-Marathon Petroleum appointed Donald Templin executive vice president, Supply, Transportation and Marketing, and Timothy Griffith senior vice president and CFO. Templin has served as CFO since 2011. Griffith joined Marathon in 2011 as vice president of finance and treasurer and assumed responsibility for investor relations last year.
Marathon also named George Shaffner senior vice president, Health, Environment, Safety and Security, and John Swearingen senior vice president, Transportation and Logistics. James Heintschel has been appointed to the newly created role of vice president, Business Development.
-Shell has begun planned maintenance at its 400,000-barrel-per-day Pernis refinery in the Netherlands, Reuters reports. Large sections of the refinery will be closed until early May, Shell said.
-The oil transported by a train that derailed in West Virginia last month exceeded the volatile gas limit under safety rules set to go into effect in North Dakota in April. Via the Wall Street Journal, the oil’s vapor pressure was 13.9 psi — the new rules will impose a limit of 13.7 psi on oil moving from the Bakken Shale. The train traveled from North Dakota through Minnesota, Illinois and Ohio before derailing in Mount Carbon, W.Va. Nearly two dozen tank cars burst into flames and one nearby house burned to the ground.
-Dakota Plains Holdings said construction of a third 90,000-barrel crude oil storage tank at its Pioneer Terminal in Mountrail County, N.D., is ahead of schedule. The tank, which will increase storage capacity at the terminal from 180,000 barrels to 270,000 barrels, is expected to be in service this summer.
-EnLink Midstream extended the open season for its proposed ORV Condensate Pipeline to April 15. The pipeline would transport condensate from Harrison, Belmont, Guernsey, Noble, Monroe and Washington counties in Ohio to the Bells Run Station in Washington County and the Black Run Station in Muskingum County, Ohio. The pipeline could also connect to other facilities pending a connection with the Ohio River Valley Pipeline.
