Executive power in the US encountered limits—of all things— during the third full week of June. Source: News

Alan Snider has been named president and chief operating officer at Laney Directional Drilling Co., a Houston firm that specializes in integrated engineering, horizontal directional drilling, and direct pipe construction services. Source: News

Malaysian firm Sona Petroleum Bhd. is to be liquidated following the overwhelming shareholder veto of the proposed purchase of producing Stag oil field offshore Western Australia. Source: News

Monroe Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines Inc., has let a contract to KBR Inc. to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services for an ultralow-sulfur gasoline (ULSG) project at the company’s 185,000-b/d refinery in Trainer, Pa., near Philadelphia. Source: News

Oil pipelines are “urgently needed” in Canada, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said in its 2016 Crude Oil Forecast, Markets, and Transportation report. Source: News

US President Barack Obama signed S. 2276, the 2016 pipeline safety reauthorization bill, on June 21. The bill became law more than a week after the US Senate approved a version with House amendments and sent it to the White House. Source: News