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Enterprise, Genesis team up for new Gulf pipeline

Enterprise Products Partners and Genesis Energy plan to build a crude oil gathering pipeline in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico for a consortium of six producers. Enterprise will serve as construction manager and operator of the new pipeline, earning fees for both services.

Republicans pressure Obama for Keystone XL pipeline decision

HP Editorial Staff: HP News

Republicans are tightening the screws on US President Barack Obama, seeking to force a decision regarding the controversial oil pipeline.

EU agrees in principle to oil embargo on Iran

European Union member states agreed in principle to press ahead with an oil embargo on Iran over its nuclear program, diplomats said Wednesday, in a move that pushed oil prices higher. An oil embargo would be the latest step in international efforts to isolate Tehran economically over concerns Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons.

Enterprise to build ethane pipeline from Appalachia to US Gulf

Enterprise plans to move ahead with a planned 1,230-mile pipeline to deliver growing ethane production from the Marcellus and Utica shale regions to the US Gulf coast. The pipeline will begin in Pennsylvania with 595 miles of new pipeline extending to Missouri, where Enterprise plans to reverse an existing pipeline and place it in ethane service.

Venezuela seen getting off 'lightly' in $908 million ExxonMobil settlement

An international arbitration panel awarded US oil major ExxonMobil $908 million in a verdict over oil assets nationalized by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2007. The payout is substantially lower than the $7 billion that Exxon was seeking in restitution.

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Tecnimont S.p.A., the main operating company of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A., has an engineering procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract on a lump-sum turnkey basis for a new fertilizers..

Indian Oil to cut jet fuel prices amid weaker crude

Indian Oil Corp. on Saturday said it will trim jet fuel prices by 1.0% beginning January 1 due to a softening in international benchmark rates. State-run fuel retailers revise jet fuel prices every fortnight in line with international crude oil prices.

US oil demand fell in November on lower gasoline consumption - API

Total US petroleum deliveries (a measure of demand) fell 1.1% in November compared with November a year ago, pulled down by a 1.8% decline in motor gasoline demand to an 11-year low for the month, according to a monthly report from the American Petroleum Institute (API).

US refining profits poised to drop in 2012

HP Editorial Staff: HP News

As a WTI cost advantage fades, the sluggish US economy will play a bigger role in profits made from the sale of refined petroleum products.

Spain's Repsol buys Russian oil company Eurotek

Spanish oil company Repsol said Thursday it has agreed to buy Russian oil firm Eurotek for $230 million, its second deal in the country in as many weeks. The deal follows the Dec. 20 announcement of a new joint venture with Russian-Kazakh peer Alliance Oil Co.