Gasoline
Refining outlook: Capacity expansion and rationalization
Many factors are reshaping the global refined products industry, leading to inevitable change
Achieve success in gasoline hydrotreating
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HP Construction: Europe
Süd-Chemie, a member of the Clariant Group, has started construction of what will reportedly be the largest German plant for manufacturing climate-friendly biofuel cellulosic ethanol from agricul..
Plains expands capacity of Texas crude pipeline
Plains All American Pipeline said on Thursday that it recently increased the available throughput capacity of its 80-mile Mesa pipeline system in Texas by 100,000 bpd to approximately 420,000 bpd overall.
HP Construction: Middle East
A grassroots diesel hydrotreater unit (Prime-D), licensed by Axens, was successfully put into production at Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura refinery. The 105,000-bpsd unit—reportedly one of the wo..
US petroleum demand increased in June - API data
Total US petroleum deliveries in June were up on both a year-on-year and month-on-month basis, according to information released Friday from the American Petroleum Institute (API). Moreover, deliveries were up 1.9% for the first six months of 2011 over the same period in 2010.
NPRA asks US EPA to cut Renewable Fuel Standard
The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) is asking the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce mandated volumes of cellulosic and advanced biofuels in gasoline and the total Renewable Fuel Standard this year.
Natural gas company Chesapeake seeks to reduce US dependence on OPEC oil
In an effort to help break what it described as a 38-year stranglehold by OPEC on the US economy, Chesapeake Energy unveiled a plan that it says offers a scalable and affordable pathway toward a transportation future that runs on domestic supplies of natural gas and oil from deep shale and other unconventional formations.
HP Construction: North America
CB&I has been awarded an additional project, valued at approximately $50 million, for storage tanks at an oil-sands project near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. CB&I’s scope of work includes the ..
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