Enbridge Energy LP received a presidential permit from the US State Department authorizing it to increase transport up to full design capacity of roughly 890,000 b/d across a 3-mile segment of its Line 67 Alberta Clipper crude oil pipeline at the US-Canada border near Neche, ND, for continued shipment to an existing Enbridge terminal in […]

CNOOC Oil & Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., the refining arm of China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), has commissioned the Phase 2 expansion of subsidiary CNOOC Huizhou Refining & Chemical Co. Ltd.’s (CHRCC) 12 million-tonne/year integrated refining complex at the Daya Bay Economic & Technological Development Zone in Huizhou in China’s Guangdong province. Source: News

Honghua Group Ltd. has let a $12-million front-end engineering and design contract to Wood PLC for its LNG platform development in the Gulf of Mexico’s West Delta area. Source: News

Plains All American Pipeline LP, Marathon Petroleum Corp., and BP Oil Pipeline Co. are launching a nonbinding open season to gauge shipper interest in a proposed reversal of their 40-in., 1.2 million-b/d Capline pipeline that transports crude oil from St. James, La., to Patoka, Ill. Source: News

Sydney and Port Moresby company Oil Search Ltd. has notched up its highest ever production volumes during the third quarter, most of it thanks to the rise in output from the ExxonMobil Corp.-operated Papua New Guinea-LNG project. Source: News