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NewsReuters, February 18, 2019Indian Oil Corp, the country’s top refiner, has signed its first annual deal to buy U.S. oil, paying about $1.5 billion for 60,000 barrels a day in the year to March 2020 to diversify its crude sources, its chairman said on Monday.
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NewsClarion Technical Conferences, February 14, 2019The 31st Edition of the PPIM Conference kicks off next Monday at the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston. This event will feature almost 70 technical papers and the accompanying exhibition will see more almost 200 companies represented.
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NewsReuters, February 13, 2019South Africa’s largest refinery, the 180,000 barrel per day Sapref plant in the east coast city of Durban, will shutdown for routine maintenance from the last week of May until the end of July, a refinery official said on Wednesday.
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NewsINEOS, February 12, 2019INEOS Chairman Sir Jim Ratcliffe has written an open letter to the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, expressing his concerns about Europe’s chemicals industry.
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NewsReuters, February 12, 2019Vitol, the world’s top oil trader, plans to access liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from the giant Kashagan field in Kazakhstan and may finance the construction of a processing and export facility, industry and company sources told Reuters.
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NewsMeridian Energy Group, Inc., February 12, 2019Meridian Energy Group recently announced that the Company has entered into agreement with a Winkler Company subsidiary establishing site control in Winkler County, Texas for a new Meridian full-conversion crude oil refinery.
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NewsReuters, February 12, 2019Philadelphia Energy Solutions Inc, owner of the largest and oldest refinery on the U.S. East Coast, is reportedly facing another financial crisis just months after emerging from a controversial bankruptcy.
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NewsReuters, February 11, 2019A crude distillation unit (CDU) was shut by a fire on Sunday at Phillips 66’s 330,000 bpd joint-venture Wood River Refinery, a source familiar with plant operations said. One person was taken to a local hospital to be treated for burns.
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NewsReuters, February 11, 2019Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is seeking to invest in more downstream assets, mainly in refining and petrochemicals, in strategic locations like India to find a stable outlet for its oil, said its chief executive officer, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber.
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NewsSempra Energy, February 8, 2019Sempra Energy has completed the sale of its non-utility U.S. natural gas storage facilities to an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners (ArcLight) for $328 million in cash
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NewsNoble Midstream Partners L.P., February 8, 2019Noble Midstream and Salt Creek Midstream have closed on their JV Delaware Crossing project which will provide crude gathering and transportation services and include a 95-mile pipeline in the southern Delaware Basin.
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Press ReleaseOlympus, February 6, 2019Olympus recently launched its all-new IPLEX® G Lite ultra-portable industrial videoscope for fast, easy visual inspections of small or difficult-to-access locations such as aircraft engines and piping.
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NewsFinancial Times, February 6, 2019On Tuesday, ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum announced a final investment decision on a $10 billion project to expand liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capabilities from the Texas Gulf Coast.
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NewsGolden Pass Products LLC, February 6, 2019The Golden Pass Products LLC export project at the existing Golden Pass LNG facility in Sabine Pass, Texas, is moving forward following a positive final investment decision from its owners, affiliates of Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil.
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NewsReuters, February 5, 2019The government of Curacao is resuming talks with two candidates to operate the nation’s 335,000-barrel-per-day Isla refinery after its preferred bidder withdrew from consideration, the refinery said in a statement on Tuesday.
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