Crude oil
GE, Sargas align on carbon capture technology for enhanced oil recovery
The Sargas power plant delivers significantly lower costs of electricity and captured CO2 per ton, therefore enabling the Sargas-led engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) consortium to offer industrial-scale volumes of economically competitive CO2 for EOR applications worldwide.
Enbridge faces complaints of oil sands favoritism from Bakken producers
The dispute underscores the growing scramble for limited pipeline space, as burgeoning production from the Bakken and light, tight oil plays in Canada compete with the expanding oil sands for transportation space.
Phillips 66 eyes additional rail capacity to transport North Dakota shale oil
Phillips 66 is ordering 2,000 railcars to transport oil from shale fields in North Dakota to refineries on the US coasts. The company currently refines about 100,000 bpd of shale oil but says it can handle 500,000.
Phillips 66 rethinks possible Louisiana refinery sale
Phillips 66 will decide by this summer whether to sell its refinery in Belle Chasse, La., said CEO Greg Garland. Phillips 66 has considered a sale of its Alliance refinery in Belle Chasse since December 2011, but is now rethinking the prospect amid falling prices for Light Louisiana Sweet crude oil, Garland said.
Brenntag buys Italy additives distributor Petrolube
German chemical distribution major Brenntag has signed an agreement to acquire Petrolube, the exclusive distributor of Infineum specialty fuel and oil additives based in Milan, Italy. The deal strengthens Brenntag’s strategic relationship with Infineum, a manufacturer of specialty additives.
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HP Construction: Africa
ABB has started up a new lube-oil blending plant (LOBP) built by Oryx Lubrifiants Togo SA, an affiliate of Oryx Oil and Gas, part of the Addax and Oryx Group, in Togo, West Africa. Located in the free..
BP may sell stake in Russian crude venture TNK-BP
BP said Friday that it had received unsolicited indications of interest regarding the potential acquisition of its 50% stake in Russian crude oil venture TNK-BP. The company was formed in 2003 as the result of the merger of BP’s Russian oil and gas assets and the assets of Alfa Access Renova.
Motiva inaugurates major Texas refinery expansion
Executives of the companies that jointly own Motiva - Peter Voser, CEO of Shell, and Khalid Al-Falih, CEO of Saudi Aramco - turned the ceremonial valve commemorating the start of oil flowing through new processing units at the complex. The expanded refinery can process a wider variety of crude oils.

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