Rosneft PJSC expects to complete an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for construction of a natural gas pipeline able to supply electric power plants and factories in the Kurdish region of Iraq and to export as much as 30 billion cu m/year of gas to Turkey and Europe. Source: News

MPLX LP subsidiary Marathon Pipe Line LLC will move forward with its planned 130,000-b/d expansion of the Wood River-to-Patoka crude oil pipeline after completing a binding open season on Aug. 31. Source: News

Reducing government corruption will require more than simply requiring companies, particularly in extractive industries, to publicly disclose more financial and operating data, speakers agreed at a Sept. 18 Brookings Institution event. Information should be more readily available and reach people in communities that are directly affected, they said. Source: News

Light, sweet crude oil for October delivery edged up slightly on Sept. 18 to settle just above $49.90/bbl. Oil prices continued gaining in early Sept. 19 trading after comments were made by an Iraqi official regarding a possible extension of the existing production-cut targets by major producers. Source: News

Canadians soon must confront the incendiary question of climate-change politics: How much sacrifice will people make in pursuit of doubtful benefit? Source: News

Matt Corbin has joined Sparrows Group as its regional operations director for the UK and Europe. Based in Aberdeen, he will support the company’s growth in the oil and gas, renewables, and industrial sectors. Source: News

Crude oil output from the seven major US onshore producing regions is forecast to increase 79,000 b/d month-over-month in October to 6.083 million b/d, the US Energy Information Administration said in its latest monthly Drilling Productivity Report. Source: News