Williams Cos. Inc., Tulsa, reported an explosion occurred within its Geismar, La., olefins plant in Louisiana at 8:37 a.m. CST June 13.

Enterprise Products Partners LP, Houston, has formed a partnership with Western Gas Partners LP, Houston, to own NGL fractionation Trains 7 and 8, currently under construction at EPP's complex in Mont Belvieu, Tex., east of Houston (OGJ Online, Mar. 26, 2012).

Hoover Energy Partners LP, Houston, and an affiliate, Pecos River Pipeline I LP, reported start-up of a compressor station, gas pipeline, and separation plant and plans to build a fractionation plant in the Delaware basin of Texas.

Williams, Tulsa, has let a contract to Wood Group Mustang for the survey, engineering, design, and program management of its Purity Pipeline projects, encompassing the conversion and construction of more than 300 miles of NGL and olefins pipelines along the Texas Gulf Coast.

PT Pertamina (Persoro) of Indonesia has signed a polymer-purchase agreement with a unit of PTT Global Chemical of Thailand in anticipation of the joint development of a petrochemical plant in Indonesia.

Construction will begin in July on the 200,000-b/d refinery to be built in the Nghi Son Economic Zone in Thanh Hoa Province, about 200 km south of Hanoi, Vietnam, reports Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. (OGJ Online, Jan. 30, 2013).

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP is adding 900,000 bbl of ultralow-sulfur diesel (ULSD) storage at its 185-acre Battleground Oil Specialty Terminal Co. LLC (Bostco) site on the Houston Ship Channel.