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NewsReuters, September 20, 2018The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published new data detailing how it drastically expanded a biofuels waiver program for oil refiners since President Donald Trump’s administration took office, responding to pressure from the corn lobby to boost transparency over the opaque program.
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NewsReuters, September 20, 2018U.S. refiners have processed a record volume of crude in the last three months, reversing the previous shortage of distillate but leaving the country with record gasoline stocks at the end of the summer driving season.
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NewsReuters, September 19, 2018Major U.S. ethanol producer Green Plains Inc is shutting down two ethanol plants in Iowa and cutting output at another in Minnesota due to low profit margins, three industry sources told Reuters.
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NewsAtlantic Coast Pipeline, September 18, 2018The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted Dominion Energy permission to resume construction on its Atlantic Coast Pipeline yesterday.
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NewsErgon, Inc, September 17, 2018Ergon BioFuels, LLC, a subsidiary of Ergon, Inc., has announced plans to close its ethanol plant in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in December 2018.
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NewsReuters, September 17, 2018Chinese state-owned Sinopec, formally known as China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, along with an Alberta indigenous group, China State Construction Engineering Corp and Alberta management company Teedrum, plan to build a refinery to process 167,000 barrels per day of crude into gasoline and other products, the project’s consulting firm Stantec Inc said in a statement on Thursday.
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NewsReuters, September 17, 2018Kinder Morgan Inc has hired investment bank TD Securities to facilitate a potential sale of its Canadian business, which could fetch as much as C$2.4 billion ($1.8 billion), people familiar with the situation told Reuters this week.
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NewsAir Products, September 13, 2018Air Products, the leading global hydrogen provider, today announced plans to build a new liquid hydrogen plant at its La Porte, Texas industrial gas facility to meet increasing product demand from several customer markets. The liquid hydrogen plant will produce approximately 30 tons per day, will draw its hydrogen to be liquefied from Air Products’ existing Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline system network, and is to be onstream in 2021.
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NewsTarga Resources Corp., September 13, 2018Targa Resources Corp. has executed agreements to sell its refined products and crude oil storage and terminaling facilities in Tacoma, WA and Baltimore, MD to an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC for approximately $160 million.
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NewsONEOK, Inc., September 12, 2018ONEOK, Inc. recently announced plans to invest approximately $295 millionto expand its West Texas LPG Limited Partnership (West Texas LPG) pipeline system, which provides natural gas liquids (NGL) takeaway capacity for Permian Basin producers.
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NewsHouston Chronicle, September 12, 2018
Refiners are poised to adopt new technologies at a faster pace after years of incremental progress, an effort that could save the industry billions of dollars .
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NewsReuters, September 11, 2018
Russian natural gas producer Gazprom is revisiting plans to build a pipeline to South Korea across North Korea after noting signs of easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, a Gazprom executive said on Tuesday.
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NewsReuters, September 11, 2018Exxon Mobil Corp is planning to spend more than 500 million pounds ($650 million) to upgrade the UK’s largest oil refinery, Fawley, on England’s south coast, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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NewsReuters, September 7, 2018
The chief executive of the largest oilfield service provider, Schlumberger, warned on Tuesday that bottlenecks in the largest U.S. shale basin would slow oil production growth and investments in the region. A surge in oil and gas production in the Permian basin of west Texas and New Mexico has outstripped transport capacity, pushing the local price of oil to four-year lows and threatening to curtail drilling activity.
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NewsReuters, September 6, 2018Mexico’s next government plans to build what could be the country’s largest oil refinery, with construction set to begin as soon as next year, President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday.
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