Marathon preparing to restart Garyville, Louisiana, units

Marathon preparing to restart Garyville, Louisiana, units

HOUSTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) – Marathon Petroleum (MPC.N) is preparing a plan to begin restarting units at its 596,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Garyville, Louisiana, refinery, the company said on Monday. The units were shut because they were closest to two giant storage tanks filled with volatile naphtha that caught fire after a chemical leak on Friday at … Read more

Suez Canal ship traffic unaffected after tanker collision

Suez Canal ship traffic unaffected after tanker collision

CAIRO, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Shipping traffic was flowing normally on Egypt’s Suez Canal on Wednesday, two shipping sources based in the country said, after two tankers that collided earlier were separated. The two tankers, the Singapore-flagged liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier BW Lesmes and the Cayman Islands-flagged oil products tanker Burri, briefly collided in … Read more

EEX bourse must seek EU antitrust okay for Nasdaq deal, EU says

EEX bourse must seek EU antitrust okay for Nasdaq deal, EU says

The headquarters of the European Energy Exchange (EEX), world’s biggest online power trading platform is seen in a centre-of-town high-rise office building in Leipzig, Germany April 25, 2021. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights BRUSSELS, Aug 21 (Reuters) – The European Energy Exchange (EEX), part of Deutsche Boerse (DB1Gn.DE), has to seek EU antitrust approval … Read more

TotalEnergies and INPEX to buy 100% of Timor Sea gas field interest from PTTEP

TotalEnergies and INPEX to buy 100% of Timor Sea gas field interest from PTTEP

The logo of French oil and gas company TotalEnergies is seen on an oil tank at TotalEnergies fuel depot in Mardyck near Dunkirk, France, January 16, 2023. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights PARIS, Aug 21 (Reuters) – France’s TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA) on Monday said it had teamed up with Japanese peer INPEX (1605.T) to acquire … Read more

Canada fires: B.C. under state of emergency, wildfires close main highway

Canada fires: B.C. under state of emergency, wildfires close main highway

[1/4]The McDougall Creek wildfire burns next to houses in the Okanagan community of West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, August 19, 2023. REUTERS/Chris Helgren Acquire Licensing Rights KELOWNA, British Columbia, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Thousands of British Columbia (B.C.) residents were on high evacuation alert on Saturday after rapidly intensifying wildfires forced the Canadian province to … Read more

Ukraine attacks Russian navy base near Novorossiysk

Ukraine attacks Russian navy base near Novorossiysk

Aug 4 (Reuters) – Ukrainian sea drones attacked a Russian navy base near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a major hub for Russian exports, early on Friday and were destroyed by Russian warships, Russia’s defence ministry said. The attack prompted the Novorossiysk port to temporarily halt all ship movement, according to the Caspian Pipeline … Read more

L’Irak condamne l’incinération du Coran à Copenhague, affirme que le personnel de la mission danoise a quitté Bagdad

L’Irak condamne l’incinération du Coran à Copenhague, affirme que le personnel de la mission danoise a quitté Bagdad

[1/2]Des manifestants des « patriotes danois » manifestent devant l’ambassade d’Irak à Copenhague, Danemark, le 24 juillet 2023 Ritzau Scanpix/Thomas Sjoerup/via REUTERS DUBAÏ/COPENHAGUE, 24 juillet (Reuters) – L’Irak a condamné lundi l’incendie d’un exemplaire du Coran devant son ambassade au Danemark et a déclaré que le personnel de l’ambassade danoise à Bagdad avait quitté le … Read more

Washington state wildfire threatens homes, farms and gas pipeline

Washington state wildfire threatens homes, farms and gas pipeline

SATUS, Washington, July 22 (Reuters) – A fast-growing wildfire forced residents to evacuate a rural part of Klickitat County in southern Washington state on Saturday after burning more than 30,000 acres in less than 24 hours. The Newell Road wildfire has already destroyed several structures in the area and threatens homes, farms, crops and livestock, … Read more