BP PLC has canceled plans to build a commercial-scale plant in Highlands County, Fla., that was to have made fuel ethanol from cellulose.

Rafinerija Nafte Brod, operator of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s only refinery, will use technologies from Honeywell’s UOP LLC and ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co. (EMRE) in an upgrade of its 240,000 b/d facility at Brod.

Dana Gas PJSC, Sharjah, is preparing a development plan for a discovery of 4-6 bcf of gas in place, its second this year and its 23^rd since 2006 in Egypt’s onshore Nile Delta.

Saudi Aramco has completed contractor selection for the engineering, procurement, and construction of the Jazan refinery and terminal in the southwest of the country.

Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co., a joint venture of Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical Co., has awarded a contract to JGC Gulf International Co. Ltd. to expand ethylene capacity at Petro Rabigh’s refinery and chemicals complex on the Red Sea.

Egyptian Bahrain Gas Derivatives Co., a joint venture involving Dana Gas PJSC, loaded the first propane cargo on Oct. 1 from its NGL extraction plant at Ras Shukheir, Egypt. The project has taken more than 2 years to complete.

Total E&P UK Ltd. and DONG E&P (UK) Ltd., partners in developing Laggan and Tormore fields west of the Shetland Islands, have awarded a 3-year operations and maintenance contract to Aker Solutions, Houston, at the Shetland gas plant (OGJ, Dec. 6, 2010, p. 60).

Sadara Chemical Co. has appointed Ziad S. Al-Labban as chief executive officer. He succeeds Ali A. Abuali who will retire.

Birchcliff Energy Ltd., Calgary, has completed the third-phase expansion of its wholly owned and operated Pouce Coupe South Gas Plant and begun operations. The expansion began processing gas about 1 month ahead of schedule, the company reported.

TNK-BP said it will invest $537 million to add isomerization and cat-cracked gasoline hydrotreating capacity at its 340,000 b/d Ryazan refinery about 120 miles southeast of Moscow.

After restructuring its downstream business in a move it said showed commitment to an integrated company structure, Total has completed a reorganization of its upstream and supply-marketing segments.

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.

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) and ENN Energy Holdings Ltd. said they terminated their joint $2.15 billion takeover bid for China Gas Holdings Ltd. of Hong Kong, which operates gasoline stations and is a natural gas distributor in China.