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• 07/26/2011 -- Murphy agrees to sell Wisconsin refinery
  As part of a strategy announced last year to exit the refining business, Murphy Oil Corp. has entered an agreement to sell its 33,250-b/cd refinery at Superior, Wisc., to Calumet Specialty Products Partners, Indianapolis.
• 07/20/2011 -- Indian refiners look beyond Iran for oil
  Indian refiners, faced with Iran’s uncertain ability to provide adequate levels of oil supplies, say they are now looking to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE for increased shipments of crude oil.
• 07/13/2011 -- IEA: Refinery investments set for 2012 rebound
  Following a slowdown in refining capacity investments this year, next year will see a slew of refinery projects completed, the International Energy Agency said in its latest monthly oil market report.
• 07/12/2011 -- Crosstex, Apache to develop Permian gas plant
  Crosstex Energy LP and Crosstex Energy Inc., Dallas, today announced a joint investment, with Apache Corp., Houston, of $85 million in a new natural gas processing plant in the Permian basin in West Texas.
• 07/08/2011 -- EPA approval of E15 may be mistake, witnesses tell House panel
  Federal approval of higher ethanol concentrations in gasoline without further testing could seriously damage engines instead of improving the environment, several witnesses told a subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee on July 7.
• 07/07/2011 -- Argentine refinery to upgrade coker heater
  Repsol-YPF SA has awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction contract to Foster Wheeler AG for a delayed coker heater for the delayed coking unit at the company’s Complejo Industrial La Plata facility in Argentina.
• 07/05/2011 -- Variable-speed drives going to Utah gas plant
  Chipeta Processing LLC, a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corp., has commissioned Converteam, Pittsburgh, a power-conversion specialist, to supply a complete variable-speed drive system to control two natural gas compressor trains at the Chipeta gas processing plant in Utah.
• 07/05/2011 -- Aramco project to cut Riyadh product sulfur
  Saudi Aramco has let a contract to Foster Wheeler SOFCON for front-end engineering design and project management for a project to lower sulfur content of gasoline and diesel produced at its 120,000-b/cd refinery in Riyadh.
• 07/05/2011 -- PDVSA lets Barinas hydroskimming contract
  Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has let a front-end engineering design (FEED) services contract to a Foster Wheeler subsidiary for the first-phase hydroskimming section of the 100,000-b/d Batalla Santa Ines Refinery under construction in Barinas, Venezuela.
• 07/01/2011 -- Kuwait's Al-Zour refinery gets approval
  Kuwait’s Oil Minister Mohammad al-Busairy said the Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC), the country’s highest decision-making body for oil policy, has approved construction of the 615,000 b/d Al-Zour refinery.