Refining

Moscow oil refinery hit by drone attacks is unlikely to resume production this year

The refinery, located on the southern outskirts of the Russian capital, is the largest fuel supplier to the Moscow region.

ExxonMobil's Antwerp refinery to stop output from June 29–July 3 due to strike

Workers at the refinery oppose a plan to cut 35 jobs out of a total of 735.

Singapore's Aster plans August maintenance for crude, petchem units

Aster, a joint venture between Indonesia's Chandra Asri and trading major Glencore, operates a 237,000-bpd refinery in Singapore's Bukom Island.

Sky Quarry announces Foreland refinery's entrance into the production phase

S&B receives AFPM Contractor Safety Achievement Award

This year, AFPM recognized 231 contractors for advancing industry safety performance.

Asian refiners see little room for Iranian oil, leaving China as key buyer after U.S. waiver

Hit by supply disruptions due to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz since March, Asian refiners have been aggressively buying oil from the U.S., Russia, Africa and Latin America.

Viva Energy to restart Geelong refinery this week, alkylation unit offline

Viva said work at a key processing unit of the refinery, the Residue Catalytic Cracking Unit (RCCU), was completed and that operations will resume this week at over 90% of normal capacity, more than two months after the unit was shut down due to a fire.

Brazil's Petrobras approves $1.2 billion investment for renewable fuels plant

Asia has plenty of crude oil, but refined fuels remain tight

The world's top energy-consuming region is expected to import about 22.18 MMbpd of crude in June, up from 20.35 MMbpd in May.

Fire extinguished at Marathon's Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas (U.S.)

The fire broke out in a furnace of the Green Power 2 generating station.