Dubai-based MEGlobal International FZE, a subsidiary of Kuwait’s first international petrochemical joint venture Equate Petrochemical Co., has let a contract to Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., to deliver technology licensing for its first US monoethylene glycol (MEG) manufacturing plant, which will be located at Dow’s Oyster Creek petrochemical complex in Freeport, Tex. Source: News

The planned acquisition of “bolt-on” acreage in the Lower Triassic Montney resource play of British Columbia from Paramount Resources Ltd. will enable Seven Generations Energy Ltd. to increase well lengths in an expanded drilling program, the buyer said. Source: News

Courtney McShane has joined Willbros Group Inc. as director of business development for the Marcellus shale region and eastern seaboard. Source: News

The Jacana 3 appraisal well drilled by GeoPark Ltd. on Colombia’s Llanos 34 Block flowed 1,650 b/d of 15° gravity oil with 1% water cut through a 43/64-in. choke at 50 psi wellhead pressure during a 7-day test. The well was drilled to 11,008 ft TD and produces from the Cretaceous Guadalupe formation. GeoPark said […]

Ineos AG, Rolle, Switzerland, is planning a multimillion-pound investment at subsidiary Ineos Oxide’s manufacturing site at Saltend, near Hull, UK, to expand production of a specialized solvent to be made from a main feedstock of US shale gas-derived ethylene produced at Ineos’ operations in Grangemouth, Scotland. Source: News

Keyera Corp., Calgary, has entered an agreement to double its ownership interest in the O’Chiese Nees-Ohpawganu’ck deep-cut natural gas processing plant and related pipelines in the Alder Flats in west-central Alberta. Source: News