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• 02/18/2013 -- Utica processing, fractionation near completion; more planned
  Major cryogenic processing and NGL fractionation will come on stream in eastern Ohio late in the second quarter or early in the third quarter to handle Utica shale natural gas and liquids, with another plant planned for 2014.
• 02/14/2013 -- Saudi lube-oil JV awards expansion contract
  Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Co. (Luberef) has contracted with Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to provide project management consulting for an expansion at Luberef’s lube oil refinery in Yanbu.
• 02/01/2013 -- Marathon completes BP refinery purchase
  Marathon Petroleum Corp. has completed its purchase of BP’s 451,000-b/cd refinery at Texas City, Tex., and will rename it Galveston Bay Refinery (OGJ Online, Oct. 8, 2012).
• 01/30/2013 -- Plans advance for Vietnam’s second refinery
  Plans for Vietnam’s second refinery have advanced with the issuance by Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical LLC (NSRP) of a letter of award for key contracts to a consortium of construction firms (OGJ Online, Mar. 28, 2008).
• 01/29/2013 -- Westlake taps Technip for ethylene work
  Westlake Chemical Corp. has let a contract to Technip for the expansion and modernization of the cracking furnaces and recovery section of its ethylene plant in Calvert City, Ky. (OGJ Online, Oct. 2, 2012).
• 01/18/2013 -- Oneok to expand Williston basin gas processing, transportation
  Oneok Partners LP plans to build a 100-MMcfd natural gas processing plant, Garden Creek III, and related infrastructure in eastern McKenzie County, ND, in the Williston basin.
• 01/18/2013 -- Contract let for Cambodian hydrocracker
  Cambodian Petrochemical Co. Ltd., through a contractor, has let a licensing and engineering services contract to KBR for a hydrocracker at a 5-million tonne/year (tpy) refinery planned in Cambodia.
• 01/18/2013 -- Midstream operator starts up West Texas processing, plans more
  Nuevo Midstream LLC, Houston, has completed Phase 2 expansion of its Ramsey natural gas gathering, processing, and treating in the Delaware basin near Orla, Tex., Reeves County, about 65 miles west of Odessa.
• 01/15/2013 -- Good policies crucial to US refining success, API official says
  A strong US energy future heavily depends on being able to refine reliable motor fuels, suggested Cindy Schild, refining senior manager at the American Petroleum Institute. Sound decisions on the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, the Renewable Fuels Standard, and refinery regulations could make a major positive difference, she maintained.
• 01/14/2013 -- Dow restarts Taft 2 ethylene plant on schedule
  Dow Chemical Co. said it restarted its Taft 2 ethylene plant near Hahnville, La., late last year, meeting its anticipated schedule as the company works to boost feedstocks from increasing US shale gas supplies.