Liberty Oilfield Services Inc this week estimated roughly 21 percent of the hydraulic fracturing fleets that were active in mid-2032 have now been idled or are being idled.
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And some idled aluminium capacity is being brought back online.
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Hyundai's South Korean factories will be fully idled from Feb.
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Lenders pulled back, rigs were idled and wells shut in.
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Buckingham expects Ramos Arizpe to "likely" be idled this week.
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Then George idled by the doorway, hunched into his coat.
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Chinese output and idled capacity is difficult to estimate, analysts say.
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VW has idled its Emden plant for five days from Aug.
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But Mike idled behind tinted windows for the next ten minutes.
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Then they spent the day preparing the idled machinery to restart.
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United Airlines has idled its 14 Max 9s through June 5.
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Hyundai didn't specify how long the Montgomery plant would be idled.
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Days are now marked by resignations, unanswered messages and idled capacity.
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He added the government would take over idled factories, without providing details.
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A few koi idled there, poking at the surface for the scraps.
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In America, idled steelworkers are contemplating how to live off the land.
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My cab idled for a couple of minutes at a dead standstill.
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Bad feelings polluted my tired mind as I idled around doing nothing.
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In Guangdong Province in the southeast, factories have idled workers in droves.
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An idled concrete mixer still stands in the middle of the courtyard.
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The euro idled at $1.1063 having found support at $1.0987 last week.
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Television crews hoping to get Mr. Zanis on camera idled out front.
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Looking around, I saw other idled travelers with forms bearing official-looking stamps.
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He said the company also faces a significant sales headwind from idled equipment.
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About 200 workers will be idled, and Ford cautioned further cuts could follow.
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"Getting an idled refinery up and running could be very expensive," he said.
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Sterling idled at $1.3067 as the market waited for more developments on Brexit.
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Sterling idled at $1.3063 as the market waited for more developments on Brexit.
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The Lordstown plant is being idled, resulting in the loss of 1,1013 jobs.
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Idled pipelines have corroded, thieves have stolen copper wiring at desert oil facilities.
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Puerto Rico has no operating refineries, as the last one idled in 2009.
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In March, Ms. Barra idled more than 21998,103 workers in Ohio and Michigan.
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Three police boats idled in the water on either side of the bridge.
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It logged me off every time my phone idled, and cut out unexpectedly.
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Oil prices have fallen, reflecting the sudden drop in demand from idled refineries.
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ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steelmaker, has idled a number of plants across Europe.
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The result has been the wholesale reactivation of idled steel production in China.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Roughly 20 percent of the hydraulic fracturing fleets that were active in mid-2018 have now been idled or are being idled, as lower oil prices prompt producers to tighten their budgets, Liberty Oilfield Services Inc estimated on Tuesday.
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But that has idled thousands of the elephants that toil in the logging industry.
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The worsening corn outlook will reduce output as some capacity is idled, Cooper said.
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Wenatchee and Intalco are due to be idled this quarter and next quarter respectively.
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Daimler has also idled its factories in Alabama and South Carolina for two weeks.
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"Success" would require the restart of just 500,000 tonnes of idled U.S. smelting capacity.
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He said it takes three months to a year for idled mines to be restarted.
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China's cuts last year, part of a crackdown on polluting industries, mostly involved idled plants.
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The plant, which has a 1.5 million tonne per year capacity, will be idled indefinitely.
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And right now the price is telling them that it's profitable to restart idled capacity.
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Some weren't seeing doctors until much later, or their insurance forms idled in the system.
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The company has idled plants to trim soaring inventories and boost margins, it said Thursday.
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The company also said it had temporarily idled its Harvey coal mine in southwestern Pennsylvania.
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And it's not just Malaysia that has become the dumping ground for idled oil equipment.
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Smoke from the race riots hung over the city; armored cars idled in the streets.
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Those on aluminum and steel are specifically aimed at encouraging restarts of idled domestic capacity.
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Many were growing isolated and even suicidal as they idled in shelters, Ms. Bakker said.
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Factories in Italy that make Lamborghini super cars and Ducati motorcycles will also be idled.
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Through "Detroit South" and in Midwestern factories operated by Japanese automakers, manufacturing was also idled.
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Power cuts have idled the local slaughterhouse, once one of the largest in Latin America.
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The company said 1,100 employees from idled plants had already been placed at other factories.
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The mismanagement exacerbated an equipment shortage and contributed to idled work crews and delayed repairs.
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Newly homeless residents in Tutu Valley idled in 90-degree heat outside their ravaged homes.
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Thousands of people were idled when the town's main employer, the chemical industry, shut down.
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Several Chinese cities have been seemingly shut down, with some factories idled and flights canceled.
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Indeed, recent Baker Hughes data suggested U.S. oil explorers idled more oil rigs this week.
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This caused prices to plunge and several U.S. steel mills to be idled last year.
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The plant was idled and the lives of the remaining 1,400 GM employees were uprooted.
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That may have idled as many as 200,000 additional workers at those companies, according to estimates.
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That may have idled as many as 220,000 additional workers at those companies, according to estimates.
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It also allows G.M. to close three idled factories permanently, including one in Lordstown, Ohio. 221.
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The refinery's previous operator, Valero Energy, idled the complex in 2012 because of low profit margins.
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Ford said the Cuautitlan assembly plant that builds the Fiesta would be idled for three weeks.
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Some of the massive plants along the river have been idled; some have laid off workers.
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The previous operator, Valero Energy Corp, idled the refinery in 2012 because of its low profit.
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The Fund said China's capacity reduction targets appeared to include closure of already-idled steel plants.
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Nearly 5 million tonnes of aluminum capacity was idled last year, according to the industry body.
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Taxi drivers idled outside, waving down the few shocked passengers who trickled out of the building.
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As a result, the machines have been idled and the workers who serviced them, laid off.
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The coker was idled in 2010 after an economic recession drove down demand for motor fuels.
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Companies have idled fracking rigs as they wait for supply to tighten and prices to rise.
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Tyton Biofuels' 55-million-gallon-per-year plant in Raeford, North Carolina, idled a week ago.
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The trust idled sugar refineries and took over smaller competitors, limiting supply and driving up prices.
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National Guard vehicles rumble through small towns or idled outside Big Lots stores and baseball fields.
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This year, the country has suffered outages that have idled factories and left millions without power.
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Ships are sitting in ports, shipments are idled, goods are floating and waiting for a port.
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The plant will be idled "for several months" beginning at the end of February for retooling.
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MarketWatch notes that three refineries were idled while 6900 were trying to return to full operations.
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Alcoa has idled capacity at Wenatchee in Washington, another "Enron survivor", and at Rockdale in Texas.
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In 2016, 45 million tonnes of capacity was closed, but most of this was already idled.
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The facilities were idled last week because of a lack of parts from suppliers in China.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc's trading arm on Friday entered a tolling agreement with the owners of an idled oil refinery in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, cementing plans to bring the plant back online six years after it was idled by previous owners, the company said.
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The missiles were idled by nuclear disarmament treaties between the United States and Russia in the 1990s.
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One multi-time major champ (Maria Sharapova) has been idled by a doping suspension and then injury.
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Lower prices are likely to be reflected in more idled rigs over the coming month or two.
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Everything from sun glare to an idled truck forced Iijima to have to drive the car himself.
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Against a basket of currencies, the dollar idled at 95.123 having touched a two-week trough overnight.
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And as many bankrupt firms seek to sell assets, operating wells are valued more than idled ones.
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Last year, Contura sold its Wyoming mines and Alpha reduced its clean-up obligations for idled mines.
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Against a basket of currencies, the dollar idled at 95.080 having touched a two-week trough overnight.
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The storage field, California's largest, has been effectively idled since a major well rupture there last autumn.
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Idled smelting capacity has been restarted thanks in part to U.S. tariffs on imports of the metal.
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A white SUV belonging to a Lynchburg TV station, almost two hours away, idled in the lot.
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In November 2018, more than 1,700 autoworkers were laid off when GM idled its Lordstown, Ohio, plant.
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Also, the company's plants in Gwaltney, Virginia and Clinton, N.C., were both recently idled by the storm.
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The dollar could make little headway on the safe-haven yen, though, and idled at 106.14 yen.
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The plants normally remain idled for almost three months every year, a period companies use for maintenance.
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The dollar could make little headway on the safe-haven yen, though, and idled at 106.20 yen.
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Fiat Chrysler, for example, recently idled one Michigan plant that builds its slow-selling Chrysler 200 sedan.
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The union is pressing G.M. to move some production from Mexico to the idled United States plants.
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In March, GM idled its plant there, which had for years been producing the Chevy Cruze sedan.
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The refinery has been idled due to U.S. sanctions on Citgo's parent Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA.
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Including the two lines on standby at Warrick, idled capacity at active plants is about 420,000 tonnes.
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Its total steel capacity is thought to be 22019 MMT, so many of its mills are idled.
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The idled commercial airplanes have been piling up on expensive real estate for more than nine months.
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The idled Syncrude site is one of several supply disruptions that boosted global oil prices last week.
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The dollar idled at 109.31 yen, having spent the entire week in a tight 10917/109.67 range.
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Its bestselling jetliner, the 26 Max, has been idled worldwide after being involved in two deadly crashes.
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Another night I idled at the bar on a leather stool with legs of bent chrome-plated pipe.
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Alcoa has also just announced the dismantling of a long idled potline at its Wenatchee plant in Washington.
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A battered pickup truck idled on the side of the road outside Makhmour, northern Iraq, on Friday afternoon.
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The euro was holding steady at $1.1620, while sterling idled at $1.2926 amid ongoing uncertainty over Brexit negotiations.
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The recent flooding and storms also idled grain processing operations in Nebraska and slowed rail and truck transportation.
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The euro was holding steady at $1.1619, while sterling idled at $1.2921 amid ongoing uncertainty over Brexit negotiations.
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It should rise further as Century Aluminum reactivates a third idled line at its Hawesville smelter in Kentucky.
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A section of the plant was idled for part of the year, and management began laying off staff.
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But aid convoys idled, still waiting for word that routes into the besieged city of Aleppo were secure.
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The idled Daneros mine had applied to the Bureau of Land Management for an expansion in July 2016.
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Chiapas, where our van idled 200 yards from that checkpoint so long ago, was an example of this.
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This month, PBF Energy, restarted a coker at its Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery that had been idled nine years.
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A dingy Toyota Camry idled near a sparkling Audi A5 and a row of short yellow school buses.
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That included a move by Century Aluminum, a large American manufacturer, to restart an idled plant in Kentucky.
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Windsor Assembly plant workers walked out mid-afternoon Thursday, and the facility was idled until about 3 p.m.
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The Lordstown plant was idled by GM in 2019 and sold to Lordstown Motors, an electric-vehicle company.
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For a moment, a middle-aged woman pulled up in a sedan and idled next to the site.
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He recently began buying idled coal-fired power plants, breaking them up for scrap and redeveloping their sites.
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The Lordstown plant was idled because it was making a small car that few consumers wanted to buy.
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Green Plains said it idled about 50 million gallons of capacity at nine plants during its second quarter.
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They are demanding — among other things — that GM keep jobs in the US and reopen its idled factories.
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They are demanding — among other things — that GM keeps jobs in the US and reopen its idled factories.
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The idled furnaces will cut production by about 200,000 tons of steel or more a month, the company said.
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The large number of idled rigs last year sparked fierce competition among operators and intense discounting to secure contracts.
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The UAW also wanted a plan to restore production at idled plants, specifically in Lordstown, Ohio, and Hamtramck, Michigan.
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The company says the shifts will be idled at factories in Lordstown, Ohio, near Cleveland and in Lansing, Michigan.
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Odebrecht Agroindustrial's Alcídia mill has a crushing capacity of 2 million tonnes per year and was idled in 2015.
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Pacific idled part of its Aurora, Nebraska, plant late last year with no near-term plans to restart it.
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Individual coal plants are capable of much higher, but old coal plants are being idled more and more often.
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It could take until 2021 for Boeing to deliver hundreds of idled Max jets to airlines around the world.
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The company said the plant would be down "indefinitely" after the Friday night fire, which idled some 3,800 workers.
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Some of the company's idled capacity elsewhere will have to wait until mid-March to start the refiring process.
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The euro was a shade higher at $1.1636, while sterling idled at $1.95.7379 amid ongoing uncertainty over Brexit negotiations.
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The factory employs about 2,3003 hourly workers, most of whom will be laid off when the plant is idled.
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One vehicle after another pulled into the empty parking lot and idled, the occupants confounded by the " closed " sign.
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Over the past year, with prices low, many fracking companies in North Dakota and Texas have idled their rigs.
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City buses idled eight deep by Fourth Avenue and Flatbush Avenue because the Q train was down for repairs.
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G.M. recently idled three car and two engine factories in North America in an effort to shed 0003,000 jobs.
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The U.A.W. would like G.M. to move some production from Mexico to fill idled plants in the United States.
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Those profits reached $8.1 billion last year, making idled plants another point of contention in this year's contract dispute.
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GM said it will be "idled" for several months beginning at the end of February as the renovations begin.
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It recently waged a six-week strike at General Motors that idled the automaker, costing an estimated $2.9 billion.
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Wang said Hanjin's woes could boost container shipping rates as some of the carrier's older ships should be idled.
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G.M.'s recent agreement with the U.A.W. allows it to permanently close three idled plants in the United States.
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Thousands of workers have lost their jobs and moved on — leaving idled mines, abandoned homes and shuttered stores downtown.
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Auto production fell 24%, the most on record, as carmakers idled factories around the original March 29 deadline for Brexit.
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This year, it slashed 45 million tonnes of capacity, but most of that permanently shuttered plants that were already idled.
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"We will resume blast furnace production at one or both idled blast furnaces when market conditions improve," said the company.
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If one particular airline faced a downturn, it could at least sell some of its idled planes to raise capital.
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Factories brought lots of modestly skilled people together with massive capital equipment that cost owners dearly when idled by strikes.
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He claims that many of those who once idled their days away in qat dens are now hard at work.
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The June 27, 2016 blast on a heat exchanger idled the Enterprise Products plant in Pascagoula, Mississippi for six months.
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The Eagle Ford shale basin lies in the path of the storm and producers in the region have idled production.
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The first plant to be temporarily idled will be Abelardo Luz, also located in Santa Catarina, starting on June 4.
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Smithfield Foods Inc hog processing plants resumed normal operations on Tuesday after they were idled by technical issues on Monday.
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Since then, it idled in the Senate Banking Committee while Republican leaders sought to shore up support for the measure.
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Trump hopes to save an idled General Motors (GM) manufacturing plant in Lordstown that has become engulfed by national politics.
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The Rusal ripple effect has directly undermined the Administration's stated goal of seeing idled capacity restart in the United States.
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Supply is likely to increase from Australia and elsewhere as miners bring back idled output or work existing mines harder.
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In the distance, past the salmon hutches where the agents cloistered, soldiers in fatigues idled under a peeling concrete arch.
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National ____ Long-forgotten pictures by Times photographers idled by a newspaper strike capture escape and discovery in the city's parks.
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The ship is already idled, sitting in a French port since September because no country has agreed to register it.
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Major automakers have idled plants in North America for at least a week, forcing employees to rely on unemployment insurance.
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U.S. refiners have been increasing capacity mostly through debottlenecking and other efficiency gains, even as some smaller plants were idled.
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Various other plants were idled or closed over the past 30 years, but it's simply false that none were built.
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Magna International, one of the world's largest auto suppliers, has idled "a few" plants, according to a spokeswoman, Tracy Fuerst.
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The union is pushing G.M. to reopen idled plants, and increase pay and benefits for temporary and newly hired workers.
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On Thursday, as his plane idled on the tarmac in Miami, Mr. Trump spotted Air Force One outside his window.
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Ford Motor has told managers in China to work from home while its factories remain idled, said a company spokesman.
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GM last week confirmed it had idled engine production at the Silao facility last week, temporarily laying off 450 workers.
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The union wants G.M. to provide better wages, reopen idled plants and pay new hires the same as veteran ones.
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The oilfield services provider warned that margins would remain under pressure as it spends more to bring back idled equipment.
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The restart of the one blast furnace will likely take about four months; the other blast furnace will stay idled.
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The unit was idled unexpectedly early Monday due to minor glitches and was to restart later in the same day.
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But cracks had begun to show even before the shutdown idled hundreds of thousands of federal workers shortly before Christmas.
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Another Michigan plant is among those to be idled, as well as facilities in Ohio and Maryland, and in Ontario, Canada.
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Zinc production was up 9 percent, Glencore said, adding there were no plans to restart idled capacity in Australia and Peru.
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To make his characters feel real, Seeley considered how long they idled before responding, or whether they deleted words while typing.
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But many of the plants closed last year were already idled, hence the limited impact of the closures on steel production.
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Vale has around 60,000 tonnes of idled production capacity, taken off-line at the end of 2017 due to low prices.
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"The crisis has idled many young people," says Faustin-Archange Touadéra, a former maths professor who is now the country's president.
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In addition, a factory in Ingersoll, Ontario that solely produces the Equinox will be idled for one week during late September.
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The Rusal sanctions, by contrast, dovetail with the U.S. administration's aluminum tariffs, aimed at encouraging the restart of idled production capacity.
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The dollar could make no headway on the yen, which benefited from its own safe-haven status, and idled at 109.95.
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Retailing, e-commerce and other service industries are growing and absorbing some idled workers but others are struggling to find work.
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The tariffs and the resulting strong premium are there to help U.S. aluminium producers, particularly those trying to restart idled capacity.
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The Rusal sanctions, by contrast, dovetail with the U.S. administration's aluminium tariffs, aimed at encouraging the restart of idled production capacity.
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Several European utilities meanwhile have idled or sold gas-fired power plants over the past few years due to tight margins.
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The idled oil workers who used to cluster in the main square, hoping to pick up odd jobs, have moved on.
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The dollar could make no headway on the yen, which benefited from its own safe-haven status, and idled at 109.93.
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Sweeping capacity cuts Most of the world's biggest airlines have announced dramatic reductions to schedules and have idled hundreds of planes.
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Across the country, idled federal workers and contractors are taking up last-resort jobs with ride-hailing services and delivery apps.
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He idled in front of the towering church that his grandfather constructed in the town that grew around the mill, Viale.
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Century's chief executive, Michael A. Bless, said earlier this month that the levies were prompting aluminum companies to revive idled capacity.
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The shutdown, which Trump initially said he would take responsibility for before shifting blame to Democrats, idled some 800,000 government employees.
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For three days, we idled in international waters between Myanmar and Thailand waiting for the boat to appear on the horizon.
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He said representatives from idled plants had voiced concerns about the agreement before the group voted to recommend it to workers.
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The train, which left Sydney on Thursday morning, had been severely delayed, and passengers said it had idled before the accident.
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The Secure Act — whose main goal is to expand access to retirement savings — has idled in the Senate despite bipartisan support.
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Like G.M., Fiat Chrysler has idled several thousand workers this year while it retools factories in Toledo, Ohio, and Belvidere, Ill.
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Last week US Steel (X) announced that it would restart a tube works facility there that it had idled in 2016.
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The crowd idled with pending excitement, warmed by their first round of drinks, still in the sweet spot of the weekend.
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In downtown Rapid City, we idled at empty intersections, block after snowy block, waiting for traffic lights that governed no traffic.
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There is a little more than a million tonnes of capacity lying idled, ready for restart if the conditions are right.
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The plant was idled in July, and more than 1,000 full-time workers were laid off, including 640 United Steelworkers members.
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The U.S.-listed shares of several Canada-based firms continued trading even as their Toronto-listed securities were idled by the outage.
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Transportation companies must also weed out applicants who fail drug tests, and faced disruptions from summer hurricanes that idled thousands of workers.
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It also won commitments to new G.M. investments in United States factories, while accepting the permanent shutdown of three plants already idled.
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GM lost money because factories in the United States, as well as some in Canada and Mexico, were idled during the walkout.
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TMK's North American division, Ipsco, has idled two plants and plans to lay off 40 percent of its 2,700-person work force.
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U.S. Steel said it would restart one of two idled blast furnaces at an Illinois steel plant, creating up to 500 jobs.
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The return of the idled capacity is dependent on the return to full capacity of Hydro's Alunorte alumina plant which feeds Albras.
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Rigs have been idled for so long that it may take months of maintenance before they can be brought back into service.
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An assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario, will be idled for two extra weeks to reduce inventories of the Chevrolet Impala large sedan.
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Those models will have to be made somewhere, and some could end up in one or more of the three idled plants.
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As for the cars made at the soon-to-be-idled plants, GM has confirmed that they too will get the ax.
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Up to a third of China's annual production capacity of 43 million units may have to be idled this year, PWC estimates.
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Demand has tumbled for small and midsize cars — like the Chevrolet Impala and Buick LaCrosse — produced at plants that will be idled.
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For days, the ship has idled off the coast as Princess and American officials have tried to figure out what to do.
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Lamborghini idled its plant in Sant'Agata Bolognese last week, and Ferrari followed suit at facilities in Maranello and Modena over the weekend.
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For its part, G.M. secured the union's acceptance that three plants already idled, including a factory in Lordstown, Ohio, will close permanently.
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Paul Romer and I idled in a rental car for three hours under the desert sun, waiting to get into Burning Man.
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On the table idled a Chanel purse circa 1990, covered in Warhol-inspired splotches, the spoils of an apprenticeship to Karl Lagerfeld.
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He has idled in neutral while Congress has waited for a sign from the White House on what it plans to propose.
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The plan was aimed at encouraging a restart of the idled smelter and attracting electric-arc furnace steel makers to the state.
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Mantos recently bought idled loading equipment "at a competitive price" to replace rented equipment, helping to reduce costs, said executive chairman John MacKenzie.
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Nuclear energy now accounts for less than 2 percent of Japan&aposs energy mix since most reactors were idled after the 2011 disaster.
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The six-day strike by SEPTA's 4,700 city transit workers idled subways, buses and trolleys that provide almost 1 million rides each weekday.
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Well, obviously, there is the potential for Glencore to reactivate the 500,0003 tonnes of mine capacity it has idled since late last year.
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The other charge deals with Bill Clinton's decision to meet with then Attorney General Loretta Lynch while their planes idled on the tarmac.
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In commodity markets, oil prices idled as the focus turned to oversupply worries and away from escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
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GM originally offered to invest $7 billion and add 5,400 jobs in the US, including "solutions" for idled plants in Ohio and Michigan.
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GM will also start making surgical masks, a critical component for health care workers, at its idled factory in Warren, Michigan, next week.
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GM will also start making surgical masks, a critical component for health care workers, at its idled factory in Warren, Michigan, next week.
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Ford's main rival, General Motors, has idled or greatly scaled back operations at four plants in the United States and one in Canada.
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"I learned that song in Rio Claro," he said, as ferries idled on the river and the Manhattan skyline shimmered in the distance.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles stopped making small and midsize cars last year and is converting two idled car plants to make Jeeps and trucks.
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Ford is trimming salaried employees, G.M. is cutting production shifts at some factories and Fiat Chrysler has idled plants that make passenger cars.
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Fiction-writing simply did not count in terms of academic production, especially after Tolkien had idled away his two-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship.
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As the bus idled and waited for stragglers, a woman urged the driver to get going so she could make her next train.
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To get to the targeted 2653 percent level would require 669,000 tonnes of idled capacity to be brought back, the Commerce Department calculates.
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Spirit Aerosystems (SPR) is offering voluntary layoffs to employees, amid the Boeing supplier's uncertainty over how long 737 Max production will remain idled.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Glencore is still keeping the zinc market guessing over when the company will reactivate its 500,000 tonnes of idled mine capacity.
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The U.S.-listed shares of several Canada-based firms were still trading even as their Toronto-listed securities were idled by the outage.
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The country is already planning to relax environmental rules to allow Chinese factories idled during the epidemic to get back up to speed.
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President Trump spent several days on Twitter this week admonishing Ford's rival General Motors to reopen an idled car factory in Lordstown, Ohio.
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Operational units could take more than two years to get ready, another source said, because of the long time the facility has been idled.
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In the current slump, however, drilling costs have recovered more slowly than normal as the market has absorbed a huge number of idled rigs.
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The total impact was that Oscar guests enjoyed vegetarian canapés inside a ballroom while their drivers idled outside for hours in 14 MPG Escalades.
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After weeks of trans-Atlantic travel, this oil is showing up in higher American imports, put into storage when refineries were idled for maintenance.
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Three of the reactors have been shut since the 2007 quake and the other four were idled in the months after the Fukushima disaster.
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Biosev has a large plant idled in center-west's Mato Grosso do Sul state, the Maracaju mill, whose operations were interrupted late last year.
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In 23 novels over 32 years, he idled in Barcelona's cafés and bars and fell in and out of love; sometimes he solved cases.
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GM has recently cut more than 14,000 jobs at factories in the U.S. and Canada after it idled factories that produced slow-selling vehicles.
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One asset Rio Tinto wants to sell, the Blair Athol coal mine in Queensland, has been idled since 2012 after 30 years of mining.
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After the restart, Alcoa will have about 886,000 metric tons idled of its total smelting capacity of 3.4 million metric tons, the company said.
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Executives for two contractors told Defense One the shutdown is costing them $10 million per week in payroll for workers who have been idled.
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Imports held about a 27 percent market share last year, helping to keep several U.S. steel mills idled and thousands of workers laid off.
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Instead, he idled away his time before going back to London, where a typo in his passport led to him being recognized and arrested.
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While a total of 22017 million tonnes of annual capacity was shut in 2016, exceeding a national target, the majority had already been idled.
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Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been idled or working from home since offices closed at noon on Friday ahead of the storm.
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Better, she argued, for Washington to help idled workers with lost wages, potential patients with coronavirus-related medical costs and businesses with vanished revenues.
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A squadron of chubby capybara — the world's largest rodents — idled in the muddy shallows before suddenly charging off, churning the water, lunging and splashing.
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The tariffs, which took full effect a year ago, have spurred a handful of domestic investments and the reopening of a few idled plants.
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The Pacific Northwest is understandably excited about a possible shift to wooden building materials, as it is home to copious forests and idled sawmills.
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A lengthy strike could pose new economic challenges to the region as the costs of idled factories pile up for GM and local businesses.
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Platten said he knew of at least one crew that is running low on food because their ship has been idled for so long.
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More tonnage of container ships is idled around the world now than during the global financial crisis, according to Alphaliner, a shipping data service.
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Spirit Aerosystems (SPR) – Spirit is offering voluntary layoffs to employees, amid the Boeing supplier's uncertainty over how long 737 Max production will remain idled.
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The euro was stuck at $1.1095, while sterling idled at $1.3000 after poor British economic news fanned speculation about a cut in interest rates.
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The euro was stuck at $1.1097, while sterling idled at $1.3000 after poor British economic news fanned speculation about a cut in interest rates.
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It is impossible to know precisely what will remain undiscovered if U.S. scientists are idled by funding shortages, or what will be discovered elsewhere.
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In the meantime, an official at one pipe maker told Reuters one of the company's five factories has been idled until later this year.
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Producers in Indonesia, another major Asian exporter, had idled several important mines in response to falling prices but are reversing course as prices rise.
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It's Complicated Hundreds of thousands of federal employees returned to work this week, with no guarantee they won't be idled again in mid-February.
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The company also confirmed its 2018 dividend policy would include a fixed dividend of $1 billion and said it would reactivate idled capacity "when appropriate".
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A Taiwan quake in September 1999 measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale killed more then 2,400 and idled the country's chip industry for six days.
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A fatal tailings dam collapse in January at a mine operated by Vale, Brazil's largest producer, cut production as mines were idled for safety checks.
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Japan idled all of its 54 nuclear power facilities after the incident, but seven have since been reactivated "after a protracted relicensing process," Reuters wrote.
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Citgo Aruba Refining signed a 15-year lease with the government of Aruba, agreeing to refurbish and reopen an idled 209,000-barrel-per-day refinery.
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The four-year union contract approved last week to end the strike allowed the company to close three plants already idled in the United States.
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Work on reopening and converting the idled refinery into an oil upgrader, approved in 2016 by the Caribbean island's government, will be halted by Feb.
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Six or seven exploration rigs have been idled by the strike, as well as the drilling of new wells at some production platforms, NOG said.
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Separately, the Norwegian Shipowners' Association, which represents the interests of rig owners, said it expected up to ten rigs to be idled during the week.
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Halliburton Chief Executive Officer Jeff Miller said that market remains oversupplied and the company idled equipment during the quarter and will continue to do so.
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The company said it would permanently close its idled potash mine in the Canadian province of New Brunswick and take a $1.8 billion impairment charge.
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After the partial restart, Alcoa will have about 886,000 metric tons idled of its total smelting capacity of 3.4 million metric tons, the company said.
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Citgo in 2016 signed a 25-year lease contract with Aruba to refurbish and operate the idled refinery as part of a $685 million project.
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Union leaders and local officials hope GM will change its mind and slot another vehicle for the plant before the facility is idled next March.
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Union leaders and local officials hope they can convince GM to reverse course and slot another vehicle for the plant before the facility is idled.
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On Wednesday Century Aluminum held an official ceremony to celebrate the reactivation of the first of three idled potlines at its Hawesville plant in Kentucky.
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While such negotiations wouldn't typically involve the U.S. president, Trump has previously commented on the talks when GM idled its Lordstown Assembly plant in Ohio.
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Such a situation could happen, with so many of the planes that had been idled for months coming back into service at the same time.
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The union is pressing for more job security as well as the reopening of plants in the United States that the company has recently idled.
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GM last week idled a plant in Mexico that produces its highly profitable Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500 pickups, temporarily laying off 6,000 workers.
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But because the doors of the idled plant will be closed more often, the falcons need to leave — or else they may be trapped inside.
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Tens of thousands of entertainment workers were idled, and the action cost the Los Angeles economy more than $2 billion, according to the Milken Institute.
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Parts of the Granite City Works were idled in November 2015 and January 2016, although a hot strip mill there was restarted in February 2017.
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But many of the plants that have been closed in recent years were already idled and output from still-open plants has continued to rise.
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The search began after a dispute last year between the Venezuelan company and U.S. oil producer ConocoPhillips left the plant idled amid attempted asset seizures.
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The search began after a dispute last year between the Venezuelan firm and U.S. oil producer ConocoPhillips left the plant idled amid attempted asset seizures.
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But in December 220, an appellate court issued a temporary injunction keeping the reactor, already idled for routine maintenance, shut down for nine more months.
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Those operating plants outside Hubei province such as Volkswagen and General Motors have said they will keep some factories idled for one or more weeks.
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His jail journey began as the Greyhound Bus idled at the Baton Rouge depot, amid a cross country journey from Miami to his California home.
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The funding lapse idled hundreds of thousands of federal workers, left hundreds of thousands more working without pay and disrupted air travel, among other effects.
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The market has been waiting for news of when Glencore might bring back to the market zinc capacity idled in 2015 when commodity prices were crashing.
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The negative is that restarting idled mines takes far longer and owners have to be convinced that the higher prices are sustainable before committing fresh capital.
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Many of the plants closed last year were already idled, however, and output from the still-open plants actually rose 1.2 percent to 808.4 million tonnes.
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Some motorists idled for hours trying to get home, and others gave up and abandoned their vehicles in one of the worst local commutes in years.
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As always, Bev idled her car at the curb, jogged up the porch steps, accepted the keys through the half-opened door, and saluted her farewell.
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The dollar weakened 0.1 percent against a basket of currencies at 95.578 while sterling idled at $1.3081 as the market waited for more developments on Brexit.
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A STOP-START REVIVAL The United States produced 23,2437 tonnes of primary aluminium last year, with a little over 2000 million tonnes of production capacity idled.
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The Postal Service took the rare step of suspending mail delivery in many places, and in southeastern Minnesota, even the snowplows were idled by the weather.
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However, many of the plants closed last year were already idled and output from the still-open plants actually rose 1.2 percent to 808.4 million tonnes.
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Idled since 1993, the distillery is due to reopen in 2019, along with a visitor's centre in Falkirk, a growing visitor destination between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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I arrived at the Luxury Sheets Kiosk and the brawny man with floppy brown hair idled a few feet away, trying to decide what to do.
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But GM has offered to bring a new vehicle and battery production to two of the plants it idled, one in Michigan and one in Ohio.
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Idled since 1993, the distillery is due to reopen in 2019, along with a visitor's center in Falkirk, a growing visitor destination between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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In the past four weeks nine idled oil rigs have been put back to work in the Permian basin, the richest of America's shale-oil provinces.
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Titan expects to list on the TSX this month and plans to use the funds to restart the idled Empire State zinc mine in New York.
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The once crowded trailer parks housing workers are nearly deserted, stacks of drill pipes rust and idled rigs spread over acres lay down on their sides.
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Due to weak global demand, fertilizer miner Mosaic Co has idled production at its Colonsay, Saskatchewan potash mine in western Canada for the rest of 2016.
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Factories have been idled and thousands of flights canceled around the world as the coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, has become a global pandemic.
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In the United States, where the death toll hit 21, President Trump said he would discuss tax cuts and aid for idled hourly workers with Congress.
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Across the Philippine province of Palawan, the impact is reflected in the rows of idled outriggers and the clouds of smoke drifting across freshly denuded hillsides.
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On Wednesday, with talks stalled and G.M. plants idled for more than three weeks by a nationwide strike, Ms. Barra sat down with the union again.
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There are roughly 900 employees at the plant, which is scheduled to be idled for several months at the end of February as renovations kick off.
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Japan, Britain and Germany have issued pessimistic updates that have added to the uncertainty created by the coronavirus, which all but idled China's economy for weeks.
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Pessimistic economic updates from Japan, Britain and Germany have only added to the uncertainty created by the coronavirus, which all but idled China's economy for weeks.
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But after the plant was idled in late 2015, he looked for a new job rather than waiting to be called back if the economy improved.
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The Cadillac CT6 and the Chevrolet Impala are produced at the factory, which will be idled at the end of February for several months for renovations.
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Charah also could lose over 10% of its gross profit if coal-fired power plants are idled or regulated into extinction, two of the sources said.
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Yes, but: The United Auto Workers strike at GM, which included nearly 50,000 workers and idled 34 plants across the country, likely contributed to the weakness.
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Those operating plants outside Hubei province such as Volkswagen AG and General Motors have said they will keep some factories idled for one or more weeks.
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The city of Santa Barbara this month is preparing to fully restart a desalination plant idled in the 1990s that will provide the community with drinking water.
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Some airlines are also weighing extending aircraft leases and bringing back idled planes, but with unclear MAX timing, no option is clear-cut or cheap, consultants said.
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Rival producers such as Green Plains Inc and Pacific Ethanol Inc have laid off workers and idled or sold plants to stay afloat during the sustained downturn.
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Hyundai has idled Chinese factories for a number of days since November because of rising inventories, a source familiar with the automaker's operations in the country said.
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Yields on U.S. 213-year notes duly declined to a 10-week low at 2.596 percent, while the dollar idled at 97.000 against a basket of currencies.
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The loss of U.S. refining capacity should be bearish for heavy crude grades, given many of the refineries now idled used imports of this type for feedstock.
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According to prosecutors, Hasson, "Missouri," and a skinhead drove to a residence in Hampton that night, and idled, waiting for the owner of the house to return.
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Yields on U.S. 113-year notes duly declined to a 10-week low at 2.596 percent, while the dollar idled at 96.956 against a basket of currencies.
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The company said on Friday it would temporarily idle its Harvey coal mine in southwestern Pennsylvania, months after it idled the Miller Creek Complex in West Virginia.
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The 225,000-bpd Pipestill 3B CDU was temporarily idled on Tuesday for the inspection and is expected to return to production sometime next week, the source said.
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Halliburton Chief Executive Jeff Miller on Monday said that market remains oversupplied and that the company idled equipment during the quarter and will continue to do so.
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American primary aluminum producers have since been able to restart their idled capacity and will have increased production by 2202 percent by the end of this quarter.
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The company also said it had proposed to invest $7 billion and add 5,400 jobs in the US, including "solutions" for idled plants in Ohio and Michigan.
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The market has been waiting for news of when Glencore might bring back online 500,000 tonnes of zinc capacity, idled in 2015 when commodity prices were crashing.
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The nation's largest automakers — General Motors, Ford Motor and Fiat Chrysler — have idled their plants as a health precaution, even ahead of an inevitable decline in demand.
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Major automobile manufacturers have been cutting jobs; General Motors drew Mr. Trump's ire last month when it idled a factory in Lordstown, Ohio, and eliminated 14,000 positions.
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A spokesman said Hyundai Heavy was doing its utmost to "normalize our company", working with labor unions to address a lack of work and an idled workforce.
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The ship had originally been scheduled to dock at Port Everglades Sunday morning, but idled along Florida's coast as the tests were conducted, according to the newspaper.
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G.M. usually had few open jobs to offer idled union members, and even when it did, its labor contracts allowed workers to veto transfers to other plants.
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The visit came after Mr. Xi had been criticized for appearing aloof amid increasing public discontent with his government's response to the crisis and an idled economy.
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In Detroit, G.M. reached a tentative agreement on a labor contract that could end a monthlong strike that has idled plants across the Midwest and the South.
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Crucially, Egypt has two liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants that have been idled or running at less than their potential capacity and can be used for exports.
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Bond yields idled as a boost from the trade deal failed to offset pressure from low U.S. producer price inflation data, which highlighted persistently low inflationary pressure.
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DETROIT - General Motors on Tuesday idled a plant in Mexico that produces its highly-profitable Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 21 pickups, temporarily laying off 0003,2000 workers.
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Century Aluminum has 265,000 tonnes and there is the fully idled 265,000-tonne per year New Madrid plant in Missouri, owned by Swiss trade house ARG International.
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The union wants the company to reopen idled plants, add production in the United States and increase wages for temporary workers and those hired in recent years.
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A deal with LG Chem of South Korea will further the automaker's plans for electric vehicles and fulfill a pledge made after its Lordstown plant was idled.
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Citgo Aruba Refining in 2016 signed a 15-year lease with the government of Aruba, agreeing to refurbish and reopen an idled 209,000-barrel-per-day refinery.
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Young indigenous men in baseball caps walked down long lines of idled vehicles, telling drivers if they wanted to pass they must remove any visible campaign advertising.
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The euro has been undermined by a string of dismal data out of Europe and idled at $1.1216 not far from its recent 20-month trough at $1.1174.
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The greater risk for coal in Japan is that it loses some of its competitive edge against LNG, and that more idled nuclear units are returned to service.
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PHOENIX — Negotiations have hit an impasse in an attempt to end a bus drivers' strike that has idled public transportation in the nation's sixth-largest city, officials say.
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Schlumberger was down 2.9 percent at $74.31 after the oilfield services provider warned that margins would remain under pressure as it spends more to bring back idled equipment.
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The Hermosillo, Mexico plant that builds the Fusion and MKZ and the Flat Rock, Michigan, factory that assembles Continentals and Mustangs will be idled for two weeks each.
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The euro has been undermined by a string of dismal data out of Europe and idled at $1.1218 not far from its recent 20-month trough at $1.1174.
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Battling for survival, the company idled 20173 percent of its drilling rigs and its executives did not want to go through such "draconian cuts" ever again, he said.
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The euro has been undermined by a string of dismal data out of Europe and idled at $1.1226 not far from its recent 20-month trough at $1.1174.
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But the lack of financing had delayed work to restart the idled refinery this year and to convert it into an oil upgrader, Citgo said earlier this week.
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That's because much of what has been closed was either already-idled capacity or "zombie" plants, still operating but only to generate sufficient cash flow to service debt.
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Yes, we still have large segments of idled or underutilized labor resources, such as involuntary part-time workers, long-term unemployed and discouraged workers leaving the labor force.
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The articles reported on the failure of a confidential mediation ordered by Sontchi, and on bidding interest in Molycorp's assets, including an idled mine in Mountain Pass, California.
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Pacific Ethanol, the No. 6 U.S. ethanol producer, told investors last week that it idled 10 percent of its production capacity to battle high inventories and slumping margins.
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Lacquered Riva speedboats idled in perpetuity, unloading a steady stream of illustrious guests — a colorful mishmash of European royalty, Hollywood stars and members of the original jet set.
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Earlier in the day, Marathon said the refinery was restarting units idled by Harvey's passage over the coastal city, 45 miles (72 kilometers) southwest of Houston, on Tuesday.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese steel capacity in operation actually rose in 2300 after a high-profile closure program concentrated on shutting idled plants, environment group Greenpeace said on Monday.
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N) began restarting units idled by Tropical Storm Harvey at its 459,000 barrel per day (bpd) Galveston Bay refinery in Texas City, Texas, on Wednesday, the company said.
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It came as federal and state officials scrambled to contain a cluster of cases on the 3,500-passenger Grand Princess, which has idled off the coast of California.
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When we arrived at one of the empty houses one evening, Santiago pulled up in a driveway overgrown with weeds and idled for a minute, observing the scene.
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The Czech economy, like others in Europe, is set to contract sharply after shops closed and businesses idled or limited output to contain the spread of the virus.
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Friday and then idled on the tarmac in Atlanta for about five hours, because health officials learned that three of the evacuees had tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Liberty said it had idled smaller rolling mills in Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy plus three British businesses that make components for the auto industry, including one using aluminium.
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She idled over a vintage Mad magazine with a pregnant Madonna on the cover, and a sleeveless motorcycle jacket from the Indian Valley Chapter of Pennsylvania Harley Owners.
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And most of the federal workers who are idled by Pelosi's intransigence are the part of the Democratic coalition who would prefer a paycheck to an unpaid vacation.
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At the tracks in Tyendinaga, surrounded by snowy fields, several Mohawk protesters pointed with pride to the west where a long freight train had idled for six days.
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The union is pushing General Motors to improve wages and reopen idled plants, while the automaker wants employees to pay a greater percentage of their health care costs.
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The partial closure is due to a lack of supply from idled refineries, as well as storm damage to Colonial's facilities near Lake Charles, Louisiana, according to Colonial.
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About 22 percent, or 379,000 bpd, of Gulf production was idled due to the storm as of Sunday afternoon, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said.
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From then on the guessing game will move up a gear, though Glencore's appears to be leaning toward an incremental phase-in of idled capacity over many months.
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In 22017, drillers idled a total of 22018 oil rigs, the first annual cut since 249 and the biggest annual decline since at least 143, according to Baker Hughes.
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The news service also reported that besides delaying officer salaries, Rio state has also grounded helicopters and idled half the police's fleet of cars to save money on gas.
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At the start of May, ArcelorMittal temporarily idled production at its facility in Krakow, Poland, reduced output in Asturias, and slowed down a planned increase of shipments from Italy.
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The United Auto Workers union approved a new contract with G.M., putting an end to the strike that has idled tens of thousands of workers for almost six weeks.
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Some analysts also warn resuming drilling quickly may prove hard after firms laid off thousands of workers and idled more than three-quarters of their rigs since late 2014.
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The government's plan to restart many of Japan's nuclear-power plants, most of which were idled after the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster in 2011, is anathema to many Japanese.
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"As previously idled capacity comes online during the March-April period, we think the ensuing drop in profitability will trigger a selloff in the iron ore price," Barclays said.
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This price is just above the 11,500 yuan level that Beijing-based industry consultant AZ China nominated in a March 9 report as key for idled smelters to restart.
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The refining capacity that has been idled because of the storm is about 11.2 percent of the U.S. total, and the immediate impact is being felt in gasoline prices.
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The walkout by 4,700 transit workers has idled buses, trolleys and trains that provide some 930,000 rides a day in the fifth most populous city in the United States.
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With steel prices falling sharply, the risk now is producers that reopened - dubbed "zombie" steel mills after being idled when prices slumped in recent years - will have to rethink.
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Even if all the idled capacity in the country were restarted, the United States could still meet less than half of its primary needs, according to the Aluminum Association.
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Costly, specialized ships for laying undersea pipes and placing equipment on the ocean bottom have been idled, and the prices contractors can charge for products have been cut sharply.
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That conservative view of budgets will mean additional rigs and service crews that hydraulically fracture shale wells will be idled, slowing North American production growth in 2019, Lemme said.
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Expanding rapidly in the years leading up to a 2014 collapse in oil prices, Seadrill was left with dozens of idled drilling rigs and billions of dollars in debt.
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Lufthansa, which has idled 700 of its 763 aircraft, has already held talks with the German government on providing liquidity, including through special loans from state development bank KfW.
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Workhorse, the electric truck maker involved in a proposed deal to acquire an idled General Motors factory in Ohio, said Monday that it had raised $25 million from investors.
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As Fernanda was carried toward a beige van that idled outside, the distance between her and her family growing, she began to squeal and flap her arms in protest.
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Widespread testing alongside social distancing can slow the spread of the virus and eventually help restart idled economies and bring countries closer to where they were before the pandemic.
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One project that G.M. is planning is a battery plant to be built with a partner near the site of the factory it idled this year in Lordstown, Ohio.
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Apple is also leading talks on the potential sale of Japan Display's idled smartphone screen factory to Sharp Corp , another iPhone display supplier, sources familiar with the matter said.
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The walkout has idled a system of buses, trolleys and rail service that provides some 930,000 rides a day in the fifth-most populous city in the United States.
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The slide in the U.S. oil rig count has virtually halted as well, with just 2 rigs idled this week, data from industry firm Baker Hughes showed on Friday.
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The first scene—five minutes of unhurried, semi-improvised dialogue—would place the viewer in a car as it wound through South Central L.A., then idled outside a bodega.
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DISINFLATION EVERYWHERE Bond yields idled as a boost from the trade deal failed to offset pressure from low U.S. producer price inflation data, which highlighted persistently low inflationary pressure.
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At one stage last year, the company had idled all three of its mines in response to the collapse in the iron ore price to below $50 per tonne.
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Those operating plants outside Hubei province such as Volkswagen AG and General Motors Co have said they will keep some factories idled for an extra one or more weeks.
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The partial government shutdown has idled a division of the Treasury Department that regulates manufacturers of craft beer, dealing a blow to a booming industry and disappointing discerning drinkers.
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These images disprove that Qing women idled behind palace walls and support the theory they were present to observe and advise how policies were crafted, partnerships constructed, and militaries mobilized.
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Isla began a search for a PDVSA replacement after a dispute last year between the Venezuelan firm and U.S. oil producer ConocoPhillips left the plant idled amid attempted asset seizures.
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The extended factory shutdown in China is costing automakers that have idled plants as the government grapples with a worsening virus outbreak that has already claimed more than 225 lives.
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U.S. output of primary aluminum has started rising sharply thanks to restarts of idled capacity, although not all of them have been directly down to the 10-percent import tariff.
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The extended factory shutdown in China is costing automakers that have idled plants as the government grapples with a worsening virus outbreak that has already claimed more than 420 lives.
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And confidence dipped more substantially in January, when the partial government shutdown temporarily idled hundreds of thousands of federal workers, and again when recession fears dominated headlines in late summer.
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China has granted generous subsidies for power generated from wind and solar plants, unleashing rapid expansions and more recently idled capacity as much has failed to get connected to grids.
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Analysts estimate a third of Iranian industry may have been idled by the sanctions; some of this will now start coming on line as Iran seeks to regain export markets.
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When Uber's CEO came down to the lobby, a prototype driverless car from the Google X lab idled in front of the hotel, waiting to ferry him to Mountain View.
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The Michigan Assembly plant that builds the Focus will be idled for one week and the Kansas City assembly line that builds Transit vans will be down for two weeks.
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But also of importance is the idling of both offshore and onshore oil production in the region, with more than 320,000 bpd of offshore output remaining idled as of Wednesday.
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In prior years a similar pattern has been seen in China's aluminium production, with capacity that had been idled coming back on line fairly rapidly in response to higher prices.
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Executives have made it clear for months that the company would be expanding Jeep production, including converting an idled engine plant in Detroit into a full-time final assembly plant.
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PDVSA and Citgo agreed to a $685 million overhaul of the idled facility in 2016, causing some Citgo executives to resign in protest, arguing the deal made no business sense.
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U.S. output of primary aluminium has started rising sharply thanks to restarts of idled capacity, although not all of them have been directly down to the 10-percent import tariff.
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Supply discipline is only coming from higher cost mines being forced to close, but it's still questionable as whether enough of these operations are being idled to offset likely additions.
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Oil and gas companies are sitting on over 19 million acres of unused public land leases, while over 7,500 approved drilling permits on U.S. public lands are undrilled and idled.
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Highlighting the difficulties enforcing that policy, Greenpeace said on Monday that China's operational steel capacity actually rose in 2016 after a high-profile closure program concentrated on already idled plants.
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Until the practice was banned, in 2010, the city's Department of Education exiled hundreds of troublesome teachers to reassignment centers, where they idled, sometimes for years, reading newspapers and dozing.
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He has threatened to cut GM subsidies in retaliation, but praised GM for entering talks to sell an idled northeast Ohio plant to a cash-strapped electric truck-building company.
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Word had spread while families idled in line that the Texas governor was activating the National Guard, that some of the shelves at a local grocery store were still barren.
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California officials said earlier this week that there are more than 3,500 people aboard the ship, which has been idled at sea, about 50 miles from San Francisco, since Wednesday.
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Citgo and Aruba in 2016 reached a 25-year, $685 million deal to refurbish and reopen the facility, which had been idled since 2012, but little progress has been made.
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The Hyundai shutdowns — the first factory lines to be idled outside China — could portend much more serious disruptions in the complex networks that supply automakers with essential components and materials.
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Background: The company has been earning substantial profits in North America — and made $1003 billion globally last year — but it has idled three U.S. plants as demand for vehicles weakens.
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But its benefits are being felt unevenly, and many workers are still feeling the squeeze in places like Warren, Michigan, one of the places where GM recently "idled" a factory.
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U.S. energy firms idled eight working oil rigs, the first reduction in three weeks, as producers followed through on plans to slash spending, energy services firm Baker Hughes Co BRK.
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Meanwhile, ISIS continues to make its horrifying video art; I watched that video of men in Mosul destroying statues with sledgehammers while my Q train idled on the Manhattan Bridge.
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The agricultural giant Cargill repeatedly idled its two terminals on the Mississippi last fall for lack of work, and in November, workers stayed home unpaid, a nearly unheard-of occurrence.
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Already, China is planning to relax environmental rules to allow factories idled during the epidemic to get back up to speed, which will actually make China's air pollution much worse.
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The explosion occurred when volatile hydrocarbons flowed backward through an idled gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) to a pollution control device called an electrostatic precipitator (ESP), the CSB found.
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At the same time, the agreement allows G.M. to close three idled factories permanently, including one in Lordstown, Ohio, eliminating excess manufacturing capacity at a time when auto sales are slowing.
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As the GM strike enters its fourth week, company officials and union negotiators are still fighting about wages, retirement benefits, and the fate of an idled Chevy factory in Lordstown, Ohio.
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In May, Trump praised GM's disclosure that it was in talks to sell an idled northeastern Ohio plant to cash-strapped electric truck-building Workhorse Group Inc and a new entity.
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These are some of the most active parts of China's B&R projects, where its companies will be able to use production capacities idled by the slowing manufacturing output at home.
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The government estimates costs for replacement fuel – mostly liquefied natural gas - to compensate for idled reactors totalled 14.6 trillion yen ($130 billion) across the industry in the six years through March.
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The walkout, declared a week ago over healthcare, pensions and other issues, idled buses, trolleys and trains that provide some 930,000 rides a day in the fifth most populous U.S. city.
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Nor could Mr. Trump, a billionaire businessman, force steel makers to buy coal from Appalachia to heat furnaces in Asia, Europe and North America that have been idled by weak demand.
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If the price of spot uranium does rise to around $13.563 a pound, as some analysts forecast, it's likely that Cameco and Kazatomprom will simply increase output from their idled mines.
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Bell met Wilson for coffee the next morning at a restaurant in Sloane Square, arriving in a chauffeur-driven town car, which idled in a no-parking zone as they spoke.
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Eight riders and a train operator were killed and dozens were injured when one train rear-ended another as it idled near an aboveground Red Line station on the city's outskirts.
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S. sanctions have idled a quarter of Iranian oil rigs * Iran coronavirus deaths reach 291, cases at more than 8,000 * SCENARIOS-Can't pay, won't pay: What now for Lebanon's debt crisis?
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Isla began a search for a replacement to PDVSA after a dispute last year between the Venezuelan firm and U.S. oil producer ConocoPhillips left the plant idled amid attempted asset seizures.
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Stock prices have also fallen at the steel titans ArcelorMittal and U.S. Steel, which delighted Mr. Trump with its decision last year to restart idled blast furnaces in Granite City, Ill.
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It has cost the union, its members and G.M. itself hundreds of millions of dollars in lost dues, wages and revenue, and has idled truckers and suppliers that serve the automaker.
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Whether it can start moving again will depend largely on how fast China's idled economy starts up — and starts consuming the oil and gas that underpin relations between Moscow and Beijing.
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Damietta has been idled for years due to a lack of gas supply during a dispute with Union Fenosa Gas (UFG), a joint venture between Spain's Gas Natural and Italy's Eni.
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Biosev, the world's second largest cane processor behind Brazilian rival Raízen, said the Maracaju mill in Mato Grosso do Sul state will be idled immediately for an undetermined period of time.
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A power inverter plugged into the cigarette lighter turned the passenger seat into a cubicle: I could sit and work on my laptop while the car idled and charged the computer.
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Fiat Chrysler and Hyundai Motor have idled plants in Serbia and South Korea over missing Chinese parts, and other manufacturers have said they are down to a few weeks of supplies.
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Rival Mosaic Co is looking to restart its idled potash mine at Colonsay, Saskatchewan next year, and K+S AG plans to open a new mine in the province in 2017.
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Major U.S. airlines have also suspended service to China and businesses around the world are expected to suffer from store closures, idled factories, quarantines and other efforts to contain the virus.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp plans to restart next week the last crude distillation unit (CDU) idled at its 502,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refinery by a Feb.
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Sources close to the matter said in July Gunvor was in advanced talks to restart an idled 80,000-barrel per day asphalt refinery on Buckeye Partners' terminal in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
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Public hospitals typically have generators to provide back-up electricity in the event of an outage, but doctors consulted by Reuters said they were either damaged or idled for lack of fuel.
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SANTIAGO/WINNIPEG, April 6 (Reuters) - As slumping metals prices force miners to scale back production, the scramble by some to sell idled equipment at a discount is producing bargains for healthier players.
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"This is what the PES refinery and other idled or closed oil refineries can become to meet the domestic and global demand for cleaner fuels and energy, and safer air," said LeTang.
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And the company, already the third-largest power supplier in Japan, has an additional advantage: in the past 14 months, it has resumed operations at four reactors idled after the Fukushima disaster.
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Analysts and executives said many idled mines would need capital infusions for equipment purchases and mine development, such as waste rock and soil removal that were deferred before they were shut down.
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ArcelorMittal temporarily idled production at its facility in Krakow, Poland at the start of May when it also reduced output in Asturias, and slowed down a planned increase of shipments from Italy.
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U.S. automaker General Motors has been under pressure for months from President Trump over the fate of an idled assembly plant in northeast Ohio which it has since announced it will sell.
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If they can engineer a price rise by limiting output, it will merely serve to bring back idled production, as well as tempting producers outside any agreement to ramp up their volumes.
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Citgo in 2016 signed a 15-year lease with the government of Aruba, agreeing to refurbish and reopen an idled 209,000-barrel-per-day refinery previously run by U.S. refiner Valero Energy.
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Trump's comments came at the start of the third week of a partial government shutdown resulting from the dispute that has left hundreds of thousands of federal workers idled or without paychecks.
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Toronto-listed Katanga said on Monday it had successfully commissioned a part of its processing facility at its Kamoto Copper Company in Democratic Republic of Congo, which was idled two years ago.
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Oil professionals also talk about equipment idled for so long that it has become unusable, rising service costs, and the threat of extra supply from the backlog of drilled-but-uncompleted wells.
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The company, the sixth-largest U.S. ethanol producer, also idled 45 million gallons of production capacity at the Nebraska site and had no near-term plans to restart it, the sources said.
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Employment grew faster than expected in October, with firms adding 128,000 jobs, even though a strike by workers at General Motors idled 46,000 employees at the automaker's plants in Michigan and Kentucky.
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On idled factories, GM proposed to bring a new vehicle to the Detroit-Hamtramck plant and, in a bit of a surprise, to convert its Lordstown plant in Ohio to battery production.
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Qatar's liquefaction Train 7 - previously idled for maintenance - resumed production on Friday, raising the possibility of more frequent deliveries to Britain from the second-half of March and April, one trader said.
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Another threat to carmakers Global automakers have been battling supply chain disruptions after a coronavirus lockdown in China idled parts suppliers and forced some carmakers to temporarily halt production in the country.
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General Motors and Canada's largest trade union have reached a tentative agreement in a labor dispute that has idled an Ontario plant that makes a popular sport utility vehicle, the Chevrolet Equinox.
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Vehicles that would be impacted if the plants were to be idled include the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks and Chevrolet Tahoe, Chevrolet Suburban, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade SUVs.
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If the contract is ratified, it will end a strike that has idled 244 G.M. factories in the United States for more than a month and disrupted operations in Canada and Mexico.
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Mr. Ryan, who cited the closing of the Chevrolet Cruz plant in Lordstown earlier this year as the impetus for his presidential campaign, joined G.M. workers outside the idled plant last Monday.
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With nearly 250,2000 members off the job, the United Auto Workers aims to get General Motors to reopen an idled car factory in Lordstown, Ohio, a goal that President Trump has endorsed.
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Travel bans, quarantines, store closures and idled factories across Asia are likely to derail the Chinese economy and hinder U.S. companies that depend on travel, supply lines and sales throughout the continent.
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Asian markets idled near 18-month highs on Monday as volumes weakened ahead of the Christmas holiday break and investors squared off their positions, taking home hefty gains made earlier this month.
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In September, a court reversed a decision that had idled Shikoku Electric's sole nuclear reactor for about a year, paving the way for the operator to re-open the facility last week.
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OMV has upstream operations in the North Sea, Romania, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Gabon, Kazakhstan, Namibia and Madagascar, as well as idled operations in Libya and Yemen.
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Vehicles that could be impacted if the plants were to be idled include the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks and Chevrolet Tahoe, Chevrolet Suburban, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade SUVs.
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Many Chinese and foreign firms have begun to reopen China factories that were idled for weeks, but shortages of workers and other problems have in many cases kept output to a minimum.
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And the operations of agencies like the Office of Child and Family Services and the Department of Labor were curtailed, as thousands of workers were idled and lawmakers edged toward a deal.
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In Puerto Rico and the USVI, the outages have led to ongoing health and environmental crises as idled sanitation systems have forced some to drink from contaminated wells and other water sources.
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According to a 2017 study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a third of China's overall capacity in 2018, or 14 million of the 42.8 million vehicles a year capacity, is estimated to be idled.
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"There was zero wage growth nationally last month as workers idled, or dislocated, from the hurricane could not work," said Scott Anderson, chief U.S. economist at Bank of the West in San Francisco.
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After years of weeding out "zombie" mills and permanently shutting idled plants, these are some of the toughest steps yet as provincial administrators confront the challenge of meeting tougher central government emissions targets.
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Ford's costs for layoffs would be about $500 million in 2017, one-fifth of what it cost in 2007, to compensate idled workers if U.S. sales were hypothetically to decline by 40 percent.
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As part of its plan to adapt to changing market demands, GM has idled factories that produce slow-selling vehicles, consequently cutting more than 14,000 jobs at factories in the U.S. and Canada.
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John Deere idled 1,500 workers, GE's turbine division cut 1,500 jobs, AT&T laid off 2,900 in its Shreveport plant, Eastern Air Lines fired 1,010 flight attendants, and docked pay by 4003 percent.
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LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - ArcelorMittal has idled its steel plant in Sestao, Spain due to "extremely adverse" market conditions, a company spokesman said on Monday, citing tumbling steel prices and record Chinese imports.
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Sand companies idled half of the roughly 125,000 frac sand cars they had in service in 2014 after oil plunged, experts said, but nearly all are expected to return to service by 13.
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KS container vessel idled off the coast of Mexico after the company's bankruptcy has received permission to dock and unload cargo at the Port of Long Beach, industry and union officials said Friday.
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The removal of 73,000 tonnes of Russian imports combined with spiking aluminium prices, in terms of the London Metal Exchange and local U.S. premiums, are a powerful incentive to refire long-idled potlines.
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RUPTURES, LEAKS The project that Iraq is discussing with BP and Eni involves the replacement of two old seabed pipelines, including an idled one which transports crude to the Khor al-Amaya terminal.
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Over the past decade, for example, Russia has repeatedly cut natural gas supplies to neighboring Ukraine in the dead of winter, prompting fears that homes would go unheated and factories would be idled.
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"He said that he was going to keep jobs here, keep them from moving to Mexico," Hartung said as he idled in his truck on the edge of the GM lot last Wednesday.
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U.S. automaker General Motors Co has been under pressure for months from President Trump over the fate of an idled assembly plant in northeast Ohio which it has since announced it will sell.
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Smelters may consider reopening idled capacity if spot prices rise above 12,000 yuan per tonne and stay at that level for two to three months, said Xu Hongping, analyst at China Merchants Futures.
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Production costs for the majority of the idled capacity are about 11,000 yuan a tonne but the added restart expenses would push up the break even mark to about 12,500 yuan, she said.
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At least 11 percent of the fleet was idled this winter, a number that could double by spring as South America's harvest competes with the United States for exports, according to industry estimates.
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A slump in drilling activity and a glut of steel pipe imports idled several American steel mills in 2015, including U.S. Steel's Granite City, Illinois, plant, where some 2,000 workers were laid off.
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So far, the rise in drilling prices has been limited because of the large overhang of rigs stacked and crews idled during the downturn, which have limited the pricing power of drilling companies.
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Most of that capacity is already idled, so analysts and traders say they are more interested in other steps, which would have a bigger impact on supplies and prices in the short term.
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Significant comprehensive relief across all aluminum imports is needed to restart idled production for the approximately 85033 percent of U.S. smelters that have been forced to close their doors in the past decade.
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Judges have enjoined idled plants from being put back into service, but the judgment against Takahama was the first in which a facility that had successfully been restarted was ordered to shut down.
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Over 1,200 oil rigs have been idled in the United States over the last two years, and most oil companies have slashed their exploration budgets by more than 40 percent from 2014 levels.
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It would also allow services companies to put to use expensive equipment idled for years as Brazil's oil industry was hammered by low oil prices and a massive investigation into corruption at Petrobras.
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Rather than it being necessary to completely fix the health situation before the US can heal the economy, mobilizing idled workers should be part of how to get the health situation under control.
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The industry, which was idled on March 12, had initially said it hoped to resume performances on April 13, but now expects a reopening is more likely to be in May or June.
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Isabella was allowed inside to visit her daughter while her boyfriend and the others waited in Ms. Muñoz's S.U.V. The vehicle idled with the air-conditioning blasting in the South Texas summer sun.
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The industry, which was idled on March 12, had initially said it hoped to resume performances on April 13, but a reopening is now expected more likely to be in May or June.
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Now, if fears of further disruption in the Middle East lift global oil prices, that would ease pressure on the U.S. industry, and could prompt some companies to put restart idled drilling projects.
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China has banned the transport of live hogs in provinces where infections have been reported, a move that has idled traders, crowded farm pens with unsold pigs, and left slaughterhouses short of stock.
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The removal of 73,000 tonnes of Russian imports combined with spiking aluminum prices, in terms of the London Metal Exchange and local U.S. premiums, are a powerful incentive to refire long-idled potlines.
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The massive Airbus order contrasts starkly with the problems facing Boeing, whose bestselling jetliner, the 4003 Max, has been idled worldwide after being involved in two deadly crashes in less than five months.
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A high court in western Japan sided with residents last December to prevent the restart of a nuclear plant idled for scheduled maintenance, although lower court decisions have usually been turned down on appeal.
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Jamie Baker, airline analyst at J.P. Morgan Chase, said even if the government reopens soon, it could ding first-quarter airline revenues and said "idled workers are increasingly unlikely to plan lavish summer vacations."
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When the GM strike entered its fourth week on October 7, company officials and union negotiators were still fighting about wages, retirement benefits, and the fate of an idled Chevy factory in Lordstown, Ohio.
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Excess capacity in steel industry has been a hot-button issue for many G20 countries this year amid a slowdown in global demand that has led to a steel glut, layoffs and idled mills.
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The small U.S. producer is also weighing whether to restart its idled Horning mine in Pennsylvania, but would need to see prices stay high for a while in order to do so, he said.
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ArcelorMittal has idled a steel plant in Spain due to "extremely adverse" market conditions, a company spokesman said on Monday, as the world's biggest steelmaker becomes the latest victim of Europe's steel sector crisis.
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Traders warned that commercial stockpiling was unlikely to support prices over the longer term, with demand still weak, and stronger prices could tempt some to re-start idled capacity, adding to the supply glut.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A glut of idled river barges is clogging Mississippi River shorelines from St. Louis to New Orleans, leaving U.S. barge companies that haul grain, coal and other bulk goods counting their losses.
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Hundreds of drilling rigs have been idled in the Permian Basin since the price of crude dropped from its peak in mid-2014, pushing the basin's rig count down to just 130 in April.
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Isla has been largely idled due to a lack of crude shipments to the plant as PDVSA struggles with a production crisis due to lack of investments, a brain drain, crime and decaying infrastructure.
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An interesting contrarian indicator comes in the form of the share price of Century Aluminum, a prominent lobbyist for action against China aluminium imports and a domestic producer now promising to reactivate idled capacity.
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An interesting contrarian indicator comes in the form of the share price of Century Aluminum, a prominent lobbyist for action against China aluminum imports and a domestic producer now promising to reactivate idled capacity.
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A strike would immediately have idled aluminium smelters, fertiliser plants, ship yards and chemical factories, and could eventually have been extended to hit output of oil and gas, unions said ahead of the talks.
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Integrity Biofuels shutdown marks the tenth biodiesel facility to have idled this year after the lapse in the biodiesel credit, putting about 250 people out of work, according to the National Biodiesel Board (NBB).
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Credit...Grant Hindsley for The New York Times SEATTLE — Just after dawn on Thursday morning, a Microsoft shuttle bus idled at its regular stop in North Seattle — but no passengers were there to board.
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WASHINGTON/TORONTO (Reuters) - Under pressure from President Donald Trump, General Motors Co said on Wednesday it was in talks to sell an idled northeast Ohio plant to a cash-strapped electric truck-building company.
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On Tuesday, Boeing held a meeting in Amsterdam for European airlines to discuss new training for the Max, plans for a public affairs campaign and how to get idled planes ready to fly again.
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"I'm a little embarrassed because there's already fucking people here," Mike told the YouTube video diary he keeps before rinsing himself off as a line of shoppers idled nearby waiting for Target to open.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - LyondellBasell Industries is in the second year of a five-year program to demolish permanently idled units at its 263,776 barrel-per-day (bpd) Houston refinery, said sources familiar with plant operations.
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A local food truck serving catfish and hush puppies idled in the parking lot, offering an authentic hospitality that in other places the campaign had to create itself by hiring an ice cream truck.
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Of the new total, $7 billion would be invested directly in GM plants, with the rest going to joint ventures including a potential battery plant near the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that has been idled.
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A strike would immediately have idled aluminum smelters, fertilizer plants, ship yards and chemical factories, and could eventually have been extended to hit output of oil and gas, unions said ahead of the talks.
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The union's proposal to shift production from lower-wage Mexican factories to the idled US plants has been a non-starter for GM. In other words, the two sides are still very far apart.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tyson Foods Inc's hog processing plant in Logansport, Indiana returned to normal operations on Wednesday after resolving a production-related problem that idled the facility since midday on Monday, a company representative said.
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The decision will be a relief for Japan's nuclear operators who faced the risk of further delays in firing up mostly idled atomic generators after the 2011 Fukushima disaster if judges sided with local residents.
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A feared grain shortage was avoided due to ample stocks and a switch to trucks to replace idled trains, although traders say costs have spiralled and certain export loadings were transferred to other European countries.
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This means that the risk for iron ore imports is also biased toward weakness, with much depending on whether the domestic mines can restart, or whether costs and anti-pollution measures will keep them idled.
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The firm's lobbying fees have been growing exponentially in recent years, but even the high-grossing shops could not overcome the business climate of 2016, when official Washington was often idled by the presidential campaign.
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Meantime, Micron trimmed its spending plans and said it had idled some factory lines to bring its chip output in line with lower demand, helping keep profits flowing and a share buyback plan on track.
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Liancheng had been set to close all their capacity but has idled only about half since late 2015 after the local government in the northwestern province of Gansu agreed to cut electricity prices, he said.
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Services firm ProPetro Holding Corp recently told investors it would run up to 28% fewer frack spreads this quarter, while market leader Halliburton Co cut jobs at least twice this year and has idled equipment.
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One of the plants idled last year was Husky Energy's 38,000 bpd Superior, Wisconsin, refinery, which is projected to reopen in late 2020 following $400 million in repairs from an April 163 explosion and fire.
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GM also confirmed that it would build an electric pickup truck at a Detroit plant that had been "unallocated," and that it plans to build a new battery factory near an idled plant in Ohio.
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The sanctions prompted Citgo Aruba to put on hold a $685 million agreement with the government of Aruba, reached in 2016, to refurbish and reopen the idled refinery previously run by U.S. refiner Valero Energy.
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CHICAGO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Disruptions to air travel, manufacturing, supply chains and retail stores spread on Friday as Hurricane Matthew worked its way up Florida's Atlantic coast, leaving people and goods stranded and plants idled.
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But on a recent morning, as Mr. Shell idled his pickup truck in a cavernous warehouse still caked with river mud, there was one sign of a fresh start: The overhead lights came back on.
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One of the plants idled last year was Husky Energy's 26,000 bpd Superior, Wisconsin, refinery, which is projected to reopen in late 2020 following $400 million in repairs from an April 2018 explosion and fire.
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CALGARY, Alberta, Sept 0003 (Reuters) - First Cobalt Corp favors a quick restart of its idled cobalt refinery in Canada and will begin assessing the plant's condition next week, Chief Executive Trent Mell said on Monday.
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The coronavirus pandemic and the draconian quarantine measures to slow its spread have ground global commerce nearly to a halt, driving a huge real demand for borrowed dollars so that idled businesses can cover costs.
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"Rate cuts and fiscal stimulus can't open idled factories, lure quarantined people out of their homes or stop business from canceling conferences and travel," said Diane Swonk, an economist at the business consultancy Grant Thornton.
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A timeframe for production of the pickup and the complete closures of the other U.S. facilities was not disclosed by the union, however the three plants were already idled by the automaker earlier this year.
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Environmental group Greenpeace said in February that China's active steel capacity actually rose by 35 million tonnes in 2016 after the high-profile closure program focused mainly on shutting plants that had already been idled.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that he urged General Motors Co's chief executive to "do something quickly" to reopen the company's Lordstown, Ohio, plant that was idled more than a week ago.
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ORANJESTAD, May 13 (Reuters) - Aruba and Venezuelan PDVSA's refining unit Citgo Petroleum reached a deal to lease and restart an idled 235,000-barrel-per-day refinery, the government of the Caribbean island said late on Friday.
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It idled in the judicial doldrums until matters took a hopeful turn in 2009, when the Delhi High Court ruled that it could not be used to ban consensual relations between adults, without being unconstitutionally discriminatory.
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A Hanjin Shipping Co container vessel idled off the coast of Mexico after the company's bankruptcy has received permission to dock and unload cargo at the Port of Long Beach, industry and union officials said Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Glencore, one of the main creditors of Morocco's sole refinery, still has hopes the idled plant will restart so lenders can gradually recoup their money, despite repeated failures to get it up and running.
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It's still not absolutely certain how much iron ore capacity will be idled, or forced to run at lower production rates, over the winter period as part of efforts to limit air pollution from burning coal.
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But outside of the financial markets, the dynamic that unfolded was that steel mills increased output and plants that had been idled as part of China's plan to cut excess capacity were brought back to life.
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Lack of maritime crews to take PDVSA tankers idled due to unpaid shipping fees is also hampering oil deliveries between domestic ports and to the Caribbean, where PDVSA stores and ships much of its export barrels.
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Reporters inside the courtroom say that lawyers offered a preview to the testimony and evidence they plan to present during the trial, including that Fields allegedly idled in his car before he accelerated into the crowd.
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The run up in steel prices has been blamed for encouraging some idled steel mills to restart production, adding to a production glut in the country and exports of the metal, which is upsetting other countries.
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More than three-quarters of the United States aluminum smelting industry that existed five years ago will have been idled or shut down by this summer as imports have surged, according to the union's legal petition.
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First Cobalt Corp is in advanced talks with Canada's Ontario province to finance the $37.5 million required to restart its idled cobalt refinery, President and Chief Executive Officer Trent Mell said in an interview on Tuesday.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Motiva Enterprises shut the small crude distillation unit (CDU) and idled the second-largest CDU at its 607,000 barrel per day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas refinery, sources familiar with plant operations said on Friday.
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The second furnace to be idled is in the company's Great Lakes Works facility, located in Ecorse and River Rouge, Michigan, which has three blast furnaces with annual raw steel production capability of 3.8 million tons.
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A week ago, the big question about the tech industry's supply chain was how long it was going to take manufacturers in China to get back to full production after the coronavirus outbreak idled factories there.
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Another passenger on board, Scott Rodman, told CNBC that the plane idled on the tarmac for about two hours before health officials told some passengers that a man seated nearby had tested positive for the coronavirus.
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In an adjacent shack, a television blasted out a cricket game as gamblers cheered and some women with the chemically bleached complexions common here idled on a bench listening to Lil Uzi Vert on their smartphones.
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After a monthlong strike that has idled General Motors plants across the Midwest and South, union leaders are gathering on Thursday in Detroit to consider a deal that could send workers back to the assembly lines.
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To take one example of labor market weakness, underemployment among young college graduates is still elevated, with 9.9 percent "idled" or "sidelined," compared with 8.4 percent in 20073, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute.
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In further signs of the epidemic's disruptive effects, Britain and France advised all their citizens in mainland China to leave if they could, and South Korea's Hyundai automaker idled factories because of Chinese supply-chain problems.
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While he worked with it over the sink, getting the mud off her pink coat, Lynette idled in the spacious kitchen, stroking the dark teak surfaces, rattling the drawers open and closing them—so many gadgets!
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U.S. Steel on Wednesday said it would begin restarting one of two idled blast furnaces at its Granite City, Illinois, steel plant – a process that will take up to four months and could support 500 jobs.
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MZN20.6-22 MINERS: "Higher zinc prices have helped miners' profit margins, and this should work as an incentive to miners to speed up their pipeline of projects or restart idled operations," GFMS analysts said in a note.
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Since prices dropped in October, U.S. independents have idled 41 oil drilling rigs, bringing the nation's oil rig count to 834, the lowest level in 10 months, according to General Electric Co's Baker Hughes energy services firm.
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Brazil's auto industry has idled assembly lines and fired one in 10 workers over the past 0003 months, but inventories still climbed to nearly 300,000 unsold vehicles, enough to cover 50 days of sales, according to Fenabrave.
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A neighboring Caribbean refinery operated by PDVSA's U.S. unit Citgo Petroleum in Aruba has also remained idled since a project to refurbish it has not been able to move forward amid sanctions blocking funds for the revamp.
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Dennis Harbath, who manages the only smelter in America that produces the high-purity aluminium used in some fighter jets, is gratefully preparing to restart some idled production lines as soon as the tariffs are brought in.
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It takes some time to boost an existing mine's output, and even more time to restart idled pits, but the point is that within a few months it's likely that more cargoes will be heading to China.
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U.S. shale producers seem to be finally cracking under the strain from low prices, with more than 100 oil drilling rigs idled over the past month, and many producers now openly talking about producing less in 2016.
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MOSCOW — Pretty much all seasoned travelers know the frustration of flight delays — the time wasted puttering in an airport, waiting in a hotel room or, perhaps worst of all, stuck on the tarmac in an idled plane.
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United States Steel, which said it was restarting idled furnaces around the country in response to the tariffs, has filed objections against a slew of companies seeking exclusions, sometimes opposing dozens of requests from the same source.
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Gavin Newsom said the Grand Princess cruise ship, which has been idled at sea since Wednesday after passengers previously on board tested positive for COVID-19, will be brought to the port of Oakland some time Monday.
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The reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant automatically shut down in response to the earthquake, but the tsunami overtopped the plant's seawall, stalling the backup generators that were providing vital cooling to the idled reactors.
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Of the new total, $7 billion would be invested directly in GM plants, with the rest going to joint ventures including a potential battery plant near the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that has been idled, the source said.
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Citgo and Aruba in 2016 agreed to a 25-year contract to refurbish and reopen the facility, which has remained idled since 2012, when its former operator, U.S.-based Valero Energy Corp, abandoned it over low profits.
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Such a deal would also allow oil services companies to put to use expensive equipment idled for years during the downturn in Brazil's oil industry, hammered by low oil prices and a massive corruption scandal at Petrobras.
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But on the other side of the state, workers at a now-idled General Motors plant in Lordstown are searching for work after the automaker said there was little demand for the sedans that were produced there.
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And GM itself halted a second Canadian assembly line due to the lack of parts for vehicles being built in its plant in Oshawa, Ontario, bringing the number of idled workers at the plant to about 2,000.
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The refining capacity that has been idled by the storm is estimated to be about 11.2 percent of the U.S. total, according to a Reuters report, while the initial impact appears to be felt in gasoline prices.
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There is also uncertainty over an arbitration case between DONG Energy and a consortium of Technip and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering over who bears responsibility for construction errors concerning an offshore platform for the idled Hejre field.
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U.S. energy firms idled eight working oil rigs, the first reduction in three weeks, as producers followed through on plans to slash spending, energy services firm Baker Hughes Co said in its closely followed report on Friday.
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U.S. steel makers have said the domestic industry has 30 million tons of annual idled capacity and can ramp up to meet demand - which totaled around 107 million tons in 2017, 36 million of which was imported.
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GM idled these plants during its previous contract, declaring the plants "unallocated," meaning the plant would have no product to build, instead of outright closing them in order to avoid having to negotiate their closure with the union.
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"Although many mines have been idled or closed, the effect on markets has been more than offset by expanding production from lower cost producers, which effectively impeded the market from finding its way back to balance," IEA said.
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Tankers carrying liquefied natural gas however are facing the same fate as bulk shippers with many parked and idled in and around Singapore, one of the world's biggest trading hubs for the fuel, reported Reuters earlier this month.
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Output of HFCS is set to jump 7 percent this year, according to commodities information service Zhuochuang, as cheap corn from a sell-down of the country's giant stockpiles encourages producers to boost output or restart idled capacity.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - First Cobalt Corp aims to restart an idled cobalt refinery in Canada within two years and is in talks to supply the battery-grade product to four leading automakers, chief executive Trent Mell said on Wednesday.
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One recent Saturday on Governors Island, with a glorious gray dome of clouds covering New York Harbor, a Mister Softee truck idled on the car deck of the Lt. Samuel S. Coursen as passengers boarded the 6 p.m.
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This means that some of the idled vessels may have to be scrapped in yards in countries such as India or Bangladesh, although shippers say the current cost of the journey may be more than their scrap value.
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LNG tanker Al Sahla, which was supposed to head to Hazira in India on April 1 after loading a cargo from Qatar, is lying idled at Ras Laffan anchorage, said Rebecca Chia, analyst with data intelligence firm Kpler.
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The striking workers are asking for a pay increase and for the reopening of idled plants, among other things, and they are arguing that G.M. is now profitable enough (having earned $8.1 billion last year) to afford both.
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The workers want higher wages and a narrowing of the disparity in pay for new hires and longtime workers, as well as better healthcare and a plan to keep idled plants open, according to the New York Times.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Owners of an idled oil refinery in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, that was once among the world's largest, plan to invest $21 billion to refurbish and restart a portion of the plant, they said on Monday.
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SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese independent refiner Shandong Haiyou Petrochemical Group aims to restart its key crude oil unit in June, a year after it was idled following a bankruptcy filing, according to four sources with knowledge of the matter.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - The owners of an idled oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands that once ranked among the world's largest have hired a former Hess Corp executive closely acquainted with the facility to oversee its return to service.
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It's mainly low-quality furnaces that are being targeted for closure by Chinese authorities as part of plans to shut at least 50 million tonnes of capacity this year, which follows on from 65 million tonnes idled last year.
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Similarly, Alcoa's restart of idled capacity at its Warrick smelter in Indiana was announced at the end of 2017, before Commerce had submitted its report, and was driven, the company has since stressed, by plant-specific economics not tariffs.
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The announcement on Thursday came less than two weeks after members of the United Automobile Workers approved a new contract with G.M., ending a strike in which the future of the factory, idled this year, was a central issue.
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Then it was halftime, and as the crowd was energized by a speech by the former coach Tom Coughlin, who was inducted into the Giants' Ring of Honor, the players idled around the field, waiting as Coughlin went long.
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That is a big change from pre-recession times, when the domestic automakers were too often awash in overproduction, or saddled with union contracts that funneled idled workers into so-called job banks with nearly full pay and benefits.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A local Japanese governor on Friday asked Kyushu Electric Power to temporarily suspend the Sendai nuclear plant, one of two operating in the nation, further clouding efforts by the government and utilities to restart more idled reactors.
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Century Aluminum Co Chief Executive Michael Bless told Reuters on Thursday that the Commerce Department recommendations for aluminum tariffs or quotas would allow U.S. primary aluminum producers to restore all of "what's left" of their idled capacity to production.
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Farther south, the road along the Euphrates is strewn with the remnants of an economy blown back decades by the war: a gutted sugar factory, an idled cotton mill, a train station littered with cars blown off their tracks.
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Bankrupt PES Holdings LLC is seeking court approval for a deal to keep some of its unionized workers at its idled Philadelphia oil refinery on as caretakers that gives them monthly bonuses in exchange for eliminating nearly all benefits.
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Trump invoked a political battle from 2018-19 in demanding that GM reclaim an Ohio factory that it had idled in 2018 and later sold in 2019 to an electric-vehicle manufacturer, and use that plant to make ventilators.
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If ratified by the U.A.W.'s rank and file, the contract will end a strike that has idled 34 factories in seven states for more than a month and has cost G.M. an estimated $123 billion in operating profit.
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That is a big change from pre-recession times, when the domestic automakers were too often awash in overproduction, or saddled with union contracts that funneled idled workers into so-called job banks with nearly full pay and benefits.
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The issues hit home for Hall, who is now a permanent employee but was recently forced to move about four hours away when she transferred from GM's Lordstown Assembly plant in Ohio, which was idled in March, to Flint.
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Curacao aims to find a new operator for the refinery, currently leased by Venezuela's state-run PDVSA but mostly idled since the firm has struggled to supply the island with oil amid U.S. sanctions imposed since January and mounting debts.
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Only two of Japan's 43 commercial nuclear reactors have been generating power, illustrating the slow restart process since all reactors were eventually idled in the wake of the meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011.
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He idled around, doing what any of us would do if we were slowly realizing we had been stood up: shoving loaves of bread and mac 'n' cheese into his mouth, chugging carafes of Chardonnay, leaving nervous voicemails for his lady.
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Official negotiations over Greece's bailout review have been idled during the IMF and World Bank meetings, but the debate over whether to provide more debt relief to Athens in exchange for further budget cuts is expected to continue on the sidelines.
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Isla has been mostly idled due to a lack of crude supplied by PDVSA, but some of its units restarted last month in an attempt to resume a portion of its crude processing capacity and produce finished fuel for the island.
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Now, the top members of a House subcommittee are calling for a plan to maintain American leadership in AI. Why it matters: As the White House idled, China implemented a national plan that is propelling its AI research and implementation.
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Byron Pope, an oilfield analyst for Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co, said, "The magnitude of the improvement in the Completions and Production margin performance" was encouraging, adding that it was good to hear the company publicly acknowledge that it has idled equipment.
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With eight reactors running and one more set to come online in November, nuclear has this year overtaken non-hydro renewables in power output for the first time since the 23 catastrophe, when all of the country's nuclear plants were idled.
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Citgo and Aruba in 2016 agreed to a 25-year contract to refurbish and reopen the 209,000-barrel-per-day refinery, which has been idled since 2012, when its former operator, U.S.-based Valero Energy Corp, abandoned it over low profits.
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Beyond those nearly 9 million tonnes, a potential suspension of a Renuka's Madhu plant as well as two plants operated by Abengoa Bioenergia Brasil, part of Spain's Abengoa, could result in an additional 12.5 million tonnes in capacity being idled.
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In Virginia, Dominion Energy ended several maintenance contracts it had with GE this year when it mothballed a large gas-fired plant built by companies GE later acquired and idled seven other coal and natural gas units in the state.
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ORANJESTAD, April 1 (Reuters) - Aruba and Venezuelan PDVSA's refining unit Citgo Petroleum postponed a deadline to reach a final agreement to lease and restart an idled 235,000-barrel-per-day refinery, the government of the Caribbean island said late on Thursday.
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TORONTO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - First Cobalt Corp is in advanced talks with Canada's Ontario province to finance the $37.5 million required to restart its idled cobalt refinery, President and Chief Executive Officer Trent Mell said in an interview on Tuesday.
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"MPC would like to clarify that units that had been briefly idled (Tuesday) at its Galveston Bay refinery began restarting earlier (Wednesday) and will increase throughput as pipeline and other transportation logistics continue to improve," said Marathon spokesman Jamal Kheiry.
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Television footage showed images, increasingly familiar in America, of bewildered students streaming out of the building with hands raised in the air, weaving their way between heavily armed, helmeted police officers, as a fire truck and other emergency vehicles idled nearby.
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The 90,000-bpd PSLA-7 CDU was the last of the refinery's four CDUs to return to production after being idled by a fire in a natural gas pipeline that supplied fuel to the heaters on the CDUs, the sources said.
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Many U.S. ethanol plants have slashed production over the past week or idled entirely as the coronavirus outbreak cut into fuel consumption and cratered margins to refine the corn-based fuel, the head of a biofuel trade group said on Thursday.
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A police van idled and a single piece of yellow caution tape flapped from a nearby tree as Benjamin Vanbrackle pulled his shirt down to show the fresh scar that wrapped around his neck to the top of his chest.
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He received a police officer's salary from the Palestinian Authority, though like many others on the payroll of the authority, idled years ago in Gaza for political reasons, he did not actually put on a uniform and go to work.
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The United Auto Workers union said on Friday it had made progress on some key issues as it works to try to reach a contract with General Motors to resolve a nearly three-week-old strike that has idled 48,000 workers.
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NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Groups vying for the idled Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery have entered the second phase of the bidding process and are gearing up for visits to the plant, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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As of June 18, 75 tankers were idled in and around Venezuela's two largest oil ports, Jose and the Paraguana Refining Center, 20 percent of which were waiting to load crude and refined products for export, according to Reuters data.
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China's imports in the April to June period were not only affected by the curtailing of shipments from Brazil, though, as a tropical cyclone in late March idled mines and ports in northwestern Australia, the main producing area in the world's top exporter.
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LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A Hanjin Shipping Co container vessel idled off the coast of Mexico after the company's bankruptcy has received permission to dock and unload cargo at the Port of Long Beach, industry and union officials said Friday.
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Caro made her breakthrough critical hit Whale Rider in 2002, following it up with the star-studded North Country (Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek) in 2005, but — as is typical for female directors in Hollywood — her career largely idled after that.
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It seems that the new protocol is to let him say what he wants out loud and then give it a little tweak:On Thursday, as his plane idled on the tarmac in Miami, Mr. Trump spotted Air Force One outside his window.
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U.S. producers, responding to lower crude prices and pipeline constraints, have idled 20 oil drilling rigs in the Permian since December, bringing the region's oil rig count to 473, the lowest since June, according to General Electric Co's Baker Hughes energy services firm.
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The Financial Times reported that thousands of workers at local coal mines here have taken to the streets in protest of late after local mines were apparently idled as part of a plan from Beijing to restructure and downsize the Chinese coal sector.
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Any sign of idled capacity returning would raise concerns that smelters will not keep inefficient capacity shut to support domestic prices, industry sources in China said, which would weigh on local prices and prompt exports of aluminum products, particularly semi-finished material.
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Although China cut some 65 million tonnes of steel capacity in 2016 and aims to cut another 50 million tonnes this year, its trading partners say much of the cuts cover already idled capacity and that the problem of unfairly traded steel remains.
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MIDLAND, Texas/HOUSTON (Reuters) - As crude prices plummeted last summer, Steve Pruett, chief executive of a small west Texas oilfield developer, idled a drilling rig, opting to pay $21,2150 a day to store it rather than dig more wells and risk bigger losses.
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"The magnitude of the improvement in the Completions and Production margin performance" was encouraging, said Byron Pope, an oilfield analyst for Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. He added that it was good to hear the company publicly acknowledge that it has idled equipment.
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It was idle for three and a half months and ran at half capacity for another three and a half months before again being idled by a March 18 fire that broke out during an attempt to restart the unit at full capacity.
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Around 95 percent of the idled Baytex wells have been turned back on, roughly half of them in May and the rest in June, said the source, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
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As Alcoa's Harvey pointed out, even if every single tonne of idled U.S. smelter capacity were restarted, unlikely in itself, the United States "would still need to import the vast majority of its required primary aluminum, with approximately 60 percent from Canada".
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The state's attorney general and Department of Environmental Quality are asking the federal government to reject Plains All American Pipeline's permit for the pipelines under the St. Clair River, saying that very little is known about the safety of the idled pipes.
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GM also produces certain models of its highly profitable Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups at a third plant in Mexico, but the company idled that facility last week and furloughed 6,000 workers due to parts shortages as a result of the strike.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - ExxonMobil Corp returned to production the large crude distillation unit (CDU) at its 502,500-barrel-per-day (bpd) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refinery on Wednesday night after it was idled following a fire in another unit, said sources familiar with plant operations.
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The government-owned refinery has operated under a contract with Venezuelan state-run oil firm PDVSA that lasts through December, but it began a search for a replacement last year after a dispute between PDVSA and U.S. oil producer ConocoPhillips kept the plant idled.
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Mosaic, the world's largest producer of finished phosphate products, cut its dividend 239.2 percent, idled a Florida phosphate plant and said it would focus on repaying debt after it completes a $211-billion purchase late this year of Brazil fertilizer facilities from Vale SA VALE183.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California energy officials intent on reopening a major natural gas storage field idled by the country's worst-ever methane leak have resorted to scare tactics in raising the prospect of looming power outages in Los Angeles, utility critics said on Tuesday.
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Under BP's tolling agreement with Limetree Bay Refining LLC, owner of the idled Hovensa refinery, BP will supply the facility with crude and sell its products, low-sulfur fuels that will meet an International Maritime Organization mandate in 2020, it said in a statement.
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But he said the restart of some idled domestic mills would help alleviate any supply constraints by late this year, citing U.S. Steel Corp's restart of its Granite City, Illinois, blast furnace operations, which should add 103 million tons of raw steel output annually.
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Currently, only two reactors are generating power and the pace of restarts has been slower than many expected as all units need to be relicensed after being idled in the wake of the meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011.
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Capacity has so far been reduced to 133,357 MW. "We intend to at least halve the number of positions until 2026," a PreussenElektra spokesman said, confirming an earlier newspaper report and citing the phasing out of plants and the dismantling of already idled installations.
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I didn't tell him about the time my dad pulled our Honda alongside his limousine on the West Side Highway and how, as both cars idled at a red light, I reached through the open window, across the broken white line, and shook his hand.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 235.8 (Reuters) - The main U.S. producer of high-purity aluminum used in military aircraft is poised to begin restarting idled production lines at its smelter in eastern Kentucky and recall some 22017 workers if President Donald Trump imposes aluminum import curbs.
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A return by either Albras or Becancour could provide some future lift, while the restart of idled U.S capacity and Aluminium Bahrain's new 540,000-tonne-per-year Potline 6 will exert greater influence over run-rates as they build momentum over the coming months.
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Earlier on Monday, a Citgo unit on the Caribbean island of Aruba, said a project to refurbish and reopen a 209,000-barrel-per-day idled refinery rented by the company since 2016 was put on hold and remaining employees would be laid off by Feb.
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Fiat Chrysler plans to revive Mack Avenue Engine II, which has been idled since 2012, as a vehicle assembly plant to provide additional capacity to build the redesigned Grand Cherokee, including a new three-row version, said the sources, who asked not to be identified.
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Green Plains idled until further notice its facility in Superior, Iowa, and soon will shut down the plant in Lakota, Iowa, while the company's plant in Fairmont, Minnesota, was running at half of its capacity, said the sources, who asked not to be named.
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Under the terms of Prepa's $9 billion of revenue bonds, the utility's power plants and other assets are not supposed to be idled for months at a time; they are to produce and distribute electricity, generating revenue that serves as collateral for the debt.
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A Burger King restaurant was open in Monkey Junction, an unincorporated part of New Hanover County, and Tony Harker idled in a pickup truck, having been lured by the smell of fast food as he was heading to repair his mother-in-law's plumbing.
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Indeed, during periods when senators negotiated how to proceed, the chief justice idled in a back room reading briefs or, at least once, playing poker with aides — until the sergeant-at-arms caught him and gently reminded him that he was breaking Senate rules.
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The companies will invest up to $2.3 billion in the joint venture and, starting in the middle of next year, they plan to begin construction of a battery factory in Lordstown, Ohio, where GM idled (and later sold) a vehicle-assembly plant earlier this year.
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"Although production at the mine has been idled indefinitely since the end of 2013 ... the royalty rate reduction would be retroactive," the Bureau of Land Management wrote in an opinion to Colorado officials, who have a say in the decision since they share coal revenue.
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That is a far cry from the 54 running before 254 - all of which were idled after the Fukushima disaster - but more than analysts and experts expected, considering it seemed at the time like the end of the road for the country's nuclear industry.
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General Motors, one of the companies on the zero-tax list, recently idled a large plant near Youngstown that produced the Chevrolet Cruze, a decision that helped increase the company's stock price even as G.M. paid no federal taxes on $1003 billion in income.
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The company said on Thursday that there was no change in the status of the tailings dam that was idled in 2012, but decided to transfer the families after updating its evaluation of potential risk areas in the case of an accident with the structure.
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After a last-minute flurry of negotiations as the convoys idled at the entrances to the towns, trucks and sport utility vehicles began rolling in, Pawel Krzysiek, a spokesman for the Syria branch of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said by text message from Madaya.
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Century Aluminum has restarted idled capacity at its Hawesville smelter in Kentucky and is eyeing the potential to do the same at its Mt Holly plant in South Carolina, while the New Madrid smelter returned to partial life last year under new owner Magnitude 7 Metals.
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MODEST, CONDITIONAL RAMP-UP A U.N.-backed unity government's move to Tripoli last month raised hopes that Libya could restart idled fields and reopen export terminals, and the NOC in Tripoli says it could quickly double production to over 700,000 bpd, if political and security conditions stabilize.
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To stem the loss, Vale in October announced plans to restart three pelletising plants in Brazil that have been idled for several years: the 7 million tonnes-per-year Sao Luis plant in mid-2018, and two smaller plants, Tubarao I and II, possibly in early 2018.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday he would not declare a national emergency "right now" to end a standoff over border security that has idled large swaths of the U.S. government, all but guaranteeing that he will preside over the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
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One bus stop, on 560th Street between Ninth and 10th Avenues, has brought constant honking as buses have idled and slowed traffic, as well as piles of trash left behind by passengers, according to Pat Forbes, a cybersecurity executive who lives across the street from the stop.
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MODEST, CONDITIONAL RAMP-UP A U.N.-backed unity government's move to Tripoli last month raised hopes that Libya could restart idled fields and reopen export terminals, and the NOC in Tripoli says it could quickly double production to over 700,000 bpd, if political and security conditions stabilise.
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The idled plants have become an issue in the negotiations, with workers also pushing G.M. to improve wages, add jobs at other facilities, pay a greater share of employee health care costs, and close or narrow the difference between pay rates for new hires and veteran workers.
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Monday's alert was the first big test of power generators' ability to meet heightened energy demands in the greater Los Angeles area without natural gas supplies normally furnished by the now-crippled Aliso Canyon gas storage field, effectively idled since a major well rupture there last fall.
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Norman Brokaw, who rose from teenage mail clerk to top mogul at the William Morris talent agency, where he broke ground in the fledgling television industry for idled Hollywood stars and a black stand-up comic named Bill Cosby, died on Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Isla refinery, which has operated under a contract with Venezuelan state-run oil firm PDVSA that lasts through December, began a search for a PDVSA replacement after a dispute last year between the Venezuelan firm and U.S. oil producer ConocoPhillips left the plant idled amid asset seizure attempts.
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"We left at 4 in the morning; as far as we've gone, it's been bumper to bumper," said Linda Caldwell as she idled at a gas station in Ridgeland, S.C. The 259-mile journey to that point from her home in Daytona Beach, she said, had taken 12 hours.
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Iron ore is still down from its peak this year of $125.20 a tonne, reached in early July amid a supply crunch caused by mine closures in Brazil in the wake of a fatal dam burst and a tropical cyclone that idled some production in top shipper Australia.
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On Thursday, a helicopter flew testing kits to a cruise liner idled off the coast of California and barred from docking in San Francisco after at least 35 people developed flu-like symptoms aboard the ship, which has been linked to two other confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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"That was the understanding — that if we gave up the concessions back in 2007 and 313, that once G.M. got back on their feet, we would slowly get those things back," said Tammy Daggy, who worked at the now-idled G.M. plant in Lordstown, Ohio, for nearly 25 years.
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The plan is to build the factory near Lordstown, OH, the site of a GM plant that was idled in early 2019 and that later became a contentious issue for the company and President Donald Trump, in addition to being a factor in the lengthy UAW strike this year.
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GM employees, who are represented by the United Auto Workers union, also want the company to reopen idled factories to keep jobs in the US. From Georgia to Michigan, GM workers have been picketing around the clock, closing 30 factories and suspending work at more that two dozen warehouses.
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The report also said ZTE is hopeful that the United States and China will be able to soon reach a deal that would remove the ban and has a plan in place allowing the telecoms firm to "swing idled factories into action within hours" of the ban being officially lifted.
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Kevin Hassett, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, acknowledged on Friday that there had been nervousness inside the White House that the partial federal government shutdown, which idled hundreds of thousands of federal workers and disrupted countless private businesses, could cause growth to stall in the first quarter.
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Steel intends to source slabs from its own domestic facilities * Blast furnaces and steelmaking facilities will remain idled * United states steel - plans to take periodic outages at Gary works , great lakes works, Mon valley works to improve capabilities and reliability of hot strip mills Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Amazon, after all, has made major promises like this before—in 210, it pledged to power all of its operations with clean energy, then idled for years around the halfway mark, announcing no new plans until employee pressure and critical reports of its progress apparently spurred it to (re)action.
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Aluminum Corp of China's (Chinalco) Liancheng smelter is unlikely to reopen some 250,000 tonnes of idled capacity this year because Chinalco last year agreed to cut production, said a source with direct knowledge of the smelter's operations who declined to be identified as he is not authorized to speak to the media.
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GM also summarized "planned investments of $7.7 billion," including bringing a electric pickup to the previously "unallocated" Detroit-Hamtramck plant, $4 billion of investment in existing manufacturing, and the development of a new battery factory near an idled Lordstown, Ohio, plant that is being sold to an electric truck company Lordstown Motors.
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New York (CNN Business)As striking workers picketed idled General Motors plants for a 210th day on Wednesday, negotiators for the company and the United Auto Workers union made progress in reaching a deal to end the nation's biggest strike in more than a decade, according to people familiar with the talks.
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The ruling by the Hiroshima District Court, which is similar to the Osaka High Court decision on Tuesday, is a relief for Japan's nuclear operators at a time when they face the risk of further delays in firing up mostly idled atomic generators if judges side with local residents worried about safety.
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In a report issued in May after a two-year investigation of a 2015 explosion at an 86-year-old Torrance, California, refinery then owned by Exxon, the CSB said the company lacked a procedure for operating a fluidic catalytic cracking unit in an idled mode, as was being done when the explosion took place.
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" An exception ... The WashPost's Erica Werner writes from Akron that Ohio workers love the tariffs despite their potential effect on statewide politics: "Although few argue that Ohio's steel production industry can be restored to its glory days, steelworkers here hold out optimism that some idled facilities could be restarted and some jobs brought back.
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And it was true that the fields of the mountain had all the week idled in what seemed a Continental languor, and the lower hills east were a Provençal blue in the haze, and the lake when he lowered himself into it was so warm by the evening it didn't even make his midge bites sting.
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On Tuesday, the South Korean carmaker Hyundai said it had idled factories because of Chinese supply-chain problems; Japan said it had quarantined a cruise ship with 3,700 people aboard because a passenger had tested positive for the virus; and Macau, a gambling hub and semiautonomous Chinese enclave, said it would shut its casinos for two weeks.
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Travel restrictions to prevent the spread of the disease, have idled much of the world's second-largest economy and choked key elements of President Xi Jinping's signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of railways, ports and highways.. Officials attending bilateral meetings on Wednesday night were asked not to wear masks, but hand sanitiser and disinfecting wipes were available.
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On Monday morning, tens of thousands of General Motors workers went on strike when the UAW failed to cut a new deal with the company that made $2.4 billion in profit in just the second quarter of this year, and a key issue in play has been the potential reopening of an idled plant in Lordstown, Ohio.
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If Pemex is left without enough ethane, it would have to shut down the so-called cracking plants at its two petrochemical facilities, and the cost of re-starting them after being idled one week would be some $2.6 million, according to comments from the head of Pemex's ethylene unit, Alejandro Cruz, at a board meeting in December.
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Many electric arc furnace plants have been idled and capacity utilization across the 294-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) grouping has fallen to less than 503 percent from around 250 percent following a 240 regional free trade agreement with China that cut tariffs on a raft of goods, including steel, said Roberto Cola, president of the ASEAN Iron and Steel Council.
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It also caused layoffs at other GM plants in Mexico and Canada that had to shut down because of the disruption in their supply chains, as well as at many of the 2000,26 US suppliers who provide auto parts and other goods and services to GM. That may have idled as many as 210,000 additional workers at those companies, according to estimates.
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Role of the LCS overseas And less than a year ago, the Navy was touting the role the LCS would play in regions like the South China Sea, where China is building facilities on reclaimed land sites in the Spratly Islands, and where the ship now idled in Singapore, the Fort Worth, made an important show-the-flag patrol last May.
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Meanwhile, the nation's bridges are left to crack, highways buckle, tracks heave, illicit drugs proliferate, medications grow ever-more expensive; diplomats scratch their heads and hind parts, idled by kingly disinterest, allies wonder whether we have their backs or should watch their backs, enemies salivate, polar ice caps slip into the sea, and poor, poor Doral Country Club -- under Trump's storied management -- continues, like the rest of us, to struggle.
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