Anadarko Petroleum Corp. signed a heads of agreement (HOA) with Eni SPA aimed at coordinating the two companies’ activities in connection with the Mozambique liquefied natural gas project.

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.

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.

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.

MarkWest Energy Partners, Denver, has begun operations at the first of three planned Mobley gas processing plants in Wetzel County, W.Va.

European Union sanctions on natural gas exports from Iran may be having unintended consequences for the country’s exports of LPG, according to analysis by Facts Global Energy, Honolulu.

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.

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.

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.

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).