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1. Meridian Energy Group, Inc. Announces Agreement With Pinkerton As Security And Risk Management Provider For The Davis Refinery 3/31/2020

   Meridian Energy Group, Inc., the leading innovator in the petroleum refining industry, announced today that the company has entered into a long-term agreement with Pinkerton, leaders in comprehensive risk management, providing risk advisory, security management and protective services to global organizations

2. Shell Exits Proposed Lake Charles LNG Project 3/30/2020

   Shell will continue to support Energy Transfer with the ongoing bidding process for the engineering, procurement, and construction contract and then plan a phased handover of the project’s remaining activities

3. Air Products Signs Agreements To Acquire Five Operating Hydrogen Plants For $530M And Long-Term Hydrogen Supply To PBF Energy 3/30/2020

   Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced it has signed agreements with PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE: PBF) that include the $530 million purchase of five hydrogen steam methane reformer (SMR) hydrogen production plants and the long-term supply of hydrogen from those already operating plants to PBF refineries

4. Nacero Selects Topsoe’s TIGAS Technology For USD 3 Billion Natural Gas-To-Gasoline Plant 3/26/2020

   Nacero has signed agreements with Haldor Topsoe for basic engineering and license for a planned natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Casa Grande, Arizona, with a capacity of 35,000 barrels-per-day of finished gasoline

5. McDermott Announces Chevron Lummus Global Technology Award By Southeast Asian Refiner 3/25/2020

   McDermott International, Inc. today announced that Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), McDermott's joint venture with Chevron, has been awarded a sizeable^* contract by a Southeast Asian refiner for the license, engineering and supply of proprietary catalyst and equipment for its Lubricant Base Oil Group II Project to be built in Southeast Asia

6. Strategic Agreement To Build The First Commercial Bulk Liquid Storage Terminal In Abu Dhabi 3/24/2020

   Abu Dhabi Ports has signed a strategic agreement with Saudi Arabia based Arabian Chemical Terminals (ACT) that will see the development of the emirate’s first greenfield commercial bulk liquid storage terminal at its flagship, deep-water Khalifa Port

7. BASF Introduces Fourtune Fluidized Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Catalyst To Deliver More Butylene For Refiners 3/23/2020

   BASF announced today the commercial launch of Fourtune which is a new Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalyst product for gasoil feedstock. Fourtune is the latest product based on BASF’s Multiple Framework Topology (MFT) technology

8. ANDRITZ Successfully Starts Up The World’s First Fossil-Free Biomethanol Plant At Södra, Sweden 3/23/2020

   International technology group ANDRITZ has recently started up the world’s first biomethanol plant using ANDRITZ’s self-developed A-Recovery+ concept at the Södra Cell Mönsterås pulp mill in southeastern Sweden

9. The Gazprom Neft Omsk Refinery Is Improving Efficiency In Its Production Of Diesel Fuels 3/19/2020

   Work is now complete on the modernisation of a three-million-tonne diesel hydrotreatment facility at the Gazprom Neft Omsk Refinery. Works undertaken have facilitated a 10-percent increase in the production of diesel fuels at that facility which accounts for more than one third of all diesel fuel produced at the Omsk Refinery

10. Pembina Pipeline Corporation's Jordan Cove LNG Project Receives Federal Approval 3/19/2020

    Pembina Pipeline Corporation ("Pembina" or the "Company") is pleased to announce receipt of a certificate of approval from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") for Pembina's proposed Jordan Cove liquified natural gas ("LNG") terminal and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline (together known as "Jordan Cove" or "the Project")