Gunvor Group, a trading and logistics company registered in Nicosia, Cyprus, said it successfully bid to buy the 107,500 b/d refinery that financially strapped Petroplus Holdings AG has shut down in Antwerp, Belgium (OGJ Online, Dec. 30, 2011).
Bob Tippee has been chief editor of Oil & Gas Journal since January 1999 and a member of the Journal staff since October 1977. Before joining the magazine, he worked as a reporter at the Tulsa World and served for four years as an officer in the US Air Force. A native of St. Louis, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
