full-scale production in October 2015, is 30,000 units. liter gasoline engines, which are shipped to Auto Alliance (Thailand) Co., The plant produces SKYACTIV-D 1.5-liter liter clean diesel engines and SKYACTIV-G 1.3-liter The SKYACTIV-G 2.0

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Ford unveils new 2015 Focus four-door sedan; 1.0L EcoBoost with start/stop comes to US model

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2015 Focus four-door sedan. liter EcoBoost engine is a transverse-mounted, inline three-cylinder turbo gasoline direct fuel injection with Ti-VCT. gasoline direct injection engine, the new Focus 1.0-liter 2015 Ford Focus Electric. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) US EPA fuel economy ratings are not yet available.

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Saudis Expand Price War Downstream

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In June 2015, Saudi Arabia pumped a record 10.564 million barrels a day, a record level. We see refining margins weakening on worsening diesel fundamentals, particularly east of Suez, though gasoline should be supportive. per barrel in first quarter of 2015). by Gaurav Agnihotri for Oilprice.com. In fact, at $5.60