-Calumet Specialty Products Partners and MDU Resources are set to finish construction on a joint venture diesel refinery in Dickinson, N.D. Calumet on Friday said the 20,000-barrel-per-day Dakota Prairie Refinery would start up in the second quarter of this year. The refinery will be completely supplied with locally sourced Bakken crude. Calumet is also working to expand its Great Falls, Mont., refinery and its Louisiana, Mo., esters plant.
-Plains All American Pipeline acquired a crude oil terminal that is under construction in North Dakota’s Williston Basin. The terminal, located in McKenzie County, includes 500,000 barrels of oil storage and is permitted for up to 2 million barrels. It is located within 50 miles of a crude oil gathering system and two crude-by-rail facilities owned by Plains. The terminal is expected to be in service in the third quarter of this year.
-PDVSA is performing planned and unplanned maintenance at its Amuay, Cardon and El Palito refineries in Venezuela, the Oil & Gas Journal reports. The company is undertaking a major overhaul of the Amuay refinery’s flexicoker and one of its flue stacks. PDVSA is in the process of restarting the FCCU at the El Palito refinery and conducting minor maintenance and partial repairs at the Cardon refinery’s naphtha reformer and distillation unit 4.
-Shell and the United Steelworkers union will reconvene for contract renewal talks on Wednesday, Shell said late last week.
-Axiall today said its Chief Strategy Officer George Blitz has resigned to become CEO of another company in the industry.
