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MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Mexican mining and metals concern Industrias Penoles SAB (PE&OLES.MX) said Friday it has declared force majeure on contractual commitments as a strike at its silver and lead refinery continues into its second month.

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CARACAS, Venezuela, March 13 (UPI) — PetroChina said it had received government permission to build a new refinery in southern China to process heavy crude oil from Venezuela.

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Workers at the Holly refinery in Woods Cross have reached an accord on a new labor contract that calls for them to receive a 3 percent increase in their wages for each of the next three years.

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A fire ignited Friday afternoon around 2:30 p.m. at the Tate and Lyle corn refinery plant in Loudon, according to Loudon Police.

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HOUSTON, March 13 (Reuters) – ConocoPhillips said Friday it was restarting its 139,000 barrel per day Los Angeles-area refinery in Wilmington, California after the plant was shut by a power outage on Wednesday. “The refinery is in restart mode and plans to resume normal operations over the next few days,” Conoco spokesman Bill Stephens said in a statement. The refinery was safely shut down after …

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March 13 (Bloomberg) — Ivory Coast is in talks with Venezuela-based Arevenca to build a $7 billion refinery in the western port of San Pedro, Fraternite-Matin reported.