API: US petroleum demand highest for August since 2007

Total US petroleum deliveries, a measure of petroleum demand, moved up 1.3% in August from a year ago to average 20.5 million b/d, marking the highest August deliveries in 10 years, according to data from the American Petroleum Institute. Source: News

Chengzhi Yongqing lets contract for second MTO unit

Nanjing Chengzhi Yongqing Energy Technology Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Chengzhi Shareholding Co. Ltd., the investment arm of China’s Tsinghua University, has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Ill., to deliver technology licensing for a grassroots methanol-to-olefins (MTO) unit at its existing coal-to-chemical complex in the Changlu area of Nanjing Chemical Industrial […]

US House chairman asks CEOs about Russia’s use of social media to affect energy

US House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) asked the chief executives of Facebook, Twitter Inc., and Alphabet Inc. for documents relating to Russian entities’ purchases of advertising against hydraulic fracturing and fossil fuels. Source: News

Turkey backs Iraq on oil after Kurdish vote

The government of Turkey said it will deal exclusively with the Iraqi government on oil exports after voters in the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq supported independence in a controversial referendum. Source: News