Shell Oil Company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, agreed to sale its interest in Deer Park refinery to partner Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) for about $596 million, according to Shell's press release.

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, along with the Minister of Oil, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar, have put the cornerstone of South Refineries company’ FFC project in Al Basra at a capacity of 55,000 barrels per day (b/d) of oil.

Roseneft company announced that its Komsomolsk refinery invested more than RUB 750 million in environment- oriented assets during the period between 2018 to 2020.

The state owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has completed negotiations to take a lone from the Afreximbank of $1 billion for repairing its Port Harcourt refinery during the Q1 2021.

The Indian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has inaugurated the recent Propylene Derivatives Petrochemicals (PDPP) Complex at Kochi refinery in kerala governorate, built at a cost of ₹6,000 crore.

The Iraqi oil Ministry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for establishing a refinery in Dhi Qar governorate in order to raise the production capacity rates of petroleum products and fuels as well as improve the output.

The Fujairah Port will get a fourth refinery in 2021 as Brooge Energy expects its 25,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) refinery producing low sulfur fuel oil to be launched in H2 2021.

Louisiana Governor, John Bel Edwards, stated that ExxonMobil Company is studying to invest more than $240 million from Baton Rouge refinery, from which it is producing 517,700 barrels per day (b/d).

The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek El Molla, shared the petroleum sector’s achievements  and challenges in the past period stating that “the oil and gas sector has been moving forward with all its activities and plans steadily despite the volatile circumstances which have proven the efficiency and sustainability of the sector’s strategic plans and bold reforms.” This came during a British Egyptian Business Association’s (BEBA) Egypt’s Green Economy webinar under the title “Future of Oil and Gas: Challenges and Opportunities,” which was held on November 9.

The $450 million project is part of several projects aimed to achieve gasoline self-sufficiency in the next few years. Currently, the project’s expansion is valued at EGP 1.6 billion and is expected to operate with a production capacity of 660,000 tons per year of naphtha in addition to producing butane.