Dangote Oil Refining Co. (DORC), a division of Nigerian conglomerate Dangote Industries Ltd. (DIL), has let a contract to MAN Diesel & Turbo SE (MDT), Augsburg, Germany, to provide equipment and associated technology services for its grassroots integrated refining complex now under construction in southwestern Nigeria’s Lekki Free Trade Zone, near the capital of Lagos. […]
Canada okays NGTL’s Towerbirch expansion project
Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) has received approval from the Canadian government for the Towerbirch Expansion Project in northwest Alberta and northeast British Columbia. Source: News
Wood Group to buy Amec Foster Wheeler for $2.7 billion
Wood Group PLC has agreed to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of fellow oil field services firm Amec Foster Wheeler PLC in a deal valued at $2.7 billion. Source: News
DOE announces contract awards from the first sale of SPR crude
Seven companies have been awarded contracts for 10 million bbl of crude oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the US Department of Energy announced on Mar. 10. Source: News
MARKET WATCH: US oil supply threatens recent market stability
The crude oil benchmarks in New York and London dropped to 3-month lows on Mar. 13 amid continued fears about oversupply from the US, heightened by the country’s expanding oil-directed rig count. Source: News
New perils emerge for oil ports and politics in Libya
Fighting has intensified around three Libyan terminals through which oil exports resumed last September after the lifting of a blockade in place nearly 2 years. Source: News
EPA withdraws oil and gas industry data collection request
The US Environmental Protection Agency withdrew a request that oil and gas industry owners and operators provide information about equipment and emissions at existing operations. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said he ordered the Mar. 2 move after deciding that he wanted to reassess the need for the information collection request (ICR). Source: News
Senate approves Zinke's nomination as next Interior Secretary
The US Senate approved President Donald J. Trump’s nomination of Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) to be Secretary of the Interior by 68 to 31 votes on Mar. 1 as several Democrats joined Republicans in affirming the selection. Source: News
Watching Government: Building a better ESA
Wyoming Gov. Matthew H. Mead (R) launched an endangered species initiative when he became chairman of the Western Governors Association 18 months ago. Once WGA adopted it at its annual meeting this past June, Mead decided to bring it to the National Governors Association’s recent 2017 Winter Meeting in Washington, DC. Source: News
Oil and gas groups welcome White House's change in tone
US oil and gas associations welcome changes in the policymaking tone at the White House and look forward to working with the Trump administration, officials said in statements before and after US President Donald J. Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28. Source: News