Williams Cos. Inc., Tulsa, will process natural gas from Jonah and Pinedale Anticline fields in southwestern Wyoming. AEC Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.; a unit of BP PLC; McMurry Energy Co.; Nerd Energy; and Williams' production business have dedicated 575 MMcfd of gas production to Williams' 1.1 bcfd processing plant in Opal, Wyo., under a long-term agreement.
A unit of Williams will market all fuel grade ethanol produced by Ace Ethanol LLC when its 15 million-gal/year ethanol plant in Stanley, Wis., begins production in mid-2002. The agreement will bring the amount of ethanol Williams markets or produces to 400 million gal/year.
ExxonMobil Corp.'s Global Services division has let contract to Technip USA Corp., part of the French Technip-Coflexip Group, to provide front-end engineering services to its Baytown, Tex., refinery and chemical plants as part of plans to reduce NOx emissions.
Kinder Morgan CO2 Co. LP has purchased Mission Resources Corp.'s interests in the Snyder gasoline plant (bringing its stake to 14%) and the Diamond M Gas Plant (bringing its stake to more than 41%) for $11.5 million in cash. It has also begun a $14.9 million expansion of its CO2 project in the West Texas Scurry Area Canyon Reef Operators Committee unit area.
