Yongcheng Coal & Electricity Holding Group and Sinopecentered a technical agreement involving hydraulic fluids used at YongCheng coal-washing facilities. The Asia-Pacific region, and India in particular, leads the world in demand for palm methyl ester, which is used primarily in automotive lubricants formulations and has been forecasted by Zion Market Research to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 5.1 percent worldwide.