Gulf of Mexico producers become Talos Energy Inc.

Talos Energy LLC, Houston, and Stone Energy Corp., Lafayette, La., have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction creating a Gulf of Mexico producer named Talos Energy Inc. Source: News

Kuwait lets contract for Al-Zour refinery expansion project

Kuwait Petroleum Corp.’s (KPC) newly formed subsidiary Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co.(KIPIC) has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC to provide a range of process technologies for the already proposed expansion of KIPIC’s grassroots 615,000-b/d Al-Zour refinery complex still under construction in southern Kuwait Source: News

Saudi Aramco, SABIC advance plan for crude oil-to-chemicals complex

Saudi Aramco and Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) have formalized a previously announced agreement to conduct a joint feasibility study for the development of a fully integrated crude oil-to-chemicals (COTC) complex in Saudi Arabia (OGJ Online, June 28, 2016). Source: News

Compromise compromised

Rachel Notley took office negotiating and 2 years on fights to keep it. The grand compromise by which the Alberta premier and her New Democratic Party hoped to accommodate both energy development and climate mitigation isn’t working. Climate activists win or lose; they don’t compromise. Source: News

Remembering Bob Biolchini

Robert F. “Bob” Biolchini, long-time Tulsa attorney, president and chief executive officer of PennWell Corp., and owner of several banks in northeastern Oklahoma and Wyoming, died Nov. 8 in Jackson Hole, Wyo. He was 78. Source: News

ExxonMobil to merge R&M divisions, appoints president

ExxonMobil Corp. reported it will combine its refining and marketing operations into a single company—ExxonMobil Fuels & Lubricants Co.—in first-quarter 2018. Bryan Milton, currently president of ExxonMobil Fuels, Lubricants & Specialties Marketing Co., was appointed president of the combined division by the company’s board, effective Jan. 1, 2018. Source: News