Americas
Phillips 66 shuts gasoline-producing unit at Westlake refinery
Phillips 66 shut a gasoline-making reformer unit at its Westlake, Louisiana refinery earlier this month, and advanced planned work on the unit.
Unit at Venezuela's Amuay refinery offline after leak
The catalytic cracker at Venezuela's largest refinery Amuay was offline on Tuesday after a problem with a valve.
California sale of carbon permits falls short
California sold just over one-third of the carbon permits it offered to cover emissions this year, receiving the minimum price at an auction.
Sasol boosts Lake Charles ethane cracker price estimate by $2.1 B
Petrochemicals company Sasol Ltd. raised the price tag of its US ethane cracker project to $11 B from $8.9 B.
Meridian Energy selects Axens for refinery tech
Meridian Energy selected Axens North America to license proprietary clean-tech refinery and hydrocarbon processing technology for the Davis refinery.
Valero Energy Partners LP acquires Meraux and Three Rivers Terminal Services for $325 M
Valero Energy Partners’ board of directors of its general partner has approved the acquisition of the Meraux and Three Rivers Terminal Services Business from a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corp. for total consideration of approximately $325 M.
BP Whiting refinery returns to normal operations
BP's Whiting, Indiana refinery returned to normal production by Monday morning for the first time since late July.
ExxonMobil defends handling of Torrance refinery outage
ExxonMobil is defending its handling of an outage at its Los Angeles refinery following a blast in February 2015 after a prominent trading company told a state commission that the process had lacked transparency.
Daily Thermetrics to use Orbital Gas Systems’ gas sampling technology
CUI Global Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiary, Orbital Gas Systems (Orbital) signed a technology and patent license agreement with Daily Thermetrics, a global design and manufacturing company providing the process industries with precise temperature measurement instrumentation.
Exxon's Baton Rouge refinery delays shutdown
ExxonMobil Corp. put off plans to shut its Baton Rouge, Louisiana refinery after it managed to start a LPG processing unit in the adjoining chemical plant.
- Fire at Russian petrochemicals plant kills at least three 4/2
- NH3 Clean Energy selects Linde to deliver FEED for the WAH2 project 4/2
- Phelan Green selects Honeywell process technology for flagship South African eSAF facility 4/2
- Metafuels secures Dutch government grant to advance Rotterdam eSAF project 4/2
- Topsoe partners with Hynfra P.S.A. to advance green ammonia in Jordan 4/2
- China calls for independent refiners to maintain fuel output amid war disruption 4/2

