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UOP Oleflex(TM) process technology will be used to produce more than 1 million metric tons of propylene per year; 14th new project for the technology since 2011 DES PLAINES, Ill., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced today that it has been selected to provide technology for the world's largest on-purpose propylene production facility, located on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC will use Honeywell's UOP C(3...
BOGOTA, Colombia, June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC; TSX: ECP) placed the most competitive bids in 6 blocks in the "Central Planning Area Lease Sale 216/222" round through its U.S. affiliate (Ecopetrol America Inc.) held in New Orleans as was disclosed by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the governmental authority in charge of the process in the United States. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090209/ARM001LOGO ) Murphy...
By Associated Press GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- Gustav swelled to a fearsome Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 mph (195 kph) as it shrieked toward the heartland of Cuba's cigar industry Saturday on a track to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, three years after Hurricane Katrina. The storm already has killed 78 people in the Caribbean and the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said it had become the second major hurricane of the Atlantic season, following Bertha in July. Cuban state...
Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) today affirmed that it has agreed to participate as a prospective shipper, subject to regulatory approvals, on the 500,000 barrel per day expansion of the Keystone crude oil pipeline system from Western Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast at Port Arthur, Texas. Earlier today, TransCanada and its partner, ConocoPhillips, announced plans to increase the commercial design of the Keystone pipeline to 1.1 million barrels per day by 2012. In addition to its...
By Amanda Cooper NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit swelled to a record $66.1 billion in September after Hurricane Katrina pushed oil prices to record highs and exports fell, causing the largest monthly increase in the deficit in over a year. But in early November, lower gasoline prices and an improving jobs market helped U.S. consumers overcome some of their gloom after the hurricanes that hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in late August and September. The Treasury Department also...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The results of relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina are "not acceptable," President George W. Bush said on Friday before heading out on a tour of storm-ravaged New Orleans and other areas of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The results of relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina are "not acceptable," President George W. Bush said on Friday before heading out on a tour of storm-ravaged New Orleans and other areas of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
By Mark Babineck NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Rotting bodies littered New Orleans' streets on Thursday and troops headed in to control looting and violence, as thousands of desperate survivors of Hurricane Katrina pleaded to be evacuated from the flooded city, or even just fed. The historic jazz city became a playground for armed looters, and sporadic gunfire hampered chaotic and widely criticized rescue efforts. The mayhem in New Orleans, after Katrina's attack on the U.S. Gulf Coast on...
By Jason Reed NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Chaos and lawlessness hampered the evacuation of New Orleans on Thursday and a U.S. senator said thousands may have died in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast. In New Orleans, shell-shocked officials tried to regain control of the historic jazz city reduced to a swampy ruin by Monday's storm. Bodies floated in the flooded city and authorities still could only guess how many people had died. "We don't have numbers. It...
