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Pin Oak Terminals opens multi-product liquid marine terminal

Pin Oak Terminals, LLC opened the new multi-product liquid marine terminal at Pin Oak’s site in Mt. Airy, Louisiana. This is following key investment from Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. in the previous months.

Glencore, Chevron enter Mexico's recently opened fuel market

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — US energy company Chevron Corp and trading firm Glencore on Thursday announced separate plans to enter Mexico's fuel market, as the long-hidebound sector begins to attract major foreign players.

US gasoline production is running near record levels

Gasoline production by US refiners and blenders has run near record levels over the first seven months of 2017, with four-week rolling average production well above its five-year average and close to the top of its five-year range. US gasoline inventories also remain relatively high despite growing domestic and foreign demand.

EIA: US crude stockpiles fall the most in nearly a year

NEW YORK (Reuters) — US crude oil inventories fell for the seventh consecutive week in their largest drawdown in nearly a year while exports and production continued to rise, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

PEMEX Fertilizantes selects Jacobs for ammonia rehabilitation project

DALLAS — Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been awarded a contract from PEMEX Fertilizantes to deliver project management contract (PMC) services for the Ammonia IV Rehabilitation Project in the Cosoleacaque Petrochemical Complex in Veracruz, Mexico.

First corn ethanol project in Brazil starts production

LUCAS DO RIO VERDE, Brazil — A grand opening was held this past week signaling the start of operations at FS Bioenergia, a world-class $115 MM corn-only ethanol production facility located in Lucas do Rio Verde, Mato Grosso.

US to sell 14 MMbbl of crude oil from emergency reserve

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The US Department of Energy said on Tuesday it will sell 14 MMbbl of crude oil from the nation's emergency reserve in late August.

Greenfield Global evaluating major expansion of biofuels production in Quebec

VARENNES, QC — Greenfield Global Inc., (formerly GreenField Specialty Alcohols Inc.) Canada's largest ethanol producer and a world leader in high-purity specialty alcohols, announced that it has commenced a feasibility study to significantly expand operations for sustainable biofuel production at its biorefinery in Varennes, Quebec.

Venezuela ships more oil to US in July vs June, but less than yr ago

(Reuters) — Venezuela's PDVSA and its joint ventures last month shipped 638,325 bpd of crude to the United States, a 30% increase over June due to larger sales of upgraded oil, according to Thomson Reuters trade flows data.

Oil falls on strong dollar, OPEC and China weigh

LONDON (Reuters) — Oil prices fell on Tuesday, extending a heavy sell-off after a surge in the dollar and weighed down by signs of weaker demand in China, the world's second-largest consumer.