Total SA has commissioned a $100-million hydro de-aromatization (HDA) plant at its petrochemical manufacturing site in Bayport, Tex., that will produce a range of 40 different high-purity special fluids for use in a variety of industrial applications for US and international customers. Source: News

Petroleum Exploration (Pvt.) Ltd. (PEL), a privately owned Pakistani company, has identified a hydrocarbon-bearing zone in the Lower Guru formation with its Aminah-1 exploration well drilled on Badin South block in the Sajjawal (Sindh) district. Source: News

More than 400 saltwater disposal wells covering 5,000 sq miles of central Oklahoma are part of an expanded earthquake response plan to deal with the state’s rise in earthquake activity. Disposal wells in the deep Arbuckle formation have been associated with induced seismicity. Source: News

India is poised to replace China as the world’s center of oil-demand growth, according to authors of a study published by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Source: News

Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Perth, has terminated its contract with Malaysia’s Bumi Armada for the charter of the Armada Claire floating production, storage, and offloading vessel, which is stationed in Balnaves oil field in the Carnarvon basin offshore northwest Australia. Source: News