Oneok Inc. plans to double its Canadian Valley natural gas processing facility in the Sooner Trend Anadarko basin Canadian and Kingfisher counties (STACK) play of western Oklahoma to 400 MMcfd.

Mehdi Adib has joined SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. as vice-president, downstream.

TransCanada Corp. will apply to Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) to expand the capacity of its 14,114-km Canadian Mainline System through its Maple Compressor Station near Vaughan, Ont.

The ongoing political unrest in Venezuela is slowing down efforts to produce its giant Loran-Manatee cross-border natural gas field.

A three-judge federal appeals court panel struck down the US Environmental Protection Agency’s waiver authority for quotas under its program to increase renewable fuels used in domestic gasoline. The US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia’s July 28 opinion specifically addressed waivers EPA issued under the inadequate domestic supply provision within its 2014-16 renewable fuel obligations (RFOs).

The Quebec government has suspended oil and gas exploration on Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) posted a second-quarter profit of $1.8 billion, representing the third consecutive quarter in which the state-owned firm has recorded a profit.

Penn Virginia Corp., Houston, is to acquire Eagle Ford assets primarily in Lavaca County, Tex., for $205 million cash from Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC has shut down refining operations at subsidiary Shell Nederland Raffinaderij BV’s 404,000-b/d Pernis refinery and integrated petrochemical production site in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, following a weekend power outage that resulted in an explosion and subsequent fire at the plant.

New research is calling for immediate safeguards and the study of a widely used method for repairing sewer-, storm-water and drinking-water pipes to understand the potential health and environmental concerns for workers and the public.