The Mississippi River has a sheen of oil floating on the river which has been traced to the Chalmette Refinery in Louisiana, according to a January 23 Reuters report.

Under a United Nation’s greenhouse gas (GHG) limitation program, Spain’s oil company, Repsol YPF SA, plans to construct a refinery-based GHG control project – the first of its kind in the world, according to a January 24 report by Bloomberg.

CB&I announced January 21 that Imperial Oil has released an additional US$90 million to CB&I for work on the Kearl oil sands project in Alberta, Canada. CB&I's scope of work includes the engineering, procurement and construction of a bitumen extraction unit and multiple storage tanks.

Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) officials on January 20 commissioned three units at the 88,000 barrels/day Kuwait Petroleum Europoort (KPE) refinery at Rotterdam, Netherlands, according to a January 21 report by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).

Sinopec is one of several investors helping to fund the initial stages of Enbridge Corp.’s proposed pipeline from the Canadian oil sands producing region to Canada’s west coast, according to a January 21 Bloomberg report.

Texas-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced January 20 that it signed a three-year “strategic alliance agreement” with India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to cooperate on “novel technologies in fuels research and engine development projects.”