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The World of Petroleum and Bitumen

The November Issue (part 2) of WPB Journal

The November Issue (part 2) of WPB Journal

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Malaysia’s VTTI Bitumen Expansion Alters Regional Infrastructure Logistics and Repositions Southeast Asia in Global Asphalt Supply Networks

According to WPB, the commissioning of VTTI’s expanded bitumen-handling and storage operations in Malaysia marks a significant technical and logist...

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Iran’s Bitumen Network Faces Sharp Sanctions Blow

According to WPB, it was not the scale of the announcement that redirected observers’ attention, but the unusually precise timing: on November 2025...

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The Bitumen Horizon Reimagined: How Chennai’s New Derivatives Plant Quietly Reshapes a Global Industry

According to WPB, the first indications that the world’s bitumen landscape was shifting did not arrive with fanfare, nor with the ceremonious decla...

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Russia Invests in Kirov’s New Bitumen Facilities to Strengthen Eurasian Roads

According to WPB, the recent turbulence in Russia’s bitumen landscape—highlighted most visibly through the contrasting situations of Kirov’s ex...

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Three Quiet Events Shaping the Subtle Transformation of the World’s Bitumen Landscape

According to WPB, No single event defines the global trajectory of infrastructure materials, yet a strange harmony emerges when observing three seemi...

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Bitumen Under Pressure: Global Oil Shifts Reshape the Market

According to WPB, Recent fluctuations and structural shifts in global crude oil supply are reverberating far beyond mere price volatility, and their ...

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Flux Shift in Africa, Becomes a Bitumen’s New Global Pivot!

According to WPB, The global movement of materials often appears slow and predictable, but occasionally an infrastructural decision in a seemingly di...

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Beyond the Drum of Bitumen: What Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, China, India, and Kazakhstan Revealed in the Final Days of 2025

According to WPB, It is not always the dramatic disasters or the grandiose megaprojects that reveal the true state of a country’s infrastructure; s...

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Obscured black stream — How an East African Oil Pipeline May Reshape Bitumen Markets Worldwide

According to WPB, In mid‑2025, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a 1,443‑kilometer pipeline stretching from Uganda to the Tanzanian c...

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How Bitumen Quietly Reengineered Itself at the Heart of Global Megaprojects in Late 2025

According to WPB, Bitumen, a material long overshadowed by the monumental structures it helps support, has re-emerged in late 2025 as an unexpectedly...

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Reinventing Bitumen Performance with Vacuum Residue: A Comprehensive Insight into Durability, Rejuvenation, and Sustainable Asphalt Solutions

According to WPB, In the world of modern infrastructure, bitumen plays a silent yet indispensable role. Its applications extend beyond mere road surf...

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Intelligent Asphalt: How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping the Molecular Logic of Bitumen and the Future of Road Engineering

According to WPB, the story of bitumen is as ancient as civilization itself—used in Babylonian construction, Egyptian mummification, and Persian wa...

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The Bitumen Imperative: Why Canada Is Quietly Shifting Its Pipeline Vision Toward the Pacific Ocean

According to WPB, Canada has entered a decisive phase in its long and complicated relationship with bitumen, that dense and stubborn hydrocarbon extr...

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Bitumen: The Hidden Pillar of Global Development and Infrastructure in 2025

According to WPB, in the closing stretch of November 2025, a quiet but consequential transformation unfolded within the global energy and constructio...

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Sealing the Future: How Sika’s Acquisition of Gulf Seal Signals a New Era for Bituminous Membrane Innovation

According to WPB, in November 2025, a landmark change echoed through the industry. Sika AG, a global leader in specialty chemicals, announced its acq...

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Reinventing the Black Gold: The Emerging Hydrochemolytic Revolution and Its Deep Implications for the Future of Bitumen

According to WPB, Bitumen has long been treated as the forgotten sibling of the petroleum family—dense, silent, and overlooked in favor of lighter,...

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Brazil’s Post-Salt Oil Discovery Unveils Hidden Bitumen Treasure That Could Redefine Road Materials Across the Continent

According to WPB, new oil discovery in the post‑salt layer of Brazil’s Campos Basin by Petrobras company has stirred global energy markets, promp...

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How the AIZO–K2 Green Bitumen Alliance Signals a Global Transition in Materials, Energy, and Infrastructure

According to WPB, the recent announcement of a collaboration between AIZO Group and K2 Bitumen to develop a green bitumen production facility in Sara...

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Global Repercussions of Russia’s Declining Bitumen Output in 2025

According to WPB, Russia’s measurable decline in bitumen production during the first three quarters of 2025 represents a shift with consequences th...

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Global Bitumen Industry Under Political and Environmental Pressure

According to WPB, the global bitumen industry is entering a period of profound structural transformation as political forces, environmental pressures...

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