West Coast refiners are replacing their heavy Iraqi oil imports with cheaper crude from Canada as the newly expanded Trans Mountain pipeline reshuffles trade flows.
Two of the licenses were offered to Equinor ASA. One license is for a group composed of Var Energi ASA, OMV (Norge) AS and Lime Petroleum AS, and the other is for the group of Aker BP ASA and PGNiG Upstream Norway AS.
Air Liquide agreed to potentially invest $850 million to provide feedstock and transport support for ExxonMobil's planned hydrogen production project in Texas.
The pan-European exercise brought together national cyber security, EU agencies and experts covering a range of areas from incident response to decision-making.