ExxonMobil Corp. and Rosneft of Russia have agreed to expand a 2011 strategic cooperation agreement to include far more Russian Arctic exploratory acreage, possible Rosneft participation in ExxonMobil’s Point Thomson gas-condensate field in Alaska, and a potential Russian Arctic LNG project.

Statoil and its partners have chosen a development concept for Skrugard field in the Barents Sea, featuring a floating production unit and a 280-km crude oil export pipeline. The companies will build an onshore oil terminal in Veidnes, Norway.

BP PLC signed a 20-year liquefaction tolling agreement with Freeport LNG Expansion LP covering 4.4 million tonnes/year, which would be the production capacity of a second train at Freeport LNG’s proposed liquefaction and LNG terminal at Quintana near Freeport, Tex.

Plains All American Pipeline LP is building a 55-mile extension of its previously announced Mississippian Lime pipeline to service growing production in the Mississippian Lime play of western Oklahoma and southwest Kansas.

India’s cabinet has approved formation of a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project and permitted GAIL India Ltd. to join the SPV, TAPI Ltd. Turkmenistan last year suggested formation of the SPV as a way to fast-track the project.

Crude oil and petroleum products accounted for the biggest increase in railcar loadings among commodities in 2012, the US Energy Information Administration reported, while coal had the largest decline.

Eni SPA let a contract to ABB for the upgrade of its export terminal at the 120,000-b/d refinery in Taranto in anticipation of crude exports from onshore Tempa Rossa oil field.

Magellan Midstream Partners LP plans to build a pipeline and terminal system at its Galena Park, Tex., terminal to deliver crude from its pipeline system to refineries in Houston and Texas City.

Total SA entered into exclusive negotiations with a consortium led by Italian group Snam to sell its Transport et Infrastructures Gaz France (TIGF) system for $3.25 billion.

Blueknight Energy Partners LP (BKEP) has agreed with Advantage Pipeline LLC to acquire 30% ownership in the 70-mile Pecos River crude oil pipeline from Pecos, Tex., to Crane, Tex.