Americas
Chevron buys Atlas with an eye towards natural gas
Chevron will acquire Atlas Energy for cash of $3.2 billion and assumed pro forma net debt of approximately $1.1 billion.
Petrobras selects UOP for two new Brazilian refineries
Petrobras has selected UOP to provide all of the process technologies for two new maximum diesel refineries to be built in Brazil.
Dynamic Fuels opens biofuels plant in Louisiana
Operations are underway at the new Dynamic Fuels plant, which is successfully converting animal fats and greases into renewable fuels. Production began in early October and the volume being produced is 2,500 bpd and growing.
AltaGas to construct natural gas processing facility in Alberta
AltaGas Ltd. will be constructing a gas processing facility and an associated gas gathering system in the Gordondale area of the Montney resource play, approximately 100 km northwest of Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada.
Ivanhoe Energy’s Tamarack project marks major advance
Ivanhoe Energy has completed a major milestone towards commercial production at its Tamarack project with the submission of its regulatory application to the government of Alberta, Canada.
Copano Energy lends GeoSouthern a hand in the Eagle Ford Shale
Copano Energy has signed a long-term, fee-based agreement to provide GeoSouthern Energy with gathering, compression, processing and fractionation services for its Eagle Ford Shale production from a substantial acreage position in DeWitt County, Texas.
Cobalt Technologies and US Navy to develop military jet fuel
Cobalt Technologies has an agreement with the US Navy to develop technology for the conversion of biobutanol into full performance jet and diesel fuels.
NPRA statement on defeat of Proposition 23 in California
Proposition 23 was defeated because a sophisticated multimillion-dollar misinformation campaign falsely led Californians to believe they were voting to clean their air of pollutants that posed a danger to their health.
Exele introduces new alarm management software
Exele Information Systems has announced major enhancements to its TopView software suite with the release of TopView SQL, which allows the user to query almost any relational database as a source of "monitored data" for TopView.
Repsol and KUO are mad about jatropha
Repsol and KUO Group signed an agreement in Madrid that creates a joint company called Kuosol dedicated to the development of bioenergy from the cultivation of the jatropha curcas, an oilseed with a high content of non-edible oil.
- U.S. firms to develop Syria energy masterplan after Trump lifts sanctions 7/18
- Russian seaborne diesel exports for July 1–15 fall 6% month-on-month 7/18
- INEOS invests £30 MM to slash emissions at Hull site by 75% 7/18
- Mitsubishi Chemical Group invests in Licella Holdings, oil conversion technology using supercritical water 7/18
- BASF and Equinor sign 10-yr natural gas supply agreement 7/18
- Oil prices rise after new EU sanctions on Russia 7/18
