LyondellBasell’s PO/TBA Project Installs Major Equipment
Construction of LyondellBasell’s propylene oxide, tertiary butyl alcohol plant continues to progress with the installation of its largest pieces of equipment, such as this 25-story-tall distillation tower being set in place at the Channelview site. Once in operation, the PO/TBA plant will be the largest of its kind in the world.
- LyondellBasell PR
- June 25, 2020
Honeywell Process Controls Improving Operator Efficiency And Productivity At Russian Refinery
Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) today announced that its Experion® HS process automation system has been implemented at Kuban Oil and Gas Company’s Ilsky Refinery, one of Russia's largest refineries.
- Honeywell PR
- July 11, 2016
Idemitsu Kosan's merger talks with founding family end without agreement
Talks between Japan's Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd and its founding family on Monday did not yield any agreement regarding the family's opposition to the oil refiner's proposal to buy rival Showa Shell Sekiyu KK, the family's lawyer said.
- Reuters - Osamu Tsukimori
- July 11, 2016
Iran sees fire-hit petchem plant back online within three weeks
Iran expects most units at its Bu Ali Sina petrochemicals complex to resume operations within three weeks, after a fire was extinguished early on Saturday, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted as saying by his ministry's website, Shana.
- Reuters - Dubai newsroom
- July 9, 2016
LNG Canada Announces It Will Delay Final Investment Decision
LNG Canada announces that its joint venture participants – Shell, PetroChina, Mitsubishi Corporation and Kogas – have decided to delay a final investment decision on LNG Canada that was planned for end 2016.
- LNG Canada PR
- July 11, 2016
Chevron Approves Next Major Tengiz Expansion Project in Kazakhstan
Chevron to expand the Tengiz Project. The project will raise TCO’s total production to approximately 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. WPMP maximizes the value of existing TCO facilities by extending the production plateau and keeping existing plants producing at full capacity.
- Chevron PR
- July 5, 2015
Enable Midstream Completes Bradley II Processing Plant
Enable Midstream Partners LP announced the completion of the Bradley II Plant, a 200 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) natural gas processing plant located at Enable’s Bradley Processing Complex in Grady County, Oklahoma.
- Enabel Midstream PR
- July 11, 2016
Valero Starting New Crude Unit at Corpus Christi Refinery
Valero Energy Corp is starting up a new crude unit at the Corpus Christi Refinery. The $350 million, 70,000 barrels-per-day unit at the company's 205,000 bpd Corpus Christi refinery will enable the refinery to run lighter crudes.
- Reuters - Kristen Hays
- December 14, 2015
NOVATEK makes first LNG shipment from Trinidad & Tobago
OAO NOVATEK (“NOVATEK”) announced today that Novatek Gas & Power, a wholly owned trading subsidiary of NOVATEK, has supplied its first LNG cargo sourced from the Trinidad & Tobago LNG plant, to Chile, port Quintero.
- NOVATEK PR
- July 7, 2016
Devon Energy announced it will sell its 50 percent ownership in Access Pipeline to Wolf Midstream
Devon Energy announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its 50 percent ownership interest in Access Pipeline to Wolf Midstream Inc., a portfolio company of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, for CAD $1.4 billion.
- Devon Energy
- July 14, 2016
Southern Company, Kinder Morgan Enter Southern Natural Gas Pipeline Strategic Venture
Southern Company and Kinder Morgan announced a natural gas pipeline venture through Southern Company’s acquisition of a 50 percent equity interest in the Southern Natural Gas (SNG) pipeline system. Kinder Morgan will continue to operate the system.
- Southern Company PR
- July 10, 2016
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