Nichols elevated to HR EVP at Marathon Petroleum

Rodney P. Nichols has been promoted to Marathon Petroleum Corp. executive vice-president of human resources, health, and administrative services, effective immediately. Source: News


Vietnam’s first petrochemical complex project advances

Siam Cement Public Co. Ltd. (SCG) subsidiary Vina SCG Chemicals Co. Ltd. (VSCG) has entered a share purchase agreement with Qatar Petroleum International Ltd. (QPI) to acquire all of subsidiary QPI Vietnam Ltd.’s (QPIV) 25% equity stake in Long Son Petrochemical Co. Ltd.’s (LSP) long-delayed project to build Vietnam’s first petrochemical complex on Long Son […]


BSEE issues investigative report on fatal gulf accident

A series of failures to apply basic safety management practices may have contributed to an assistant driller’s death in a Mar. 16, 2016, accident on Gulf of Mexico Green Canyon Block 18, the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said as it released a report of its investigation. Source: News


Horseshoe discovery extends Alaska North Slope play

Two exploration wells drilled by Repsol SA and Armstrong Energy LLC—Horseshoe 1 and the 1A sidetrack—have extended the Nanushuk play more than 20 miles south of the existing discoveries in the same interval in Alaska North Slope’s Pikka Unit. Source: News