Refining
Taiwan suspends oil exports to North Korea, imports of clothing
TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan has suspended refined oil and LNG exports to North Korea, as well as clothing and textile imports, to comply with United Nations resolutions, a largely symbolic move by the island to show it is a responsible member of the international community.
CB&I to supply storage tanks for Greenfield refinery project in Oman
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — CB&I announced a consortium between CB&I and Saipem S.p.A. has been awarded a contract by Duqm Refinery and Petrochemicals Industries Company L.L.C. (DRPIC) for EPC Package 3 for the Duqm Refinery Project.
China's private-led refinery complex in Zhejiang to start operations in 2020
(Reuters) — China’s first private-led refinery complex in the eastern province of Zhejiang is expected to start operations in 2020, China Securities News reports, citing a provincial governor, a timeline behind what the company had earlier predicted.
Bahrain to sign Bapco's expansion contracts before year end
DUBAI (Reuters) — Bahrain’s oil minister said on Sunday he expects expansion contracts for Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) to be signed before the end of the year, state news agency BNA reported.
Japan's rural elderly reverse gas station closures
TOKYO (Reuters) — In Shimukappu, a village on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido and home to a popular skiing resort, residents are to reopen the sole gas station in the area, which closed 4 yr ago as sales declined.
Oil and chemical spills from Hurricane Harvey big, but dwarfed by Katrina
NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) — More than 22,000 bbl of oil, refined fuels and chemicals spilled at sites across Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, along with millions of cubic feet of natural gas and hundreds of tons of other toxic substances, a Reuters review of company reports to the US Coast Guard shows.
China's Unipec to ship first VLCC of diesel to Europe
SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Unipec, the trading arm of China’s state-owned Sinopec, is shipping its first very large crude carrier (VLCC) of diesel from China to Europe, two sources close to the matter said on Friday.
Six companies buy oil from US emergency crude reserve
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Six companies bought 14 MMbbl of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a sale required by law to help fund medical research and the federal government, said the Department of Energy on Thursday.
S.Korea's Iranian crude oil imports rise around 40% on year in Aug
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea's imports of Iranian crude oil increased 40.2% in August from the same month a year earlier, with its refiners snapping up competitively priced cargoes from the Middle Eastern nation.
US refiner Phillips 66 charters foreign vessel after Jones Act waiver
(Reuters) — Phillips 66 has chartered a Marshall Islands-flagged vessel, making use of a temporary waiver of the Jones Act that was put in place to meet fuel shortages in the wake of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Argus Media reported on Thursday.
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