Southcross ends $3-billion combine deal with American Midstream

Southcross Energy Partners LP has terminated its agreement to merge with American Midstream Partners LP citing AMP’s failure to achieve required conditions. In October 2017, AMP had proposed to merge Southcross Energy into a wholly owned subsidiary of AMP. Source: News

DNO passes Peshkabir production target with fourth well

Norway’s DNO ASA is accelerating field development after production on a fourth well at Peshkabir field in Iraq’s Kurdistan region pushed total field output past its 30,000-b/d target. Source: News

PentaNova Energy to be renamed CruzSur

PentaNova Energy Corp., Vancouver, BC, will be renamed CruzSur Energy Corp. after a consolidation of its issued and outstanding share capital and reorganization of the board of directors. Source: News

Inpex starts gas production from Ichthys field

The Inpex Corp.-led consortium at Ichthys gas-condensate field in the Browse basin 220 km offshore Western Australia has started natural gas production from its subsea wells to the massive 120,000-tonne Ichthys Explorer production platform. Source: News

IOC lets contract for clean-fuels projects at Indian refineries

Indian Oil Corp. has let a contract to Honeywell UOP to provide pressure-swing adsorption technology for supply of high-quality hydrogen at five refineries as part of the operator’s effort to produce clean-burning fuels complying with the Indian government’s strict Bharat Stage VI environmental standards. Source: News

Watching Government: Fresh ideas at Interior

Soon after he became Secretary, Ryan Zinke began to discuss possible ways that the US Department of the Interior could be improved. Source: News

Fluor progresses on project at Marathon’s Galveston Bay refinery

Marathon Petroleum Corp. has reached substantial engineering completion for the Tier 3 gasoline sulfur standard reconfiguration project at Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s 571,000-b/d Galveston Bay refinery in Texas City, Tex. Source: News