Independent refiner HollyFrontier Corp., Dallas, has entered an agreement in principle to sell newly built crude, fluid catalytic cracking and polymerization units at its 45,000-b/sd Woods Cross refinery in West Bountiful, Utah, just north of Salt Lake City, to consolidated variable interest entity Holly Energy Partners LP (HEP), also of Dallas. Source: News

AWE Ltd., Sydney, operator of the Waitsia natural gas field project onshore Western Australia’s North Perth basin, has released an independent report that certifies the 2P reserves are sufficient to supply 100 terajoules/day of gas for 10 years. Source: News

Canada’s National Energy Board has launched a web page that enables viewers to track compliance with pipeline approval conditions. Source: News

Northern Gateway said it will not appeal a court decision against federal approval of its proposal to lay a 1,177-km crude oil pipeline between Bruderheim, Alta., near Edmonton, and a deepwater port at Kitimat, BC. Source: News

State-run Petronas has let contracts for industrial gas and power supplies and equipment for its long-planned Pengerang integrated complex (PIC) and refinery and petrochemical integrated development (RAPID) project at Pengerang in southeastern Johor, Malaysia. Source: News

A program that the US Environmental Protection Agency designed to help refiners and other obligated parties meet renewable fuel volume obligations under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard actually “provided the unintended framework for a new and persistent area of fraud,” a report released Sept. 20 by E&W Strategies charged. Source: News

The light, sweet crude oil contract for October delivery gained modestly on the New York market Sept. 19, settling above $43/bbl on mixed signals from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries regarding informal talks later this month. Source: News