Industry News

    Oil producers in North America are hoping to ease the disconnect in the crude markets by addressing the reversal of the Seaway pipeline to run to refineries nest the Gulf of Mexico from the central United States.

Exelon Corporation and Constellation Energy have completed their merger, effective 12 March 2012. The merger creates one of the largest retail customer bases and the leading U.S. competitive energy provider with one of the cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets in the industry.

    A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded the basic design and front-end engineering design contract by Complejo GNL del Este.

    The province of Alberta and Canadian federal governments have unveiled the Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring, a plan to increase water, air, land and biodiversity monitoring of the country’s oil sands regions.

  Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP subsidiary, Boardwalk Field Services LLC will be constructing a cryogenic gas processing plant to serve producers in the Eagle Ford Shale and will be expanding its gathering system.

CRANE Energy Flow Solutions® has announced its recent hire of Javier Suarez, who will serve as Global Business Line Manager – Cast Steel Valves based in The Woodlands, Texas.

  NGL Energy Partners LP has acquired the assets comprising the propane and distillate operations of North America Propane (NAP) for about USD66.8 million.

Power and automation technology group, ABB has won a major order from Ontario,     Canada power transmission and distribution utility, Hydro One Networks Inc.

    Arctic Hunter Energy Inc.'s recently completed well on their core heavy oil operating Landrose property in west central Saskatchewan began production in late January.

Having substantial holdings in Monterey Shale in California, Independent energy company, Venoco Inc., has entered into a definitive merger agreement.