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Pakistan Refinery to buy its first Nigerian Bonny Light oil from Vitol

The 500,000-bbl, light-sweet crude cargo is expected to load later this month and arrive in Karachi by late September.

Exports of oil products by private Indian refiners

The South Asian nation became the top buyer of Russian seaborne crude after Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Private refiners Reliance Industries and Nayara are Russia's top Indian oil clients.

Russian oil exports will rise after drone strikes shut refineries

The extra oil has the potential to add to downward pressure to the global oil market as supplies are already set to be increased by an output hike agreed on Sunday by OPEC+.

Russia ships first naphtha cargo to Vietnam

Naphtha is a primary feedstock in the petrochemical industry for producing olefins and aromatics, which are then used to manufacture a wide array of products, including plastics, synthetics and various other chemicals, and also used for gasoline blending.

CountryMark refinery (U.S.) to use Topsoe technology for renewable diesel production

Topsoe has been selected as the renewable diesel technology partner for CountryMark’s Mount Vernon, Indiana (U.S.) refinery.

Russia's Ryazan oil refinery halves refining capacity after drone attacks

According to sources, two primary oil refining units were stopped following the drone attacks - CDU-3 with a capacity of 8,600 tonnes (t) per day, and CDU-4 with a capacity of 11,400 tpd.

Brazil's Grupo Potencial to invest $392 MM in corn ethanol plant as part of biofuels complex

Brazil's Grupo Potencial will invest 2 B reais ($392.9 MM) to build a corn ethanol plant in Lapa, Parana state, as part of a plan to develop the world's largest biofuels complex.

Top U.S. refiner Marathon Petroleum beats quarterly profit on higher refining margins

U.S. refiners are posting upbeat quarterly profits, recovering from the losses in the previous quarter on stronger diesel margins.

India's Nayara exports first gasoline since sanctions

Russia-backed Indian refiner Nayara Energy has exported its first gasoline cargo since the privately-owned company was sanctioned by the European Union on July 18.

Fluenta completes flare technology installation at Louisiana amine plant (U.S.)

Fluenta has successfully completed the first installation of its Bias-90 FlarePhase configuration at the Pelican Amine Treating Plant in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.