-Kinder Morgan announced an open season for its proposed Palmetto pipeline project, which would allow Gulf Coast shippers to move refined products to South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The $1 billion project has a design capacity of 167,000 barrels per day and could be in service by July 2017, Kinder Morgan said. The open season ends Sept. 30.
-Enbridge on Friday said its new 450,000-barrel-per-day Seaway Twin pipeline would begin carrying Canadian crude to the Gulf Coast in October. Via Reuters, the pipeline was mechanically completed in July, but it will not begin operating until after Enbridge’s Illinois-to-Oklahoma Flanagan South pipeline is finished in early October.
-A Sunday night explosion triggered a fire at the Diamond Green Diesel plant in Norco, La. Via the Associated Press, emergency officials in St. Charles Parish said today the fire had been extinguished and no injuries were reported. Diamond Green Diesel is a joint venture of Valero and Darling International.
-BP named Spencer Dale as its new chief economist, effective at the end of October. Dale currently serves as an executive director at the Bank of England, where he has worked since 1989. He replaces Christof Ruehl, who left BP in July to join the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
-GEO Heat Exchangers and Field Service promoted Director of Purchasing August Ohmstede to vice president of plant operations. GEO also promoted Director of Business Operations Gene E. Ohmstede III to vice president of business operations.
