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Petroecuador to expand, upgrade Esmeraldas refinery; AmSty to buy circular feedstock for recycled polysterene; Colombia´s Ecopetrol pays early $1.2-billion loan used to buy ISA; Wood Mackenzie sees plastics demand growth for 2022 slowing to 2.9%

Oct 11, 2022

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Argentina´s YPF to build pipeline, oil export terminal with $1.3 billion

Sep 6, 2022

The Argentine state hydrocarbons company YPF will invest $1.26 billion to start construction in March 2023 of a 435-mile pipeline from the Vaca Muerta unconventional deposit to a new crude oil export terminal to be built in the Rio Negro region, in southern...

Bolivians tap fertilizers revenue to build new plant while equally gas-rich Peruvians must pay up for urea imports, smuggled LPG: a case study of Peru´s Camisea business

Jul 20, 2022

While farmers in nearby, Camisea gas fields-rich Peru struggled in 2022 to find and buy gas-derived fertilizer and citizens paid dearly for goods obtained from gas and needed daily like LPG for cooking, Bolivians not only had access to affordable local urea...

Canada´s Inter Pipeline considers carbon capture and storage for new PDH, polypropylene plant

Mar 21, 2022

Canada´s Inter Pipeline, a midstream operator that will complete this year the construction of the country´s first PDH and polypropylene complex, is studying a project that could turn the facilities located near Edmonton, Alberta into net zero emissions...

U.S. 2021 average gasoline price topped $3/gal., highest since 2014; U.S. December auto sales at slowest pace since May 2020; U.S. construction spending sees 9% on-year expansion in November

Jan 11, 2022

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U.S. LNG exporters seeing strong demand recovery and record volume

Aug 24, 2021

U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) exporters, which started shipments five years ago and this year are set to for the first time export more natural gas than what is shipped abroad through pipelines, are seeing strong demand this year from Asia, Europe and...

Brookfield Infrastructure looks set to buy Inter Pipeline; Pembina to collect termination fee of C$350 million

Aug 10, 2021

Brookfield Infrastructure looked set to buy Inter Pipeline after it raised its offer and the revised bid satisfied Inter Pipeline’s board of directors which changed its recommendation to shareholders to this time encourage them to accept it.

Trump promises policies to support more mega US energy projects

Aug 20, 2019

President Donald Trump is committed to expanding U.S. energy production and increasing manufacturing, he said as he toured the multi-billion-dollar Shell cracker project in Pennsylvania.

US oil surplus could impact downstream

Jul 26, 2018

Land-locked oil producers are running out of options to get key feedstock to market as pipeline and rail capacity fills up and the truck driving shortage intensifies.

Sunoco restarts Mariner East 1 pipeline; Outlook strong for US chemicals industry; Global LNG trade continues to grow

Jun 13, 2018

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