An Oklahoman’s background in oil is not a scandal

Gasp! While he was attorney-general of Oklahoma, the new administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency had regular communication with oil and gas companies. Oh no! Scott Pruitt actually tried to help some them. Source: News

ORPIC: Sohar refinery expansion due for commissioning

Oman Oil Refineries & Petroleum Industries Co. (ORPIC) has completed all construction and precommissioning works for the multibillion-dollar Sohar Refinery Improvement Project (SRIP), a long-planned, brownfield modernization program to technically enhance the operator’s existing 116,000-b/d refinery about 230 km northwest of Muscat. Source: News

Contract let for Uzbekistan gas processing complex

Russia’s privately held PJSC Lukoil and Uzbekistan’s National Holding Co. Uzbekneftegaz, through a contractor, have let a contract to Frames Group BV, Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, to provide desalting equipment for their jointly owned Kandym gas processing complex now under construction in southwestern Uzbekistan’s province of Bukhara, about 520 km southwest of Tashkent. […]

Whitehead appointed Marathon Oil EVP, CFO

Dane Whitehead has joined Marathon Oil Corp. as executive vice-president and chief financial officer with an anticipated effective date of Mar. 6. Source: News