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Nigeria’s NNPC has awarded a $741m contract to South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering & Construction to rehabilitate the Kaduna Refinery.

Saudi Aramco has closed three transactions involving refining, wholesale, and plane fuel businesses with PKN Orlen in Poland.

Royal Dutch Shell’s downstream oil refining and marketing unit Pilipinas Shell Petroleum (PSPC) has announced that it will permanently shut down its Tabangao Refinery in Philippines, and convert it to a full import terminal.

Total has announced that it was investing more than €500m ($583m) to convert its Grandpuits refinery in France, into a zero-crude platform for biofuels and bioplastics.

Suncor Energy has partnered with utility firm ATCO to work on a project to produce more than 300,000 tonnes per year of clean hydrogen.

Royal Dutch Shell to exit upstream activities in Tunisia Share 8 hours ago Sign up here for GlobalDatas free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know. Royal Dutch Shell is set to exit upstream activities in Tunisia in a bid to shift its focus towards developing renewable energy. The firm has informed Tunisian authorities about its plan to exit the operations in the country next year, Reuters quoted Tunisia Energy Ministry’s senior official Rania Marzouki...

Engen to transform South African oil refinery into terminal Share 2 hours ago Sign up here for GlobalDatas free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know. Engen, a unit of Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional, is reportedly planning to convert the 120,000-barrel-a-day refinery in South Africa into a terminal in 2023. The refinery in Durban, which is one of the oldest in the country, has suffered annual losses for much of the past decade. It will be able to impor...