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• 12/28/2012 -- ExxonMobil starts up ethylene steam cracker in Singapore
  ExxonMobil Corp. reported the startup operations of one of the world’s largest ethylene steam crackers, which is the centerpiece of the company’s multibillion dollar expansion project at its Singapore petrochemical complex.
• 12/18/2012 -- Tuppinger to head OMV's Schwechat refinery
  Dieter Tuppinger has been appointed head of OMV’s 192,000 b/d Schwechat refinery in Austria.
• 12/18/2012 -- Rosneft, Saras eye processing-marketing JV
  Rosneft and Saras SPA have entered an agreement declaring their intention to create a 50-50 joint venture for the processing of crude oil and sale of oil products.
• 12/18/2012 -- TNK-BP completing Ryazan hydrogen plant
  Ryazan Oil Processing Co., part of the TNK-BP Group, expects to commission a 617 million cu m/year hydrogen plant at its 340,000 b/d refinery southeast of Moscow in the first quarter of 2013.
• 12/18/2012 -- Pertamina plans Indonesian naphtha cracker
  PT Pertamina has identified three international companies from which it will select one to serve as its partner in the construction and operation of a naphtha cracker in Indonesia.
• 12/14/2012 -- MarkWest starts up first Mobley, W.Va., gas plant
  MarkWest Energy Partners, Denver, has begun operations at the first of three planned Mobley gas processing plants in Wetzel County, W.Va.
• 12/12/2012 -- Statoil issues 3-year FEED agreement for gas plants
  Statoil Petroleum AS has signed a 3-year frame agreement with a unit of Foster Wheeler’s global engineering and construction group for front-end engineering design (FEED) services at the Karsto and Kollsnes gas processing plants.
• 12/12/2012 -- BP unit to expand Brazilian ethanol plant
  BP Biofuels will spend $350 million to double the capacity of its Tropical sugarcane mill in Edeia, Goias State, Brazil, in a project that will enable the facility to process 5 million tons/year of sugarcane and produce 450 million l./year of ethanol equivalent.
• 12/11/2012 -- DCP Midstream to build Eagle Ford cryogenic plant
  DCP Midstream LLC and DCP Midstream Partners LP plan to build a cryogenic plant to provide natural gas processing services for producers in the liquids-rich Eagle Ford shale of South Texas.
• 12/04/2012 -- Contract let for planned Kuwaiti refinery
  Kuwait National Petroleum Co. has let a $528 million project management consultancy contract to AMEC, London, for the 615,000 b/d refinery planned at Al Zour (OGJ Online, July 1, 2011).