Petroleum Coke News Updates 

• Lawsuit Could Complicate Permitting of Texas Power Plants

• Eastman Delays Beaumont Gasifier Indefinitely

• Valero Plans to Shut Down its Delaware City Coker and Gasifier Units

• BP Whiting Awards DTE Coal Services Petcoke Terminal Service Contract

• API Says ACES Will Hurt U.S. Refining

• Flying J Down to 8 Bidders for Bakersfield Refinery

• Saudi Aramco, Total Award Contracts for Jubail Refinery

• Valero to Idle Aruba Refinery Due to Poor Margins

• Big Rivers Electric, E.ON U.S, and Aluminum Smelters Agree to "Unwind" Lease Agreement

• Valero Corpus Christi Coker Idled

• Primary Aluminum Output at Rusal Threatened by Russian Power Plant Accident

• Huntsman Inks "Stalking Horse" Agreement for Tronox Assets

• Ormet to Operate Four Potlines through 2009

• Anglesey Aluminum Officially Shuts down Operations

• Goa Carbon Announces Plans for a new Calcined Petroleum Coke Plant

• Koppers to Expand Petroleum Pitch Business

• Rain Fully Divests from Kuwaiti Joint Venture, Petroleum Coke Industries Company

• Greenland Delays Ruling on Proposed JV with Alcoa for 350,000 MT/yr Smelting Complex

• China Anode-Grade GPC Update: Prices are Stabilizing

• Hydro's Neuss Smelter to Remain Open Pending German Government Assessment of Future Aid Package