Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals has implemented process automation improvements from Honeywell International to upgrade production capabilities as part of the expansion of its petrochemical complex in the El-Amerya—El-Nahda Territory of Alexandria.
Equinor Energy AS and partners will consider development solutions for a North Sea hydrocarbon discovery (Røver North) 10 km northwest of Troll field and 18 km southwest of Fram field.
Vintage Energy Ltd., Adelaide, will delay completion of its Vali-1 ST1 gas discovery in southwest Queensland Cooper basin permit ATP2021 to assess upside of the gas resource at the field.
In its latest Annual Energy Outlook 2021 (AEO2021), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that, in the reference case, petroleum and other liquids remains the most-consumed fuel in the US before 2050.
AGPC has secured necessary financing to complete construction of its proposed gas plant to process future wet gas production from unitized Assa North-Ohaji South onshore gas and condensate field.
SOCAR has let contracts to Maire Tecnimont SPA subsidiaries to deliver engineering, procurement, and construction on new processing units to enable production of Euro 5-quality gasoline at the operator’s Heydar Aliyev refinery at Baku in Azerbaijan.
Oil output from Argentina’s Vaca Muerta formation has pushed past pre-pandemic levels to reach a record high 124,000 b/d in December 2020, according to Rystad Energy. The ascent could continue to 145,000-150,000 b/d by end-2021.
Talon Petroleum plans to explore for coal seam gas in southern Mongolia. The company has executed a binding offer with Telmen Resource JSC to farm into a 33% interest in the proposed Gurvantes XXXV production sharing agreement.
Indian Oil Corp.' board has approved subsidiary Chennai Petroleum Corp. to move forward with development of its previously announced plan to build a grassroots refinery at Cauvery Basin, in Panangudi Village, Nagapattinam District, Tamilnadu, India.
EIG Global Energy Partners-controlled Limetree Bay Ventures LLC has completed its long-planned restart of an idled refinery previously owned and operated by Hovensa LLC at Limetree Bay on St. Croix, USVI.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. has agreed to sell subsidiary AS Dansk Shell to PL ESG Denmark Co. ApS (Postlane Partners).
Perth-based 88 Energy Ltd. received approval from Alaskan authorities to drill its Merlin-1 wildcat in the NPR-A region of the North Slope of Alaska.
PJSC Lukoil subsidiary OOO Lukoil Volgogradneftepererabotka has commissioned a new deasphalting plant at its 14.8-million tonnes/year Volgograd refinery in southern Russia.
Diamond Green Diesel Holdings LLC is building a grassroots 470-million gal/year renewable diesel plant at Valero’s 395,000-b/d refinery in Port Arthur, Tex., about 90 miles east of Houston.
ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Australia Pty Ltd. is nearing completion of its West Barracouta gas project in Bass Strait. The unit is readying construction of the project’s final subsea infrastructure.
