Malaysia’s state oil company Petronas has joined with Roselle, Ill.-based LanzaTech to develop means for capturing carbon dioxide and methane from, among other sources, refinery offgases and natural gas wells and produce acetic acid, a chemical with applications in the polymers and plastics markets, according to a LanzaTech announcement.

Keyera Corp., Calgary, will increase ethane and NGL recoveries at its Rimbey gas plant in west central Alberta.

Williams Cos. Inc., Tulsa, has signed a gas processing agreement with a producer in the Canadian oil sands, according to a company announcement that did not name the producer. OGJ data, however, suggest it is Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Calgary.

Global LPG trade, generally supply-driven in the past and likely to continue to be, is nonetheless seeing sharp changes in its dynamics, according to a report recently compiled by FACTS Global Energy, Honolulu.

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP, Indianapolis, earlier this month said it is considering adding a 1,000-b/d gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant to its Karns City, Pa., specialty products plant. This would be the first GTL installation in North America, so far as OGJ can determine; a few larger projects are under study and planning.

Yamal LNG OAO will us BASF’s technology for removing carbon dioxide from natural gas, reported BASF.

Caballo Energy LLC will build a new cryogenic gas processing plant to handle expanding natural gas production in the liquids-rich Mississippi lime and Cana Woodford shale plays.

Keyera Corp., Calgary, will build a 30,000 b/d de-ethanizer at its natural gas liquids fractionation and storage location in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta.

Enterprise Products Partners LP has started up a second 300-MMcfd train at the partnership’s Yoakum cryogenic natural gas processing plant in Lavaca County, Tex.

Dominion Transmission placed its 484-MMcfd Appalachian Gateway Project into service, transporting natural gas produced in West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania to storage fields and pipelines in Pennsylvania.

Regency Energy Partners LP, Dallas, expand its processing capacity near Dubach in Lincoln Parish, La., to 210 MMcfd by adding an incremental 70 MMcfd of cryogenic capacity and 20 MMcfd of Joule-Thomson capacity (OGJ, May 7, 2012, p. 88; May 7, 2012, p. 104).

Industry had shut in most of the US Gulf of Mexico offshore crude production before Hurricane Isaac made landfall in Plaquemines Parish, La., Aug. 29 as a slow-moving Category 1 hurricane.