Report lists consequences without more gas pipelines in US Northeast

A lack of interstate natural gas pipelines in the US Northeast has led to some of the nation’s highest electricity costs, and the situation will become worse if more are not built, the US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy warned in an Apr. 24 report. Source: News

Canada delays methane-emission regulation

The Canadian government is delaying by 3 years the start of a crackdown on methane emissions by the oil and gas industry. Source: News

Kashagan production said to be on target

Production at giant Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea off Kazakhstan is on track to reach a targeted 370,000 b/d by yearend. Source: News

Mnuchin statement rejects ExxonMobil bid for Russia sanctions waiver

The Trump administration will not be issuing waivers to ExxonMobil Corp. and other US companies authorizing oil and gas drilling currently prohibited by sanctions against Russia. US Treasury Sec. Steven T. Mnuchin’s Apr. 21 statement came following reports days earlier that the US multinational oil company sought permission to resume operations in the Black Sea […]

BPCL commissions unit at Mumbai refinery

India’s state-owned Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL) has completed conversion of the catalytic reforming unit (CRU) at its 12 million-tonne/year Mumbai refinery into a light naphtha isomerization unit as part of the refiner’s program to comply with the Indian government’s nationwide mandate of producing 100% Bharat Stage 4 (BS 4, or Euro 4-equivalent) fuels, which […]

Parco lets contract for Mid-Country refinery

Pak-Arab Refinery Ltd. (Parco), Karachi, has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC and Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS), both divisions of Honeywell International Inc., to provide process technologies and advanced automated controls for a project designed to increase output of cleaner transportation fuels from its 4.5 million-tonne/year Mid-Country refinery at Mahmood Kot, 65 km north […]