PetroChina wraps unit revamp at Qinzhou refining complex

PetroChina Co. Ltd.—the publicly listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC)—has completed a project to retrofit an existing pressure-swing adsorption (PSA) unit at subsidiary CNPC Guangxi Petrochemical Co.’s 10 million-tonne/year Qinzhou integrated refining complex in China’s Gaungxi province with proprietary process technology from Honeywell UOP LLC. Source: News

More refineries, Colonial Pipeline lines restarting after Harvey

US Gulf Coast refiners and shippers continue to restore operations amid possible damages and logistical constraints caused by Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey. Meanwhile, upstream firms are still monitoring the midstream and downstream recovery to determine how much oil and gas they can produce. Source: News

Centrica lets contract for Fogelberg appraisal in 2018

Centrica PLC has let a drilling contract to Island Drilling Co. AS for an appraisal well in 2018 at the 2010 Fogelberg natural gas discovery in the Haltenbanken area of the Norwegian Sea.   Source: News

DOE proposes rule change to expedite small-scale US gas exports

The US Department of Energy proposed a rule that would allow it to authorize natural gas exports of as much as 140 MMcfd to customers in countries that do not have a free-trade agreement with the US, providing the application does not require an environmental impact statement or assessment under the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act. Comments […]