The Trinidad and Tobago government is threatening to market its share of its natural gas and not leave it up to the partners of Atlantic LNG (ALNG). Source: News

Utah’s state government sued the US Departments of the Interior and Agriculture for adopting a new greater sage grouse management plan on Sept. 18, 2015, which allegedly overthrew the state’s own 2013 conservation plan for the bird. Source: News

LyondellBasell, Houston, has completed the sale of its wholly owned subsidiary Petroken Petroquimica Ensenada SA (Petroken), which operates a 180,000-tonne/year polypropylene plant in the port city of Ensenada, 50 km southeast of Buenos Aires. Source: News

SOCAR Polymer LLC, a subsidiary of state-owned State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), has let an engineering, construction, and procurement (EPC) contract to Maire Tecnimont SPA, Milan, for a grassroots polyethylene plant to be built in the Sumgait Chemical Industrial Park (SCIP), about 30 km north of Baku. Source: News

Flint Hills Resources LLC (FHR), Wichita, Kan., plans to invest $750 million to execute projects that would further improve both energy efficiency as well as clean fuels production at its 339,000-b/d Pine Bend refinery at Rosemount, Minn. Source: News

The US drilling rig count began February with its largest decline in nearly 11 months, plunging 48 units to 571 during the week ended Feb. 5, according to data from Baker Hughes Inc. Source: News