Westlake Chemical Corp., Houston, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Axiall Corp., Atlanta, to become the third-largest chloralkali producer and the second-largest polyvinyl chloride (PVC) producer in North America. Source: News

Rompetrol Rafinare SA, a subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s state-owned KazMunayGas, has brought forward planned maintenance at its 5 million-tonne/year Petromidia refinery in Navodari, Romania, on the Black Sea, following an August fire that previously shuttered one of the plant’s major processing units. Source: News

Production of natural gas and condensate has begun from Oil & Natural Gas Corp.’s Daman project in the Arabian Sea offshore India (OGJ Online, Apr. 14, 2016). The project’s first well, C24-P4 No. 3, flowed 3.8 MMcfd of sweet gas and 176 b/d of condensate.  Source: News

Shell Offshore Inc. has reported the start of production from the company’s wholly owned and operated Stones development in the Walker Ridge area of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Production from Stones field, 200 miles southwest of New Orleans, is expected to reach 50,000 boe/d when fully ramped up at yearend 2017. Source: News

State oil firm Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname NV has completed and fully commissioned a 10-year project to more than double crude oil processing capacity at its Tout Lui Faut refining complex about 12 miles south of Suriname’s capital city of Paramaribo (OGJ Online, Sept. 9, 2009). Source: News

Gazprom and RusGazDobycha, part of National Chemical Group, have signed an agreement that will guide formation of a joint company to assess development of three natural gas fields in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area of Russia. Source: News