Thailand’s PTTGC takes FID on olefins plant at Map Ta Phut

PTT Global Chemical Public Co. Ltd. (PTTGC) has approved a $985-million project to build an olefins plant as part of an expansion of its existing operations at Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in Thailand’s Rayong Province.   Source: News

Climate, technology seen as main forces in Canada’s energy future

Rapidly evolving climate policies and technological breakthroughs appear likely to have the biggest impacts in Canada’s energy future, forecasters from that country’s National Energy Board suggested on Jan. 23. Source: News

India’s ONGC to acquire majority stake in HPCL

India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. has agreed to purchase the government of India’s majority interest in Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd., which operates refineries in Mumbai and Visakhapatnam and a joint-venture refinery in Bathinda.  Source: News

Brazos Midstream lets contract for Delaware basin gas plant

Brazos Midstream Holdings LLC, Fort Worth, has let a contract to a division of Honeywell UOP LLC to deliver a third cryogenic natural gas processing plant to extract NGLs from gas produced in the southern Delaware basin.  Source: News

Samson Oil & Gas to sell Foreman Butte project

Samson Oil & Gas Ltd., Perth, has executed a nonbinding letter of intent to sell its Foreman Butte project, consisting of substantially all of its assets, to Firehawk Oil & Gas LLC, Denver, for $41.5 million. Source: News