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Canadian oil sands production in 2019 will be almost 230,000 b/d lower than last year, according to ESAI Energy’s recently published North America Watch.

Until recently, Venezuela’s oil production had stabilized at about 1.2 million b/d. However, the country’s recent electricity crisis has paralyzed it for substantial periods of time.

Ineos is planning to double the size of subsidiary Ineos Oxide’s proposed ethylene oxide and ethylene oxide derivatives plant to be built somewhere along the US Gulf Coast. Part of Ineos’ plan to address a fast-growing EO merchant market as well as the…

Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. subsidiary Port Harcourt Refining Co. has let a contract to Maire Tecnimont subsidiaries to provide services as part of the first leg of a long-planned rehabilitation project at the Port Harcourt refining complex—which…

Abu Dhabi Polymers Co. Ltd. (Borouge), a joint venture of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Borealis AG, has let a contract to WorleyParsons to provide project management consultancy for the proposed expansion of Borouge’s integrated polyolefins complex i…

Abu Dhabi Polymers Co. Ltd. (Borouge), a joint venture of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Borealis AG, has let a contract to WorleyParsons to provide project management consultancy for the proposed expansion of Borouge’s integrated polyolefins complex i…

The joint venture of Fluor and TechnipFMC has completed delivery of engineering, procurement, and construction management services on Sasol’s long-planned Lake Charles Chemicals Project, an integrated ethane cracker and downstream derivatives in Westla…

Irkutsk Polymer Plant, a subsidiary of Irkutsk Oil Co., has let a contract to McDermott International Inc. to provide basic engineering and technology licensing for a grassroots ethylene plant in Ust-Kut, in East Siberia’s Irkutsk region.

The US will soon export more oil and liquids than Saudi Arabia, driven by the continued rise in oil production from US shale plays and the increased oil export capacity from the Gulf Coast, according to Rystad Energy.

Global oil markets are going through a period of extraordinary change, according to the International Energy Agency’s annual oil market forecast, Oil 2019.