Labor strikes in France called for by the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) trade unions, which began Sept. 27 at the Marseille Fos and Lavera terminals, are now entering their 12th day and will likely affect nearby refineries.

Total E&P UK Ltd. awarded Technip a €70 million engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract that includes a 6-km reelable, electrically trace heated pipe-in-pipe flowline for the Islay gas field on UK Block 3/15 and Norway Blocks 29/6a and 29/6c.

Woodside Petroleum (Pty.) Ltd. has awarded Fugro-EMGS a contract for a controlled source electromagnetic survey on Australia’s Northwest Shelf.

China’s National Development and Reform Commission has approved the first phase of Sinopec Corp.'s LNG terminal in eastern Shandong Province, according to press reports.

Explosives experts in the United Arab Emirates confirmed a Japanese-owned oil tanker steaming through the Strait of Hormuz last week came under a terrorist attack.

Magellan Midstream Partners LP announced July 29 launching an open season to assess firm customer interest to transport crude oil from West Texas to the partnership's East Houston terminal.

Williams Partners LP and Florida Gas Transmission announced July 21 approval from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of a proposal to connect the existing Transco and FGT natural gas pipeline systems with the new Gulf LNG Clean Energy import terminal under development near Pascagoula, Miss.

Sudan’s Minister of Oil Lual Deng called a proposed oil pipeline to Kenya from southern Sudan “uneconomical.”

In the year before the massive oil spill created by the Macondo well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, oil pollution from tanker accidents set a record low.