http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/september-2025/special-focus-refining-technologies/vacuum-distillation-unit-ejector-condenser-interplay/ 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/ http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/september-2025/process-optimization/temperature-control-strategies-for-distillation-columns-in-the-cpi/ 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. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/10/taiyo-oil-and-mitsui-chemicals-consider-collaboration-to-expand-supply-of-chemically-recycled-products/ The study aims to have Taiyo Oil's Shikoku Operations handle the heavy fraction of pyrolysis oil from plastic waste, which is difficult for Mitsui Chemicals to process with its crackers. Chemically recycled naphtha, propylene and other products based on the mass balance approach will then be supplied to Mitsui Chemicals. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/09/exxonmobil-starts-up-new-singapore-refining-unit-boosts-sour-crude-imports/ The technology combines processes to convert fuel oil and other bottom-of-the-barrel crude products into higher-value lube base stocks and distillates. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/09/summer-diesel-margins-tighten-with-european-supply-shift/ This summer, Europe’s increased reliance on imports from the Middle East, coupled with conflict-related disruptions to refineries and escalating geopolitical tensions, contributed to a tightened global diesel market. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/09/mol-petrochemicals-conducts-first-circular-feedstock-test-at-its-tiszaujvaros-site-in-hungary/ MOL Group has achieved a significant milestone in its SHAPE TOMORROW Strategy by successfully completing its first ISCC PLUS-certified production run using circular feedstock at its MOL Petrochemicals site in Tiszaújváros, Hungary. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/09/solvay-doubles-zhenjiang-production-capacity-of-high-purity-electronic-grade-hydrogen-peroxide/ Solvay officially opened a significant expansion at its Zhenjiang, China, facility, doubling its production capacity for electronic grade hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) annually. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/09/chevron-seeks-diversified-approach-to-refinery-investments/ "There'll be places like Korea where we go investment heavy in petrochemicals and in heavy oil upgrading."