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Standard Sells Assets, Closes Some OperationsThe Standard Oil Co. said it sold and closed so

A new argon recovery plant is being built by Canadian Oxygen Ltd. in Courtright, Ontario, Airco Indu

Richard E. Lyng, agriculture secretary, will be in Brussels, Belgium, this week as a member of the U

An Agriculture Department livestock economist says the nation's cattle inventory continues to declin

The U.S. plans to push for an intergovernmental producer-consumer forum to exchange data on the copp

The port of Portland has seized an American Automar Inc. ship caught in a squabble involving credito

Rice production forecasts for Thailand for 1986-87 (January-December) have been reduced to 18 millio

Mobile's Grain Elevator Setting Daily RecordsMOBILE, Ala. - The public grain elevator at Mob

Less than two weeks after announcing it was being shelved, Malaysia says an ambitious natural gas pi

Norway, the only Western industrialized nation to openly collaborate with OPEC, probably will contin

China is hoping its first onshore oil exhibition and conference opening today in Canton will help at

For someone trying to sell computer programs to farmers, it was an odd admission. Unlike mos

Bangladesh Gets Grant To Buy US WheatDHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh will receive a Japanese

Iran was forced to increase its imports of refined petroleum products to some 300,000 barrels a day

The Island Hope, one of two containerships that Island Shipping Line operates between between Yokoha

December 8, 1986 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo

Westinghouse Nuclear International Inc. and BBC Brown, Boveri and Co. Ltd. were awarded a joint cont

Freight handled at the port of Dover in the first 10 months of 1986 totaled 8.2 million metric tons,

The Standard Oil Co. formed Standard Oil Finance, a unit of the company organized as a profit center

Gasoline stations will deck the pumps with higher prices this Christmas season, a petroleum industry

Iraqi warplanes have struck and "immobilized" the Iranian shuttle tanker Free Enterprise, in the sec

Rhode Island's state Energy Assistance Office next month will begin a three- year program aimed at h

WASHINGTON - The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of c

Carl E. Bagge, president of the National Coal Association and chief spokesman for the industry for 1

Mitsubishi Expects Extension of LNG PactJapan's Mitsubishi Corp. said it expects its 20-year

Consumers Power Co. asked two companies to submit proposals for the design and construction of a nat

Simultaneous mass termination of multiple conductors in flat cables used in complex electrical/elect

Essex Hikes Sulfuric Acid,Oleum PricesEssex Industrial Chemicals Inc., a subsidiary

Societe Chimique Prayon-Rupel SA and Nitron Chemical Corp., its U.S. sales agent, denied dumping an

Union Carbide Corp. announced that it has received tenders (including guaranteed deliveries) of appr

Austin Dedicates Solar Electric PlantAUSTIN, Texas - The city of Austin dedicated the first

Waterman Steamship Corp. asked a U.S. district court to halt the acquisition by American President L

BASF made a major move into the national brand antifreeze-coolant market with the acquisition of the

The domestic market will ease restrictions on cigarettes, wine and beer produced in the United State

There will be no navigational improvements to Portland, Maine's Fore River ship channel if a recomm

The nation's newest nuclear-powered attack submarine is a symbol of the United States' new military

John Gaughan, U.S. maritime administrator, leaves for Brazil today to see if the expiring shipping a

The U.S. dollar turned mostly higher at midday Monday after trading narrowly mixed throughout the mo

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Washington public port officials are calling on the U.S. government to prohibit foreign crane operat