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• 06/10/2011 -- Penn Virginia buys Granite Wash gas plant, gathering
  Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP, Radnor, Pa., paid $11.4 million for a natural gas gathering system and processing plant in the Texas Panhandle. The company’s announcement did not name the seller, nor did the company respond to a request to identify it.
• 06/07/2011 -- French minister wants 'national action plan' for refiners
  French Energy Minister Eric Besson called for a June 22 meeting of all refiners in that country to discuss “a national action plan” to deal with industry problems.
• 06/07/2011 -- Shell sees start-up of joint Qatar GTL project 'soon'
  Royal Dutch Shell PLC expects oil product output to start in weeks at its $18-19 billion Pearl gas-to-liquids project, the world’s largest GTL facility, jointly owned with Qatar Petroleum.
• 06/06/2011 -- Shell planning Appalachian ethylene plant
  Shell has preliminary plans to build a large ethylene plant in the Appalachian region of the US based on ethane from natural gas produced from the Marcellus shale.
• 06/03/2011 -- Chevron launches investigation into UK refinery blast
  Chevron Corp. said it has launched an investigation into the causes of an explosion that killed four people and injured another at its 220,000 b/d refinery in Pembroke, South Wales, UK.
• 06/02/2011 -- Shell, Cosan start Brazilian ethanol venture
  Shell and Cosan SA, Piracicaba, Brazil, have started their joint venture to produce and market ethanol from sugar cane in Brazil (OGJ, Sept. 6, 2010, Newsletter).
• 06/01/2011 -- Fitch: 'Reasonably sized' downstream deals to have modest impact
  Measured withdrawal from downstream operations by large integrated oil companies has slashed refinery acquisition values from high levels prevalent a few years ago.
• 06/01/2011 -- Iraq's Baiji refinery due control upgrade
  North Refineries Co. of Iraq named Honeywell the main engineering, procurement, and construction contractor for an upgrade of automation systems at its 310,000-b/d hydroskimming and hydrocracking refinery in Baiji.
• 05/27/2011 -- Tornado idles Devon's Cana gas plant
  Devon Energy Corp. expects its new 200 MMcfd gas processing plant near Calumet, Okla., to be idle for up to 3 months for repairs to damage described as “significant” from a May 24 tornado.
• 05/27/2011 -- Iran: Refinery blast `due to sanctions and government pressure'
  An explosion and fire that killed at least two people and injured 22 at Iran’s Abadan refinery came after government pressure to promote the project in the face of international sanctions against the country, according to local media reports.