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12/18/2007 -- Placid refinery expansion on schedule
Private independent Placid Refining said its previously announced $300 million project to upgrade and expand its Port Allen, La., refinery is on schedule for completion in first half 2010.
12/14/2007 -- "A clear and present challenge"
From US Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman's prepared remarks at the dedication of Motiva Enterprises' refinery expansion groundbreaking on Dec. 10 at Port Arthur, Tex.
12/13/2007 -- Nicaragua, Esso near oil import storage accord
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said his country is close to an agreement with ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary Esso that would allow increased imports of crude oil from Venezuela next year.
12/11/2007 -- California refineries must report GHG emissions in 2009
California's refineries, power plants, cement kilns, and manufacturing plants will be required to report annual GHG starting in 2009, CARB agreed Dec. 6.
12/11/2007 -- Iraq refinery sustains damage from rocket attack
Iraq's Doura refinery burst into flames Dec. 10 after being hit by a rocket, according to an Oil Ministry official.
12/06/2007 -- Contract awarded for Colombia refinery expansion
Refinería de Cartagena SA has awarded to Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. a contract for a refinery expansion project in Cartagena, Colombia.
12/06/2007 -- Proposed Canadian refinery would be first in 23 years
NLRC has selected UOP to supply technology, basic engineering services, and equipment for a refinery to be built in the Placentia Bay area of Newfoundland and Labrador.
12/05/2007 -- Fire shuts down second Saudi refinery
Fire has shut down a Saudi Arabian refinery, according to a statement by Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Co. (Luberef). It is the second fire-related accident at an Aramco facility in a month.
12/05/2007 -- Total, Sonatrach plan Algerian petchem complex
Total SA and Algeria's Sonatrach have signed a framework agreement to build a $3 billion petrochemical complex with a 1.4 million tonne/year ethane cracker in Arzew, near Oran, by 2012. The signing follows a memorandum of understanding signed in July (OGJ Online, July 19, 2007).
12/04/2007 -- China's NDRC okays Sinopec, KPC joint venture
China's National Development and Reform Commission has approved a refinery JV project between Sinopec and Kuwait Petroleum Corp. in southern China's Guangdong province.
12/03/2007 -- Neste Oil to build Singapore biodiesel plant
Neste Oil of Finland said it will invest €550 million to construct the world's largest biodiesel plant in Singapore.
11/28/2007 -- PetroSA contemplates major South Africa refinery
South Africa's PetroSA has hired KBR to assess the feasibility of constructing a 200,000 b/d refinery at Coega in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, by 2014-15.
11/27/2007 -- Suncor's Sarnia refinery upgrade nears completion
Suncor Energy Inc. said the final phase of a 3-year upgrade project at its 70,000 b/cd refinery in Sarnia, Ont., is almost complete.
11/21/2007 -- Foreign-owned refinery licensed in Vietnam
Vietnam's central Phu Yen Province has licensed a joint venture of the UK's Techno Star Management (51%) and Russia's Telloil (49%) to build a 4 million tonne/year oil refinery.
11/16/2007 -- Ivory Coast starts construction on second refinery
Ivory Coast has started construction on its second oil refinery, a 60,000 b/d facility on a 400-hectare site in the Vridi district of Abidjan.
11/15/2007 -- Chevron signs processing agreement for Piceance basin production
Chevron USA has entered into a long-term agreement with Enterprise Gas Processing for the gathering and treatment of natural gas produced from Chevron's Piceance basin operations in western Colorado.
11/14/2007 -- French producers asked to lessen oil price impact
France's Finance and Economy Minister Christine Lagarde urged all producers and distributors of fuel in that country to reduce the impact of high oil prices on consumers.
11/14/2007 -- Work proceeds on Khalifa Point refinery
A survey and geotechnical investigation have been completed for the $5 billion Khalifa Coastal Refinery project planned by Abu Dhabi's IPIC and Pakistan's Parco near Hub in Baluchistan Province.
11/09/2007 -- Shell, Codexis to advance next-generation biofuels
Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Codexis Inc., a specialist in clean biocatalytic process technologies, have teamed to find ways of converting biomass to clean, renewable liquid transportation fuels through "super enzymes" in the next generation of biofuels.
11/07/2007 -- Shell to design Mariisky refinery upgrades
Under a two-phase, $1.3 billion investment program, Mariisky will upgrade its refinery with the support of Shell Global Solutions to increase capacity and meet stricter European specifications.

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