Petronas has signed a share purchase agreement to sell Saudi Aramco a 50% ownership interest in its long-planned refinery and petrochemical integrated development (RAPID) project now under construction at the $27-28-billion Pengerang integrated complex (PIC) in southeastern Johor, Malaysia. Source: News

Injection into the Arbuckle group, the stratigraphic unit lying directly on Oklahoma’s crystalline basement, is the likely cause of the state’s earthquakes. The largest volume of injection has been into this horizon and increases of pore pressure in the Arbuckle are interpreted as transmitting to blind faults in the crystalline basement. Source: News

US President Donald Trump has taken new actions intended to expedite approval of energy and infrastructure projects. Source: News

Following an unprecedented 2 years of double-digit percentage declines, upstream capital expenditures in North America will rebound strongly this year, according to Oil & Gas Journal’s annual spending outlook. Source: News

India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. plans five development projects with a total estimated cost of $1.1 billion. Four are off the west coast and one is in the western state of Gujarat. Source: News

Air emissions data from actual monitoring and testing contradict articles based on different methods claiming to have found health hazards related to oil and gas work. Source: News

Canadian oil and gas companies find themselves caught between push-and-pull policies from north and south of their country’s southern border. With every gain comes a setback. Source: News

War in Yemen menaces the oil market far out of proportion to the country’s oil production of only 20,000 b/d. Source: News

Tom Wheeler has been named director of regulation at the UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), effective Mar. 1, following the retirement of Simon Toole. Source: News