The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has consented to the September production start of the Equinor-operated Oseberg H facility on the Norwegian Shelf. The development increases the recoverable reserves in Oseberg by 17.6 million standard cu m of oil equivalent—9.9 standard cu m of oil and 7.8 billion standard cu m of gas. Source: News

Brazil’s Petrobras is investigating the cause of a fire that broke out at its 415,000-b/d Replan refinery in Paulínia, Sao Paulo. The fire, which occurred on Aug. 20, reached part of two units at the refinery, including the U-200 atmospheric distillation unit and U-220A catalytic cracking unit, Petrobras said. Source: News

A unit of state-owned Pertamina (Persero) of Indonesia is assessing development of an oil and gas discovery named Akasia Maju in the Jatibarang basin of West Java. Source: News

Siccar Point Energy, Aberdeen, has suspended for use in future development the 204/10a-5 appraisal well in Cambo oil field, 125 km northwest of the Shetland Islands, saying logs and cores confirmed a high-quality reservoir with 23° gravity oil and “petrophysical properties better than anticipated.” Source: News

Cogent Midstream LLC, Dallas, is expanding its natural gas processing capacity in the lower Midland basin of West Texas with construction of a refrigerated cryogenic processing plant at the same location as its existing Big Lake gas plant in Reagan County, Tex. Source: News

FAR Ltd., Perth, has selected its final well location for the forthcoming Samo-1 wildcat on the A2 block offshore Gambia. The prospect lies immediately south and along trend from the large SNE oil field in Senegal waters in which Far also has an interest. Source: News

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate granted DEA Norge AS a drilling permit in the North Sea for well 7321/4-1, which will be drilled from the Island Innovator drilling facility. Well 7321/4-1 is to be drilled after Sprit Energy completes drilling wildcat well 7322/7-1 in production license 852. Source: News

LyondellBasell Industries NV officially has broken ground on what it is calling the world’s largest propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) plant at the company’s Houston-area complex in Channelview, Tex. Source: News

Enterprise Products Partners LP and American Midstream Partners LP have entered an agreement under which American Midstream may purchase a 25% interest in EPP’s 1-bcfd natural gas processing plant in Pascagoula, Miss. Source: News

Crude oil prices moved sharply higher on Aug. 22 on New York and London markets, jumping by more than $2/bbl after a weekly government reported showed a drop in US crude oil supplies. US crude oil inventories, excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, decreased by 5.8 million bbl to 408.4 million bbl for the week ended […]