Americas
BP, Dow Chemical plants in Texas City lose power as regional outages continue
The BP chemical plant in Texas City, Texas, lost power on Wednesday morning, marking the latest in a string of outages for the area’s numerous plants and refineries - including nearby producer Dow Chemical.
Rising US retail gasoline costs have yet to significantly dampen demand - report
Higher retail gasoline prices are not significantly changing the habits of US drivers, allowing demand to remain mostly flat on a year-on-year basis, according to data released this week from MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse report.
Safety milestone reached by AltairStrickland during BP Texas City turnaround work
AltairStrickland, a process plant turnaround (TAR) engineering, management and maintenance firm, said it recently set a major safety milestone as part of its 2011 turnaround work at BP’s Texas City refinery.
Cyanco to build new sodium cyanide plant at Ascend site in Texas
Cyanco plans to construct a new 55,000 metric ton/year sodium cyanide plant at the Ascend Performance Materials site in Alvin, Texas.
Chevron awards $65mn contract to KBR for base oil expansion at Mississippi refinery
KBR has been awarded a $65mn contract for a base oil expansion project at Chevron’s refinery in Pascagoula, Miss., the global engineering and construction firm announced on Wednesday.
Holly Corp. shuts down crude unit at Tulsa refinery
Holly Corp. has shut down its West facility crude unit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, due to a mechanical failure that was discovered on Friday night.
New crude oil pipeline to be constructed from Oklahoma storage hub to Houston
Enterprise Products Partners and Energy Transfer Partners have agreed to form a 50/50 joint venture to design and construct a crude oil pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma to Houston. The project would allow greater access to US Gulf-area refining complexes and add approximately 500,000 barrels of storage capacity at new facilities to be constructed and owned by the joint venture at Enterprise’s new Houston crude oil terminal.
CB&I awarded over $45mn to build storage tanks for Canadian oil sands project
CB&I has been awarded a project in excess of $45mn to build storage tanks at a Canadian oil sands project near Fort McMurray, Alberta.
BP, Gulf alliance seek Deepwater Horizon study proposals for $500mn research program
BP and the Gulf of Mexico Alliance announced that the independent research board of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GRI) is requesting proposals for studies into the effects of the Deepwater Horizon incident and the potential associated impact on environment and public health.
Technip awarded design contract for Canada oil sands project
Technip subsidiary KTI Corp. was awarded a purchase order by Snamprogetti Canada to design and supply 10 once through steam generation (OTSG) units for the first phase of the Sunrise energy project in Canada.
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