Western Energy Alliance Pres. Kathleen Sgamma called on the US Senate to repeal the US Bureau of Land Management’s methane emissions limits before time runs out under the Congressional Review Act. Source: News

The Republic of Uzbekistan has broken ground on a 5 million-tonne/year grassroots refinery to be built in the former Soviet state’s eastern Jizzakh region. Source: News

Facilitating exploration and development in the eastern Gulf of Mexico should be a top priority as the US Department of the Interior reviews its US Outer Continental Shelf decisions under President Donald J. Trump’s Apr. 28 offshore oil and gas executive order, an American Petroleum Institute official recommended on May 1. Source: News

Pembina Pipeline Corp. has agreed to acquire fellow Calgary infrastructure firm Veresen Inc. in a $7.1-billion stock-and-cash deal, forming a company with a pro-forma enterprise value of $24 billion. Source: News

Inpex Corp., Tokyo, said the central processing facility for the Ichthys LNG project has sailed from its construction site in Geoje, South Korea. Source: News