Bloomberg China to Take Oil-Refining Crown Held by U.S. Since 19th Century (Bloomberg) — Earlier this month, Royal Dutch Shell Plc pulled the plug on its Convent refinery in Louisiana. Unlike many oil refineries shut in recent years, Convent was far from obsolete: it’s fairly big by U.S. standards and sophisticated enough to turn a wide range of crude oils into high-value fuels. Yet Shell, the world’s third-biggest oil major, wanted to radically reduce refining capacity and couldn’t… Source link

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The Michigan football program is the winningest in the history of the sport, with 938 victories since 1881. Over the 130 years that the school has played intercollegiate football, few of the victories would register as uniquely unsatisfying as the Wolverines’ triple-overtime win at Rutgers on Saturday. Michigan’s 48-42 slog offered perhaps the clearest indictment in the case against Jim Harbaugh returning as Michigan coach in 2021. One year after trouncing Rutgers 52-0, Michigan needed a… Source link

MMA Weekly UFC 255 results: Valentina Shevchenko continues to dominate flyweight division UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko passed a strong test from Jennifer Maia at UFC 255 on Saturday in Las Vegas. Though Maia was tough and pressed Shevchenko, the champion proved why she is considered one fo the top fighters on the planet. Shevchenko has been stellar during her UFC tenure. Though she lost one time – to Liz Carmouche – prior to stepping into the Octagon, the only fighter to… Source link

A woman doing a beach clean-up was horrified when she thought she had found a headless dead body. Kathleen, a volunteer for Ocean Hour, was lending a hand at Perdido Key, in the US state of Florida, earlier this month when she came across something washed up on the beach. “Volunteer Kathleen was walking the inter-coastal side in Perdido Key… when she came across what she thought was a dead, decapitated body,” Ocean Hour wrote on Facebook. “Another visitor had even called 911.” A woman… Source link

It’s time to start talking seriously about the College Football Playoff. The first set of playoff rankings will be revealed on Tuesday night as college football tries to progress through its pandemic-impacted 2020 season. What will they look like? We think they’ll resemble the AP Top 25. At least at the top. After the top five or six, things could get different. The committee typically hasn’t ranked undefeated teams outside of the Power Five conferences too highly to start. So Marshall… Source link

Report: C’s to sign Jeff Teague on one-year deal originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Now that Gordon Hayward is gone, Danny Ainge is getting down to business. The Boston Celtics are signing free-agent guard Jeff Teague to a one-year contract, The Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach reported Saturday. The Celtics reportedly also agreed to terms with Tristan Thompson on Saturday night and now have added two experienced veterans in the wake of Hayward’s departure to the Charlotte Hornets. Teague… Source link

Source: Wanamaker agrees to one-year contract with Warriors originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea The Warriors have added a backup point guard, agreeing to a one-year, $2.25 million contract with Brad Wanamaker, NBC Sports Bay Area’s Monte Poole confirmed. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported the agreement Saturday. Free agent G Brad Wanamaker has agreed to a one-year, $2.25M deal to join the Golden State Warriors, his agent Steve McCaskill tells ESPN. Wanamaker played a productive… Source link

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports FOX NFL Sunday cast knocked out of studio for Week 11 Sunday’s pregame shows on FOX will look a lot different than usual. FOX has announced that the regular FOX NFL Sunday cast will not appear in studio tomorrow, “[i]n accordance with CDC guidance, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health safety guidelines — and out of an abundance of caution for our team — Sunday’s [more] Source link