Refining - 05 January 2015

Catch up with some of the refining and petrochemicals news from Europe, the Middle East and Africa that you may have missed over the festive season.

Highlights from a speech given by the Chairman of Essar Oil Limited at the company’s Annual General Meeting.

Crude oil and petroleum product prices ended the year with the largest price drops of all major commodities in the S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index.

CORRE has announced that the company has secured commitments for a private placement financing of units.

Catch up with some of the refining industry news you may have missed from the Americas over the festive holidays.

AVEVA has acquired 8over8 with the aim of reducing project costs and schedule overruns.

According to IHS, despite crude oil price decline, global upstream M&A transaction value rose in 2014.

The existing Shaikan production facilities are now producing from seven wells with Shaikan-8 expected to come online in January 2015.

Petrobras has reached a new historical record of daily oil and NGL production with over two million bbls.

PIRA Energy Group looks at movements in the oil market for the week ending 28 December 2014.

According to EY, the appetite to execute deals is cautiously growing, and deal pipelines are set to expand further.