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).

The nation’s largest motor club urged the US Environmental Protection Agency and the fuel ethanol industry to delay introduction of gasoline with 15% ethanol into the marketplace until the public better understands its potential to damage engines and void warranties.

Sasol will proceed with front-end engineering and design for an integrated gas-to-liquids plant and ethane cracker with downstream derivatives at the company’s site near Lake Charles, La.

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has chosen membrane systems from UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Ill., to process natural gas aboard eight new floating production, storage, and offloading vessels.

The American Petroleum Institute sued the US Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 26 over its final rule raising the biomass-based diesel fuel minimum for 2013 to 1.28 billion gal. EPA increased the requirement by 28% from 2012’s 1 billion gal minimum on Sept. 14.

MarkWest Utica EMG LLC has started up the 60 MMcfd Cadiz refrigeration plant in Harrison County, Ohio, supported by production from two Utica shale wells operated by Gulfport Energy Corp., Oklahoma City.

Viru Keemia Grupp AS, a shale oil miner and processer in Estonia, has let contract to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. for licensing and services for a sulfur recovery unit at its complex in Kothia-Jarve.

Skangass AS, Stavanger, has awarded a $57 million engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract to Linde Group, Munich, to build an LNG import terminal at Lysekil on the west coast of Sweden about 62 miles north of Gothenburg.