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Statoil exercises one year option with Aker Solutions at Mongstad refinery

Statoil has exercised a one year option to extend its contract with Aker Solutions at the Mongstad refinery in Norway.

Petrofac has gas plant contract with Total

Petrofac has a contract worth in excess of £500 million with Total E&P UK Ltd. for the development of a gas processing plant on the Shetland Islands off the coast of Scotland.

Turblex now part of Siemens Energy

Turblex Inc., acquired by Siemens Energy, Inc., officially adopted the Siemens name effective October 1, 2010.

BASF launches social media newsroom

BASF is offering a new online information service for journalists, bloggers and brand fans timed to coincide with publication of its third quarter report on October 28, 2010. BASF’s social media newsroom bundles all Web 2.0 information about the company on an easy-to-navigate central platform.

Shell to sell downstream businesses in Finland and Sweden

Shell has agreed to sell the majority of its refining and marketing businesses in Finland and Sweden to Keele Oy. Keele Oy is the major shareholder of St1 Holding Oy, whose businesses include fuel retail networks in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Poland.

ExxonMobil commissions new ultra-low-sulfur diesel units

ExxonMobil has completed commissioning of new units to produce ultra-low-sulfur diesel at its Baytown, Texas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refineries.

Shell blends biofuel for Scuderia Ferrari at South Korea Grand Prix

Shell has blended a second advanced biofuel into fuel supplied to Scuderia Ferrari for the last three races of the 2010 Formula One championship.

Neste Oil and Stora Enso launch impact assessment for renewable diesel plant

Neste Oil's and Stora Enso's joint venture, NSE Biofuels Oy, is to commence environmental impact assessments for a commercial-scale biorefinery at Porvoo and at Imatra in Finland.

GE snaps up Dresser for a cool $3 billion

GE has purchased Dresser, Inc. for $3 billion. The deal includes all of the Dresser businesses, which provide products and services for compression, flow technology, measurement and distribution infrastructure for customers in more than 150 countries.

BP hires AMEC for onshore EPMS

AMEC has entered into a global agreement with BP International Ltd. to provide engineering and project management services (EPMS) for BP's onshore facilities developments around the world.