http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing Vietnam's Nghi Son refinery processes first batch of non-Kuwaiti crude oil http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/01/vietnams-nghi-son-refinery-processes-first-batch-of-non-kuwaiti-crude-oil/ Technical considerations for solvent selection in extractive distillation of acetonitrile/toluene azeotrope http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/december-2025/process-optimization/technical-considerations-for-solvent-selection-in-extractive-distillation-of-acetonitriletoluene-azeotrope/ EIA: U.S. crude stocks fall, fuel inventories rise on robust refining http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/12/eia-us-crude-stocks-fall-fuel-inventories-rise-on-robust-refining/ U.S. crude inventories fell, while gasoline and distillates stockpiles rose last week amid strong refining activity, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. Valero plans CDU upgrades at Port Arthur, Texas (U.S.) refinery in February http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/12/valero-plans-cdu-upgrades-at-port-arthur-texas-us-refinery-in-february/ Among the improvements will be upgrades to processing of bottoms - heavy, gunky residual crude oil that is usually sent to the coker or used in asphalt. Tales of innovative approaches for skin metal temperatures http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/november-2025/special-focus-process-controls-instrumentation-and-automation/tales-of-innovative-approaches-for-skin-metal-temperatures/ Update: Fire extinguished at Venezuelan oil upgrader, operations halted http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/11/update-fire-extinguished-at-venezuelan-oil-upgrader-operations-halted/ Incidents and outages are frequent within PDVSA's aging infrastructure, including oilfields, refineries and upgraders that are key to turning the country's extra heavy oil output into exportable crude grades. Vacuum distillation unit ejector-condenser interplay http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/september-2025/special-focus-refining-technologies/vacuum-distillation-unit-ejector-condenser-interplay/ Retrofit hydrocarbon distillation systems using exergy analysis and product optimization: A systematic framework and application to NGL fractionation—Part 1 http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/september-2025/process-optimization/retrofit-hydrocarbon-distillation-systems-using-exergy-analysis-and-product-optimization-a-systematic-framework-and-application-to-ngl-fractionation-part-1/ Temperature control strategies for distillation columns in the CPI http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/september-2025/process-optimization/temperature-control-strategies-for-distillation-columns-in-the-cpi/ Idemitsu shuts 165,000-bpd Aichi CDU for scheduled maintenance http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/10/idemitsu-shuts-165-000-bpd-aichi-cdu-for-scheduled-maintenance/ Its smaller rival Cosmo Oil, a unit of Cosmo Energy Holdings, also shut the 100,000-bpd CDU at its Sakai refinery in western Japan on August 27 for scheduled maintenance, with operations expected to resume in October.