Americas
Icahn refinery cuts biofuels short amid reform standstill
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Carl Icahn’s oil refining company CVR Energy has significantly unwound a large short position in the US biofuel credit market, more than halving its outstanding blending obligation, the company said on Wednesday.
Shell cancels plan to close Convent refinery gasoline unit
HOUSTON (Reuters) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc has shelved a plan to permanently close the gasoline-producing unit at its 227,586-bpd Convent, Louisiana, oil refinery in early 2018, the company said on Thursday.
WGLC '17: Refining women's careers in the downstream: Listening and looking beyond
HOUSTON—On the afternoon of Day 1 of the 2017 Women's Global Leadership Conference in Energy (WGLC), a panel of experts discussed working in the downstream industry as a woman in a senior position.
WGLC ’17: Gender diversity, technological advances and the ‘disruption’ of the energy industry
HOUSTON — Where the state of the energy industry is and how gender and diversity affects it was the focus of Hind Farag’s presentation during the opening session of the Women’s Global Leadership Conference Wednesday, Nov. 1 in Houston.
ExxonMobil, Renewable Energy Group progress in biodiesel research
CLINTON, N.J. — ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group (REG) announced that by utilizing REG’s patented fermentation technology, the companies’ joint research program has demonstrated the ability to convert sugars from a variety of non-edible biomass sources into biodiesel.
EIA: US gasoline demand hits record high in August
NEW YORK (Reuters) — US gasoline demand hit a record in August, delivering a strong end to the summer driving season, according to data released on Tuesday by the US Energy Information Administration.
Oil flat, erases gains as US crude draw shy of API report
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Oil prices were steady in see-saw trade on Wednesday, hitting their highest since mid-2015 and then retreating after US government data showed that the latest weekly draw in domestic crude stocks was not as big as an industry trade group had reported.
HollyFrontier beats profit estimate as refining margins surge
(Reuters) — US oil refiner HollyFrontier Corp reported a better-than-expected third-quarter profit, helped by higher refining margins in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey that swept through Texas.
Venezuela Amuay refinery slop tank overflows into bay
MARACAY, Venezuela (Reuters) — A slop tank at Venezuela’s massive Amuay refinery overflowed this week and products have spilled, polluting the nearby bay and staining tankers, according to a union leader and two refinery workers.
Sustainability and innovation at AIChE annual conference
The 2017 annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers features dozens of parallel tracks for eight days.
- Perpetual Next appoints Bilfinger as lead consultant for its Methanol Moerdijk project 4/1
- ASRock Industrial and CSI Validate O-PAS™ Systems Management Architecture with the iEP-7020E and AiSMA 4/1
- Heavy equipment for KazMunayGas' Atyrau PE plant ships from Shanghai to Kazakhstan 4/1
- KT Tech awarded early engineering works contract for 60,000-tpy SAF plant in Indonesia 4/1
- OCI Global completes sale of OCI Ammonia Holding to AGROFERT 4/1
- Union workers ratify contract at ExxonMobil's Louisiana (U.S.) refining and chemical complex 4/1
