Daniel J. Weaver has been named president and executive director of the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association (PIOGA). The move is effective Sept. 1. Source: News

Unipetrol AS is preparing for a gradual restart of its 544,000-tonne/year (tpy) ethylene plant in the Chempark Zaluzi petrochemical complex in Litvinov, Czech Republic, after completing a more than 10-month reconstruction of the steam cracker, which was shuttered following an August 2015 explosion and ensuing fire at the site. Source: News

Operators began returning workers to evacuated installations in the Gulf of Mexico Aug. 31 as Tropical Depression No. 9 built into Tropical Storm Hermine and turned away from oil and gas producing areas toward the northwestern Florida Coast. Source: News

BP PLC and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) have signed a second production-sharing contract (PSC) for shale gas exploration, development, and production covering a 1,000-sq km area at Rong Chang Bei in the Sichuan basin. Source: News

State-owned Pertamina of Indonesia and Andalas Energy & Power PLC of Douglas, Isle of Man, have signed an agreement to develop marginal gas fields to supply fuel for mobile or modular power plants in three Indonesia provinces. Source: News

Iran will hold its first tender of an oil field for development under a new contract model on Oct. 21. Source: News