Air Liquide signs its renewal contracts with Shell

Air Liquide and Shell Chemicals, one of the chemicals suppliers, signed renewal contracts for the supply of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Steam, and Electricity to Shell’s Scotford facility near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada.

ATI completes the sale of oil and gas rights in Eddy

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated recently announced that it has completed the sale of a portion of its oil and gas rights in Eddy County, New Mexico and has reached an agreement to sell the remaining portion of these rights, both to the same undisclosed buyer.

ABB’s ArcSave stirrer to be delivered in March 2020

ABB’s ArcSave electromagnetic stirrer will be delivered in March 2020 and installed on an energy-efficient, 55-ton electric arc furnace (EAF) at the new voestalpine BÖHLER Edelstahl steel plant in Kapfenberg, Austria, helping optimize annual output of 205,000 tons of high-performance steels from mid-2021.

JOG secures significant acreage including Buchan

Jersey Oil and Gas PLC has been awarded acreage containing more than 100 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe), including Buchan, and will have a 100% working interest and operate all three blocks.

SIJ Group appoints Lombardi as MD

Management Board of the SIJ Group has appointed Giuseppe Lombardi the Managing Director of SIJ Elektrode Jesenice. Mr. Lombardi has over 15 years of experience in production management, operations, and process optimisation in various companies in the chemical and mechanical industries.

Sandvik acquires 30% stake in Beam IT

Sandvik has acquired a 30% stake in privately owned Italian company Beam IT, a service provider of metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) services and advanced end-use components.

Colombia led globally 7 O&G discoveries in Q2 2019

GlobalData’s report: ‘Q2 2019 Global Oil and Gas Discoveries Review – Colombia Leads with Highest Number of Discoveries in Quarter’ reveals that Colombia had a total of seven onshore discoveries: five were conventional oil and two were conventional gas.

INEOS Phenol to build a Cumene unit at Marl, Germany

INEOS Phenol has recently announced that it is to build a world scale, state of the art cumene unit in Marl Germany, to be completed in 2021.

KMG signs an MOU with Tatneft

On 10 July, 2019 as part of the intergovernmental agreement on principles of trade, economical, scientific and cultural collaboration a meeting between Chairman of the Management Board, Samruk-Kazyna JSC, Akhmetzhan Yessimov and Alik Aidarbayev and President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov was held where the parties expressed their desire to initiate a new phase of cooperation in the oil and gas industry.

voestalpine AG appoints Management Board Chairman

Herbert Eibensteiner takes over as the Chairman of the Management Board of voestalpine AG from Wolfgang Eder, who served in this position for more than 15 years.