The US Chemical Safety Board issued a 12-min safety video about its investigation into a 2013 fire and explosion at the Williams olefins plant in Geismar, La., that killed 2 workers and injured 167 others. The accident occurred when a heat exchanger containing flammable liquid propane violently ruptured, CSB said. Source: News

Empire Oil & Gas NL, Perth, has confirmed a light oil play in its Red Gully North-1 gas discovery in the onshore north Perth basin of Western Australia. Source: News

Dangote Oil Refining Co. (DORC), a division of Nigerian conglomerate Dangote Industries Ltd. (DIL), has let a contract to MAN Diesel & Turbo SE (MDT), Augsburg, Germany, to provide equipment and associated technology services for its grassroots integrated refining complex now under construction in southwestern Nigeria’s Lekki Free Trade Zone, near the capital of Lagos. […]

Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) has received approval from the Canadian government for the Towerbirch Expansion Project in northwest Alberta and northeast British Columbia. Source: News

Wood Group PLC has agreed to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of fellow oil field services firm Amec Foster Wheeler PLC in a deal valued at $2.7 billion. Source: News

Seven companies have been awarded contracts for 10 million bbl of crude oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the US Department of Energy announced on Mar. 10. Source: News

The crude oil benchmarks in New York and London dropped to 3-month lows on Mar. 13 amid continued fears about oversupply from the US, heightened by the country’s expanding oil-directed rig count. Source: News