ExxonMobil in coming days will sharply boost gasoline and diesel production at its Beaumont, Texas, refinery, people familiar with the matter said, completing a $2 billion expansion first considered nine years ago.

NOVA Chemicals, with production assets in Canada and in Louisiana, and owned by Mubadala Investment Co. from Abu Dhabi, announced in late December 2022 the “mechanical completion” of expanded polyethylene and cracking capacity in Sarnia, Ontario.

A large-scale reconstruction has been completed at LUKOIL's Volgograd refinery, including modernization of the CDU-VDU-5 crude distillation unit and the solvent extraction unit.

Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) and TotalEnergies will join forces to build a new petrochemicals complex in Saudi Arabia.

India is considering building several refineries instead of a single mega plant planned with Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), due to challenges in acquiring land, three sources familiar with the matter said.

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Top U.S. LNG exporter Cheniere Energy Inc will form a joint venture with units of Whistler Pipeline LLC to construct the ADCC natural gas pipeline, WhiteWater Midstream LLC said on Monday.

Construction has begun on three new U.S. LNG export projects - Golden Pass LNG, Plaquemines LNG, and Corpus Christi Stage III - which are expected to collectively boost U.S. liquefied natural gas peak export capacity by 5.7 bcf/d by 2025

Imperial recently announced a long-term contract with Air Products to supply low-carbon hydrogen for Imperial’s proposed renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta.

BASF, SABIC and Linde are building the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracker furnaces, which could potentially reduce CO2 emissions by at least 90% compared to technologies commonly used today.

QatarEnergy’s affiliates, QatarEnergy Renewable Solutions and Qatar Fertilizer Company (QAFCO) have signed agreements for the construction of the Ammonia-7 Project, the industry’s first world-scale and largest Blue Ammonia project.

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Australia's Santos Ltd said on Monday it would spend an additional $311 million to build a new pipeline to transport gas from its offshore Barossa field to its Darwin LNG plant in the Northern Territory.

Reliance Industries Ltd, operator of the world's biggest refining complex, will invest 750 billion rupees ($9.38 billion) over 5 years to expand its oil to chemical business, its chairman Mukesh D Ambani said.

Cargill is upgrading its St. Martin Parish facility that produces food, water conditioning, and salt products for a variety of industries.

Mexico's state-oil company Pemex requested this week almost $6.5 billion in additional funding from the government to pay for works at the 'Dos Bocas' refinery this year.

TC Energy Corp said on Thursday it had struck a deal with a Mexican state utility to develop a $4.5 billion natural gas pipeline.

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Canada's Enbridge Inc said on Friday it will invest $1.5 billion in the joint construction and operation of the Woodfibre liquefied natural gas (LNG) project with Pacific Energy Corp Ltd.

PetroChina has launched a 30.5 billion yuan ($4.52 billion) program to expand a subsidiary refinery in southern China into an integrated petrochemicals complex, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.

Corpus Christi Polymers, LLC (CCP) recently announced its plans to resume construction of its integrated purified terephthalic acid-polyethylene terephthalate (PET-PTA) complex in Corpus Christi, Texas.

ConocoPhillips on Thursday agreed to take a 30% stake in Sempra Energy's proposed Port Arthur, Texas, liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, advancing the long-delayed gas export project.

Air Products has announced a new $2 billion major expansion project that will produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at World Energy’s Paramount, California location.

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Neptune Energy, ExxonMobil, Rosewood Exploration, and EBN Capital agree to progress the L10 large-scale offshore carbon capture and storage project in the Dutch North Sea.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says Pemex's new refinery along the coast of Tabasco will reach full operating capacity by next year, despite industry experts saying it will take until at least 2024.

The new $800 million facility would produce renewable gasoline from wood waste biomass sourced from Louisiana and Mississippi timber operations.

Chevron Phillips Chemical recently announced plans to expand its polyalphaolefins (PAO) business with the construction of a new unit in Beringen, Belgium. Upon completion, PAO production capacity at the facility will be doubled.

Evonik plans to invest $220 million to build a new pharmaceutical lipids production facility in Indiana.

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In the first quarter of 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved three projects intended to increase U.S. natural gas exports via pipeline and as liquefied natural gas (LNG).

WhiteWater Midstream, EnLink Midstream, Devon Energy Corp., and MPLX LP will move forward with the construction of the Matterhorn Express Pipeline after securing sufficient firm transportation agreements with shippers.

Sempra Infrastructure recently announced it has signed a participation agreement with TotalEnergies, Mitsui & Co., and Mitsubishi Corporation for the development of the proposed Hackberry Carbon Sequestration (HCS) project in Southwest Louisiana.

ConocoPhillips submitted on Monday a plan to develop an oil discovery in the Norwegian North Sea for 10.5 billion Norwegian crowns ($1.10 billion), the first of an expected rush of new petroleum projects to be launched in Norway this year.

Mitsui & Co., Ltd. one of the leading ammonia marketers in the world, and CF Industries Holdings, Inc., the world’s largest producer of ammonia, plan to jointly develop a greenfield ammonia production facility in the United States.

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bp intends to invest up to £18 billion in the UK’s energy system by the end of 2030, demonstrating bp’s firm commitment to the UK, and helping the country to deliver on its bold ambitions to boost energy security and reach net zero.

Chevron, Talos Energy, and Carbonvert recently announced a memorandum of understanding for an expanded joint venture to develop the Bayou Bend CCS offshore carbon capture and sequestration hub in Texas.

MPLX is moving forward with the expansion of its Whistler Pipeline in the Permian Basin, increasing the mainline capacity from 2 Bcf/d to 2.5 Bcf/d through the planned installation of three new compressor stations.

Energy Transfer LP recently announced it has secured two long term Sale and Purchase Agreements for liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its Lake Charles LNG project.

A major Pemex oil refinery under construction in Mexico is running billions over budget and unlikely to come online this year as promised, despite being a presidential priority.

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Veolia has launched the world's largest biorefinery project producing CO2-neutral biofuel from pulp production.

Dangote's 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) oil refinery being built in Nigeria is due to begin production by the fourth quarter of 2022, Group Executive Devakumar Edwin said on Sunday.

Tellurian recently announced it will begin construction of phase one of its Driftwood LNG export facility near Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Vietnam is seeking to build its third oil refinery to meet domestic consumption demand as the country is facing a supply shortage and soaring energy prices.

Messer has announced an over $50 million investment to build a large-scale air separation unit (ASU) in McGregor, Texas. It is the first Messer plant to be powered by a co-located renewable energy source, helping to reduce carbon footprint.

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Essar Oil UK, the leading UK-focused downstream energy company, recently announced plans to install a new £45 million ($60.8 million) furnace at its Stanlow refinery that’s capable of using hydrogen as its fuel source - a UK first.

PetroChina has started a 33.9 billion yuan ($5.33 billion) program to expand the petrochemical capacity at a subsidiary plant in northeast China and cut refined fuel production, according to a company post and state media report.

In the latest video posted on Tellurian's website, Executive Chairman Charif Souki announced that the company will begin full construction of its Driftwood LNG export terminal in Louisiana in April of this year.

Calumet has closed $50 million in project financing for the construction of a renewable hydrogen plant in Great Falls, Montana.

Chevron Phillips Chemical has announced plans to build a new propylene unit at the company’s Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, Texas. Site construction will commence in January 2022 and at its peak support 350-plus new construction jobs.

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NOLA Oil Terminal recently announced that it has begun construction on a $930 million oil and refined products terminal project in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, occupying 158 acres on the lower Mississippi River.

Borealis and ADNOC have signed a strategic partnership that confirms an USD 6.2 billion investment agreement to build the fourth Borouge facility – Borouge 4 – at the polyolefin manufacturing complex in Ruwais, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Over the next six years, ExxonMobil plans to invest more than $15 billion on lower greenhouse gas emission initiatives.

ExxonMobil plans to expand carbon capture and storage (CCS) at its LaBarge, Wyoming facility by up to 1 million metric tons of CO2.

Japan's Mitsubishi Corp says it will invest 2 trillion yen ($17.54 billion) by 2030 in alternative energies such as renewables and hydrogen to drive its decarbonization efforts and cut emissions.

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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and Air Products CEO Seifi Ghasemi recently announced a $4.5 billion clean energy complex to be built in Louisiana that will make the state a leader in the U.S. clean energy transition.

Essar Oil recently announced plans to build two blue hydrogen production hubs at its Stanlow Manufacturing Complex in Ellesmere Port for around $1 Billion.

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum recently announced that the North Dakota Development Fund has approved initial support for Cerilon Inc. to develop a major gas-to-liquids complex in North Dakota, with the initial phase estimated at $2.8 billion.

bp plans to invest $269 million in three projects at its Cherry Point Refinery in Washington state, aimed at improving the refinery’s efficiency, reducing its carbon dioxide emissions, and increasing its renewable diesel production capability.

Libya's unity government and the National Oil Corp (NOC) said on Sunday they would build a new refinery in the south that was originally planned in 1980.

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Shell will build an 820,000-tonnes-a-year biofuels facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Once built, the facility will be among the biggest in Europe to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel made from waste.

IMTT recently announced it will build additional tanks, pipeline, and dock infrastructure at its Geismar, Louisiana marine terminal to handle renewable feedstocks and renewable products, including renewable diesel, biodiesel and other products.

BASF and SINOPEC plan to expand production of propionic acid, propionic aldehyde, ethyleneamines, ethanolamines and purified ethylene oxide, and build a new tert-butyl acrylate plant at their Nanjing petrochemical complex in China.

Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical plans to invest $915 million USD into building a new plant in Louisiana.

ExxonMobil and SABIC have reached mechanical completion of a monoethylene glycol unit and two polyethylene units at their Gulf Coast Growth Ventures project near Corpus Christi, Texas.

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Methanex Corporation will resume construction on its third methanol plant in Geismar, Louisiana after deferring the project more than a year ago due to the uncertain global economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Iraq has selected China's state-run CNCEC to build a new 300,000 bpd oil refinery and petrochemical plant at the port of Fao on the Gulf.

To meet increasing demand for refining catalysts, Haldor Topsoe recently announced it will build a 15,000 ton per year hydroprocessing catalyst plant at the company’s existing Bayport production site in Pasadena, Texas.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company recently announced that Reliance Industries Ltd. has signed an agreement to join a new world-scale chlor-alkali, ethylene dichloride, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production facility at TA’ZIZ in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi.

Reliance Industries, operator of the world's biggest refining complex at Jamnagar in western India, will invest $10.1 billion in clean energy over three years in a drive to become a net carbon zero company by 2035.

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Tellurian has submitted a formal application to construct and operate an approximately 37-mile interstate pipeline that will originate in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana and end in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

ExxonMobil recently announced that the company will move forward with a $247 million investment into capital improvements at its 500,000 bpd Baton Rouge Refinery.

Dow recently announced plans to build an integrated MDI distillation and prepolymers facility at its world-scale manufacturing site in Freeport, Texas.

Enable Midstream has secured FERC approval to construct and operate its Gulf Run Pipeline project, designed to transport up to 1.7 Bcf/d of natural gas from the Haynesville, Marcellus, Utica and Barnett shales to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Top Asian refiner Sinopec Corp said on Tuesday it had started a 5.17 billion yuan ($811 million) refinery upgrade at a subsidiary plant in eastern China that aims to produce cleaner fuels and boost output of higher-value chemicals.

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CP Chem recently broke ground on a new world-scale 1-hexene unit in Old Ocean, Texas. Construction on the project will start in Q3 of 2021 and is expected to involve 600 construction jobs and more than 50 full-time positions once operational.

A new renewable power–to-fertilizer plant is being built in Kenya to support the country's low carbon and inclusive growth, agricultural output, and farming communities.

Neste will modify its existing renewables production capacity at its Rotterdam facility to enable production of up to 500,000 tons of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) per year.

Repsol teams up with Enerkem to build a new waste-to-chemicals plant in Tarragona, Spain. The plant will use gasification technology to transform municipal solid waste into high value-added products such as methanol.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and CEO Paul Schubert of Strategic Biofuels LLC recently announced that the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Louisiana Green Fuels, plans to develop a renewable diesel plant near the Caldwell Parish seat of...

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Nacero Inc. recently announced plans to build a $7.0 billion lower carbon gasoline manufacturing facility in west Texas. The gasoline will be made from a combination of natural gas, captured bio-methane and mitigated flare gas.

DuPont is investing approximately $30 million to build a new adhesives manufacturing facility in East China to serve customers in the transportation industry.

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures has partnered with bio-engineering startup Cemvita Factory to construct and operate a pilot plant that will use human-made carbon dioxide, instead of hydrocarbon-sourced feedstocks, to produce bio-ethylene

Inter Pipeline announced it will receive CAD $408 million (USD $323 million) under the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program in support of the continued development of its Heartland Petrochemical Complex.

RusGazDobycha, a business partner of Russian gas giant Gazprom, plans to start building a chemical plant later this month as part of a massive gas processing cluster on the shores of the Baltic Sea.

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U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) developer Annova LNG said on Monday that it has stopped development of its proposed LNG export plant in Brownsville in Texas.

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Venture Global LNG, Inc. recently announced it has closed a $500 million term loan to fund pre-FID construction activities at the company’s Plaquemines LNG export project, as well as for general corporate purposes.

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Alaska wants to start on the first phase of the state’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant and pipeline project by seeking federal funding and working with a private firm to build a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to Fairbanks.

Eastman Chemical Company Board Chair and CEO Mark Costa and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee recently announced the company's plans to build one of the world's largest plastic-to-plastic molecular recycling facilities at its site in Kingsport, Tenn.

The Peruvian government authorized state-run Petroperú to issue up to $1 billion in bonds to complete the modernization of the country’s largest refinery, a resolution from the Ministry of Economy said on Tuesday.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s expected move to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline prompted Canada’s main oil-producing province of Alberta on Monday to threaten to seek damages as Ottawa made efforts to save the troubled project.

The co-founder of U.S. LNG developer Tellurian said Thursday that the company is targeting this summer to begin construction of its $16.8 billion Driftwood LNG export project in Louisiana as demand for the super-cooled fuel surges worldwide.

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Double E Pipeline LLC has asked U.S. energy regulators for permission to start building a 135-mile natural gas pipeline project in Texas and New Mexico.

China’s Jiasheng Gas Co Ltd, an independent gas distributor, has agreed to an engineering and construction deal to build a 2.5 billion yuan ($380 million) liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and receiving facility in east China.

China is on track to eclipse the U.S. as the world's top refining power, a position it has held since the mid-19th century, following a series of major refinery closures in the states.

A U.S. subsidiary of state-owned Thai oil and gas company PTT PCL said it is working to “move forward” a proposed petrochemical plant in Ohio that will turn ethane into plastics and provide a regional economic boost.

The first plant of Evonik's new polyamide 12 complex was completed on schedule in mid-October and is currently being commissioned. Further plants will follow by the first quarter of 2021, with full completion expected in the first half of 2021.

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Mexican Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said on Sunday that construction of the country’s new refinery at the southern Gulf coast port in Dos Bocas was almost a quarter completed.

China is reviving a $20 billion petrochemical project in eastern Shandong province as part of efforts to dial up infrastructure spending to support an economy struggling with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic

Golden Pass LNG sought permission from U.S. federal energy regulators to boost the capacity of the company’s $10 billion export terminal under construction in Texas to 18.1 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) from 15.6 MTPA.

U.S. liquefied natural gas developer NextDecade Corp said on Monday it still planned to make a final investment decision (FID) in 2020 to build its proposed Rio Grande LNG export plant in Texas.

Thai oil refiner and petrochemical producer IRPC Pcl has delayed a USD $1 billion petrochemical investment and cut run rates by 20% as demand for petroleum and petrochemical products falls amid the coronavirus outbreak

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Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. has announced that it will establish a new plant within Osaka Works, Takaishi, Osaka Prefecture, to produce the APEL™ series of cyclic olefin copolymers.

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LyondellBasell has informed the engineering and construction contractors it will slow construction of its world-scale propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) plant in Channelview, TX.

TC Energy Corporation recently announced that it will proceed with construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline Project, resulting in an investment of approximately US$8.0 billion into the North American economy.

Shell has announced it will not proceed with an equity interest in the proposed Lake Charles LNG project. Accordingly, Energy Transfer will take over as the project developer.

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Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Husky Energy has elected to suspend rebuilding its oil refinery in Superior, Wisconsin, that was damaged by an explosion and fire two years ago, the company announced Tuesday.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation has received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for its proposed Jordan Cove LNG terminal, making it the first U.S. West Coast natural gas export facility to be approved by FERC.

FERC has issued a final environmental impact statement for the proposed $43.4B Alaska LNG project, stating most adverse impacts on the environment could be lowered to less-than-significant levels by implementing the proposed mitigation measures.

Prostar Capital has announced that its newly acquired GTI Statia storage terminal will invest up to $100 million to expand and upgrade operating capacity to meet demand from new and existing customers.

Phillips 66 and Trafigura Group have formed a 50/50 joint venture, Bluewater Texas Terminal LLC, to develop an offshore deepwater port project located approximately 21 nautical miles east of the entrance to the Port of Corpus Christi.

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ExxonMobil has hired Matrix Service Inc. to build six new 500,000-barrel storage tanks, four of which will be located at ExxonMobil’s Webster Station in Webster, TX with the remaining two at its Baytown Complex in Baytown, TX.

Enterprise Products Partners LP said on Thursday it will own a 29% undivided joint interest in the Wink-to-Webster crude pipeline system and construction on the segment to Webster, Texas, is expected to be completed by the end of 2020.

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Enbridge Inc. and Enterprise Products Partners L.P. recently announced they have agreed to jointly develop and market a deep-water offshore crude oil export terminal capable of fully loading Very Large Crude Carriers.

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German chemical giant BASF has begun construction of its $10-billion integrated petrochemicals project in China's southern province of Guangdong, the company said in a statement on Saturday.

HollyFrontier recently announced a series of strategic actions, most notably: the construction of a new renewable diesel unit (RDU) at the company's Navajo Refinery in Artesia, New Mexico.

BP Midstream Partners LP is considering expanding its Mars crude oil pipeline to accommodate new volumes from offshore oil fields, Chief Financial Officer Craig Coburn said on Tuesday.

Harvest Midstream Company, an affiliate of Hilcorp Energy Company, recently announced the start of construction for the Ingleside Pipeline and the Harvest Midway Terminal.

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Although Phillips 66, the 4th largest U.S. refiner by capacity, plans to spend less on capital projects in 2020 than 2019, the company plans to execute major projects at its Sweeny (TX), Ponca City (OK), Rodeo (CA), and Humber (England) refineries.

Sempra Energy has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Mitsui & Co., LTD. reflecting the parties' preliminary agreement for Mitsui's participation in LNG projects in Louisiana and Mexico.

Peruvian state-owned oil firm Petroperú is seeking as much as $1.5 billion of government funding to complete expansion of its Talara refinery.

Enterprise Product Partners plans to build a 450,000 bpd pipeline that connects its 6 million barrel Midland, TX storage facility to its ECHO Terminal through its Eagle Ford system in South Texas.

China’s privately owned Bora Enterprise Group has started construction of a $2.5 billion petrochemicals plant in northeast China as it looks to finalize a planned joint venture with LyondellBasell Industries

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Husky Energy has received the required permit approvals to begin reconstruction activities at its damaged Superior Refinery. The rebuild will take place over the next two years with an expected return to full operations in 2021.

LyondellBasell and Enterprise Products Partners have executed long-term contracts that support construction of Enterprise’s second propane dehydrogenation (“PDH”) plant near Mont Belvieu, Texas.

Magnolia LNG has received preliminary approval from FERC to increase output at its proposed U.S. LNG plant to 8.8 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) from the currently authorized 8 mtpa.

Canadian officials will decide in coming days whether to grant environmental approval for expansion and upgrades at the North Atlantic Refining-owned refinery in Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador.

NextDecade Corporation and Enbridge Inc. recently announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly pursue the development of the Rio Bravo Pipeline (Rio Bravo) and other natural gas pipelines in South Texas.

The bp refinery in Rotterdam was able to establish a continuous digital inspection process for the first time by using the DIMATE PACS – including the digital evaluation and transmission of quality-assured inspection data to the RBI.

To better serve its customers in Louisiana, Air Liquide will invest more than $270 million in two new large Air Separation Units and infrastructure assets connected to its Mississippi River Pipeline.

Specialty chemicals company Evonik has officially begun construction on its largest investment to date in Germany.

A U.S. Gulf Coast fuel storage operator is launching its own crude processing facility to make 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) of low-sulfur fuels to comply with new environmental rules beginning in 2020, executives told Reuters on Tuesday.

Dow recently announced it will retrofit proprietary fluidized catalytic dehydrogenation (FCDh) technology into one of its mixed-feed crackers in Plaquemine, Louisiana, to produce on-purpose propylene.

Kinder Morgan, Inc. recently announced a series of projects, totaling over $170 million of capital investment, that will increase efficiency, add product liquidity, and enhance blending capabilities at its Pasadena and Galena Park terminals.

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The environmental regulator for Mexico’s oil industry said on Monday it had approved the construction of a refinery for state oil company Pemex, but imposed conditions to mitigate the environmental impact of the $8 billion project.

West Coast Olefins has secured a 300-acre site in British Columbia in preparation for the construction of a $5.6 billion petrochemical project, which will include a world-scale ethylene plant and polyethylene facility.

ExxonMobil has completed an expansion project at its Beaumont, Texas polyethylene plant, increasing plant production capacity by 65% and bringing site capacity to nearly 1.7 million tons per year.

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation is re-configuring its Al-Zour Refinery to increase the plant's output capacity of fuels and petrochemicals. When completed, it will be the largest integrated refinery and petrochemicals plant ever constructed in Kuwait

Venture Global LNG, Inc. is proud to announce that the company’s $5.8 billion Calcasieu Pass LNG construction financing has received over $10 billion in binding commitments from Initial Coordinating Lead Arrangers.

OMV, the international, integrated oil and gas company headquartered in Vienna, has made the decision to invest EUR 64 mn in the construction of an ISO C4 plant. The construction of the new plant will begin in summer 2019 at the Burghausen Refinery.

INEOS Phenol has announced it will build a world scale, state of the art cumene unit in Marl, Germany, to be completed in 2021.

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC and Qatar Petroleum have announced they have signed an agreement to jointly pursue development of a new petrochemical plant in the Gulf Coast region of the United States.

Air Liquide plans to invest nearly $140 million USD to build a new world-scale Air Separation Unit in Bay City, Texas, and add nearly eight miles of pipeline to its Gulf Coast Pipeline System

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Chevron Phillips Chemical Company and Qatar Petroleum (QP) recently signed an agreement to pursue the development, construction and operation of a petrochemicals complex in Qatar to produce ethylene and high-density polyethylene (HDPE).

Vitol, the world’s largest independent oil trader, has started building a small oil refinery at its storage terminal in Malaysia that will provide low-sulphur fuel for ships, a senior company official said on Monday.

Over the next 18 months, Phillips 66 plans to modify units at its Wood River and Bayway refineries to reduce high-sulfur fuel oil production in accordance with certain changes to marine fuel rules.

India’s Maharashtra state has identified a new site for the planned $44 billion oil refinery that state-run firms are building with Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC), Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Wednesday.

Canada, as expected on Tuesday, approved a hotly contested proposal to expand the Trans Mountain oil pipeline it bought last year.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp gave the go-ahead on Tuesday for the construction of a $20 billion gas liquefaction and export terminal in Mozambique.

ExxonMobil and SABIC have decided to proceed with the construction of a chemical facility and a 1.8 million metric ton ethane steam cracker in San Patricio County, Texas.

ExxonMobil today said that it has completed an expansion at its Singapore refinery to upgrade its production of EHC™ Group II base stocks.

Phillips 66 and Bridger Pipeline LLC have formed a 50/50 joint venture to build the Liberty Pipeline, a 24-inch pipeline providing crude oil transportation service from the Rockies and Bakken production areas to Cushing, Oklahoma.

INEOS will invest $2 billion in building its first ever manufacturing plants in Saudi Arabia, in what is believed to be one of the largest UK investments ever in the Kingdom.

Sasol has announced the beneficial operation of its new ethylene oxide (EO) production facility at its Lake Charles Chemicals Project (LCCP)

Enterprise Products Partners is extending its ethylene pipeline and logistics system 90 miles further into South Texas, a leading growth area for new crackers and ethylene derivative plants.

Venture Global LNG and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners have executed definitive agreements under which Stonepeak will exclusively provide a $1.3 billion equity investment in Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility in Cameron Parish,...

Delek US President and CEO Uzi Yemin announced Thursday the energy company is upgrading its Krotz Springs refinery over five years, creating 30 new jobs with average annual salaries of $90,000 plus benefits.

Sempra has asked FERC for a 15-month extension to complete the Cameron LNG export plant and put it into full service by September of 2020.

Lotte Chemical USA and Westlake Chemical Corporation hosted an official opening ceremony on May 9, 2019, for their joint-venture Ethylene and the Lotte Chemical world-scale Ethylene Glycol (EG) Production Facility near Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards and Shell Chemicals VP for Gulf Coast Manufacturing Rhoman Hardy announced the company will advance feasibility plans for a potential $1.2 billion manufacturing expansion at its Shell Geismar facility in Louisiana.

Heavy, sour crude oil processed by U.S. refiners has become more expensive, eating up hoped-for profit windfalls before they even materialized, forcing refiners to rethink plans to invest more in heavy crude processing units.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday that they will not be considering private sector suiters for the project, opting to allow Pemex to oversee the construction of the new oil refinery instead.

ExxonMobil will proceed with a $2 billion investment to expand its Baytown chemical plant, which will create around 2,000 jobs during construction and contribute to the approximate 15 percent return the company expects from its chemical investments.

ExxonMobil has made a final investment decision to expand the Fawley refinery in the United Kingdom to increase production of ultra-low sulfur diesel by almost 45 percent, or 38,000 barrels per day, along with logistics improvements.

Kinder Morgan Inc’s proposed Gulf liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant in Mississippi took a step toward receiving federal approval for construction on Wednesday after staff at the federal energy regulator prepared an environmental report.

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Wednesday said the Trump administration would soon issue an executive order that would open the door for more natural gas pipelines and exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG.

Tellurian Inc. and Total S.A. recently announced that the two companies have signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) for Total to make a $500 million equity investment in the integrated Driftwood LNG project.

Ecuador will launch an international bidding round for the construction of a new 300,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery and making upgrades to the 110,000 bpd Esmeraldas Refinery.

Aruba will resume a refurbishment project at a 209,000 barrel-per-day refinery operated by a unit of Citgo Petroleum Corp, the island’s prime minister said on Sunday, after a change to U.S. sanctions on Citgo parent PDVSA last week.

Royal Dutch Shell has struck a deal with Dutch tank terminal firm HES International to partially restart a German oil refinery mothballed since 2011 in response to new restrictions on marine fuels.

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company recently announced it is building the world’s largest oil storage facility, with a capacity of 42 million barrels of crude oil, in the Emirate of Fujairah on the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates.

Bayport Polymers LLC (Baystar™) held its official groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new 625,000 metric ton-per-year Borstar® polyethylene unit at its production site in Pasadena, Texas, with an anticipated start-up in 2021.

ExxonMobil recently announced that it will fund the construction of a new polypropylene production unit in Baton Rouge that will expand production capacity along the Gulf Coast by up to 450,000 tons per year.

Pertamina plans to double its refining capacity to 2 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2026 from around 1 million bpd currently

Halliburton Company recently announced it will build the first oilfield chemical manufacturing reaction plant in Saudi Arabia.

Vitol, 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.

Meridian 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.

Noble 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.

The 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.

Saudi Aramco with its partner Total recently announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Daelim, a South Korean petrochemical company, to build a new 80,000 tons state-of-the-art Polyisobutylene (PIB) plant in Jubail.

ExxonMobil recently reached a final investment decision and started construction on a new unit at its Beaumont, Texas refinery that will increase crude refining capacity by more than 65 percent, or 250,000 barrels per day.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released its annual list of the 10 most frequently cited safety and health violations. In 2017 Fall Protection, Hazard Communication, and Scaffolding once again...

U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp has withdrawn its WCC liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Canada from the environmental assessment process, it said on Thursday, signaling that the project has been shelved.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity will reach 8.9 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) by the end of 2019, making it the third largest in the world behind Australia and Qatar.

Over the next two years, EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) projects growth in U.S. consumption of ethane in the petrochemical industry will exceed increases in consumption of all other petroleum and liquid products—such as motor gasoline,...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released its annual list of the 10 most frequently cited safety and health violations. In 2017 Fall Protection, Hazard Communication, and Scaffolding once again...

Three new pipeline projects in the northeast received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in October, the first projects to be approved since February. FERC regained its quorum in August after the Senate confirmed two new...

Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Judith G. Garber has issued Presidential permits for three NuStar Logistics, L.P. pipelines.

ExxonMobil's "Growing the Gulf" expansion program, consists of 11 major chemical, refining, lubricant and liquefied natural gas projects at proposed new and existing facilities along the Texas and Louisiana coasts.