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NewsLA Times, October 18, 2017A fire erupted late last night following an explosion at Chevron's 274,000 bpd El Segundo refinery in Los Angeles, California. El Segundo police advised nearby residents to...
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NewsReuters, October 18, 2017Russia’s Novatek plans to expand the Yamal LNG project by one more train with a capacity of 1 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year.
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NewsReuters, October 17, 2017South Korea’s SK Innovation said on Tuesday it will invest 740 billion won ($657 million) to boost production capacity at its petrochemical plants in China, jointly owned by China’s Sinopec Corp.
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Partner ContentFFS assessment techniques are applicable to a wide range of damage types: LTA's, cracks, creep damage, dents, and more. These are very powerful analytical tools that often allow operators to not only keep the plant running, but to keep it running safely.
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NewsBloomberg, October 17, 2017An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP Plc’s Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig. The Delta House floating production facility about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Venice, Louisiana, released 7,950 to 9,350 barrels of oil from early Wednesday to Thursday morning, according to closely held operator LLOG Exploration Co.
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NewsExxonMobil, October 17, 2017ExxonMobil Chemical Company has commenced production on the first of two new 650,000 tons-per-year high-performance polyethylene lines at its plastics plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas. The full project, part of the company’s multi-billion dollar expansion project in the Baytown area and ExxonMobil’s broader Growing the Gulf expansion initiative, will increase the plant’s polyethylene capacity by approximately 1.3 million tons per year.
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NewsU.S. Chemical Safety Board, October 16, 2017The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new 8-minute safety video describing the events leading to the November 22, 2016 fire at ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge refinery, which severely burned four workers. The video, entitled "Fire in Baton Rouge," details the CSB's Key Lessons stemming from the 2016 incident.
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NewsReuters, October 16, 2017The search continued for a worker missing from an oil production platform in Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain that exploded and caught fire late Sunday, sending six others to hospital with injuries, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Coast Guard rescue crews were battling 4 foot to 5 foot (1.2-1.5 meter) waves on the lake and a helicopter joined the search at daybreak after an overnight effort failed to locate the worker, officials said at a briefing on Monday.
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NewsReuters, October 13, 2017Petrochina has expressed interest in developing the Nassiriya oil refinery in southern Iraq, the oil ministry said in a statement on Friday. A Petrochina executive expressed the company’s interest at a meeting with Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi in Baghdad.
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NewsReuters, October 13, 2017Gas transporter TGS, controlled by Pampa Energía, has proposed an $800 million pipeline and gas treatment plant in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale fields, aiming to address a key barrier to increasing production. The project, subject to approval by the government of Neuquen province, could be built in a year and a half and...
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NewsReuters, October 13, 2017Greece’s state controlled natural gas firm DEPA signed a cooperation agreement on Thursday with natural gas company Gastrade to participate in the development of a liquified natural gas terminal in northern Greece, DEPA said.
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NewsCantonRep.com, October 12, 2017On Wednesday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave NEXUS permission to begin construction on its 255 mile natural gas pipeline, about a month after approving the $2.1 billion project.
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NewsReuters, October 12, 2017Repairs to the Centurion Pipeline in Oklahoma were expected to be completed on Wednesday, a day after a contractor ruptured the 70,000 barrel-per-day line and triggered a spill, the company said.
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NewsReuters, October 11, 2017An explosion occurred at a Tupras refinery in the western Turkish province of Izmir on Wednesday killing four people.
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NewsEmerson, October 11, 2017Emerson has acquired GeoFields, Inc., a leading global supplier of software and implementation services for pipeline integrity data collection, management and risk analysis for the oil and gas industry. GeoFields software enables pipeline operators to collect critical integrity data, perform risk modeling and high consequence area (HCA) risk analysis, and prioritize pipeline integrity-related maintenance and asset management activities.
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NewsReuters, October 11, 2017A group of six Chinese independent oil refiners set up a 33 billion yuan ($5 billion) joint venture to compete with state-owned giants and the rise of private chemical giants, a senior executive at one of the partners said.
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