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Natural Gas

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Andrew, Bob

Appleton, an Emerson brand and a global supplier in hazardous-location electrical products, announced an expansion to the Areamaster LED series.

Industry Metrics

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

The impact of Canadian and French refinery outages caused margins to fall slightly in the Atlantic Basin and Europe, despite stronger gasoline demand and higher inventories.

Business Trends: Asia’s smaller downstream players have big plans

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Most of the focus on Asian downstream capacity construction revolves around large consuming nations, such as China and India.

Industry Metrics

US refinery utilization rates have increased in some areas following the peak of maintenance season.

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Andrew, Bob

Unintended fugitive emissions from pressurized plant components have long been a key concern for operators as well as regulators.

Global Project Data

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

According to <i>Hydrocarbon Processing’s </i> Construction Boxscore Database, there were nearly 90 new project announcements from January 2015 to June 2015.

Gazprom sees record 2016 gas exports to Europe

Russia's Gazprom plans to export a record 165 Bcm of gas to Europe this year, as falling gas prices have made its gas more attractive to European consumers.

Qatar's Texas LNG venture eyes exports by 2021

Top LNG exporter Qatar anticipates exports from its Golden Pass JV in Texas to begin in 2021. State-run Qatar Petroleum owns a 70% stake in an LNG receiving terminal in Texas that is backed by Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips.

US, Vietnam firms sign MOU for oil and gas cooperation

The MOU formalizes the deepening relationship between Honeywell and PetroVietnam and further confirms a common vision of developing a cooperative partnership in oil and gas.

Oil Search boosts LNG push in PNG

Australia's Oil Search Ltd. agreed to a $2.2-B deal to acquire InterOil Corp., aiming to pave the way for two rival LNG projects led by global majors to work together in PNG.