No injuries in Marathon Texas City refinery leak

No injuries were reported due to a gas leak at a Texas City, Texas, refinery that forced the evacuation of nearby homes on Saturday, a city official said. Production at Marathon Petroleum Corp’s 76,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery, located about 50 miles south of Houston, was unaffected by the leak, said Marathon spokesman Robert Calmus. Residents... 

Gas leak at Texas oil refinery prompts evacuation

No injuries were reported due to a gas leak at a Texas City, Texas, refinery that forced the evacuation of nearby homes on Saturday, a city official said. Production at Marathon Petroleum Corp’s 76,000-barrel-per-day capacity Texas City oil refinery, located about 50 miles south of Houston, was unaffected by the leak, said Marathon spokesman Robert... 

BP and Russia’s Rosneft in share swap, Arctic pact

BP Plc and Russia’s state-controlled Rosneft (ROSN.MM) agreed to a share swap under which they plan to jointly explore for offshore oil and gas in a deal that gives the UK company access to areas of the Arctic previously reserved for Russian oil companies. BP (BP – News), recovering from its Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, will swap 5... 

Vattenfall Acquires Britain’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Vattenfall has acquired the Thanet Offshore Wind project off Margate, Kent, for the sum of GBP 35 million (SEK 435 million). On completion, the wind farm will have an installed capacity of some 300 MW. This will be almost three times the size of Lillgrund, Vattenfall’s largest wind farm in Sweden to date, and about the same size as Horns Rev in Denmark,... 

Vattenfall Acquires AMEC Wind Energy ltd

Vattenfall AB, the fifth largest electricity generator in Europe, today announced the acquisition of 100% of AMEC Wind Energy Limited (‘AMEC Wind’), a major UK developer of commercial wind farms for cash consideration of around 126.6 million GBP (equalling about 1.6 billion SEK or 160 million EUR). This move positions Vattenfall to further expand... 

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