Projects

Due to inadequate margins resulting in financial losses, Valero Energy Corp. is suspending operations at its Aruba refinery. Valero, a Texas-based independent oil refiner, acquired the 235,000bpd refinery in 2004 and is considering operating a terminal and storage facility at the site.

PowerSecure International, Inc. was awarded a contract to build electrical transmission infrastructure to support a series of new oil and gas production sites by a major energy company in partnership with a prominent electric utility.

  DC Water has contracted Pepco Holdings, Inc.

Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract for the Petrocarabobo upgrader, that will include the basic, front-end engineering design and the first phase of project management consultancy services.

    John A. Catsimatidis, chief executive and chairman of United Refining Energy Corp.

    Nevada-based Ormat Technologies Inc. is planning to develop a geothermal energy project on the southwest side of Haleakala in Maui, Hawaii.

    BP has signed an agreement with the Associated Landowners of the Ohio Valley (ALOV) to lease approximately 84,000acres in Trumbull County, Ohio in the Utica/Point Pleasant shale basin.

    President Barack Obama has expressed plans to fast-track an oil pipeline, directing federal agencies to expedite the construction of a 780km pipeline to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast from Oklahoma.

    Through Nebraska Public Power District received pardon from one federal environment regulation after a U.

      In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their oil sand bitumen upgrader, the Scotford Upgrader in Edmonton, Alberta, Shell Canada Limited is proposing the Shell Quest CCS Project, a fully integrated project involving the capture, transport, injection and storage of carbon dioxide.