NEORI asks House leaders to include provision in tax legislation

Members of the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative (NEORI) coalition asked US House Ways and Means Committee leaders to include a provision to extend and strengthen the Section 45Q Tax Credit for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration as part of any comprehensive tax reform package that the 115th Congress considers. Source: News


Yuhuang Chemical lets contract for Louisiana methanol complex

Yuhuang Chemical Inc. (YCI), a subsidiary of China’s Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Co. Ltd. (SYCC), has let a contract to a division of Amec Foster Wheeler PLC (AFW) to supply an auxiliary boiler for YCI’s proposed $1.85-billion methanol manufacturing complex now under construction along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, La. Source: News


Congressional GOP flexes muscles

Remember those complaints about congressional gridlock keeping elected US federal legislators from getting anything done? Republicans now in control of both sides of the Capitol seem intent on making such criticism history. Source: News


Pipeline construction plans shrink

Planned pipeline construction to be completed in 2017 slipped 27% from the previous year, with expected products, crude, and natural gas project completions all falling. Source: News


Iran schedules upstream tender for Feb. 15

Iran has set its long-delayed tender for upstream oil and gas projects for Feb. 15. It’s the first such tender since international sanctions were lifted from the country in early 2016. Source: News


CARB releases modifications to proposed oil and gas GHG limits

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released modifications on Feb. 3 to its proposed limits of greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations in the state. Comments will be accepted through Feb. 21, and a public hearing will be held on Mar. 23, it indicated. Source: News


Chinese refiner lets contract for alkylation unit

Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum (Group) Co. Ltd. (SYPC) has let a contract to CB&I, Houston, to provide technology licensing and related services for an alkylation unit at its 161,000-b/d refinery at Yanan City in China’s Shaanxi Province. Source: News


Guide to world crudes: Statoil updates Mondo crude assay

Based on a sample taken Aug. 8, 2016, Statoil ASA in late October 2016 issued an updated commercial assay of medium-gravity, low-sulfur Mondo crude, part of the Kizomba C development on Block 15, about 90 miles off Angola. Source: News