Refining
Production at Nigeria's Warri refinery unaffected by nearby explosion
Crude oil production at Nigeria's Warri refinery in the country's restive Niger Delta region has not been affected by an explosion heard near the site.
Automation Strategies: Identify challenges in alarm management
ARC Advisory Group recently conducted a survey on practices and trends in alarm management in the process industries.
Reliability: Reassess and redirect your approach to a long-term career
It was not too long ago that a prospective employee could expect a 30-year career within an oil refinery or a petrochemical plant.
US Water’s PhosZero chemistry named finalist in R&D 100 Award
US Water has been selected as a finalist by the R&D 100 Award Program for PhosZero, its unique antiscalant and corrosion inhibitor, cooling water chemistry.
Glencore unit to pay $27 million for biofuels compliance
Glencore’s bunker fuel unit has agreed to pay a $27 MM penalty and retire over $71 MM worth of credits for compliance with the US biofuels program to resolve charges it violated the policy.
ASTM seeks participants to develop cetane test method
ASTM International is welcoming participants to create the first constant volume combustion chamber test method that would measure the generic cetane number of diesel fuels.
EIA: Pipeline disruption leads to record gasoline stock changes in Southeast US, Gulf Coast
The outage of Colonial Pipeline Line 1 between September 9 and September 21 resulted in record changes in motor gasoline stocks in both the Lower Atlantic and Gulf Coast states during the week ending September 16.
Much of 2017’s oil demand growth may bypass refineries
US shale gas may displace a growing portion of the world's expanding energy demand, cutting into the need for oil products from refineries.
German petroleum industry discusses future of electronic data exchange
Representatives of the major players in the German petroleum industry convened at Implico’s headquarters in Hamburg for the twelfth meeting of the IFLEXX Community.
EIA: US exports distillate from Gulf Coast, imports on East Coast
Patterns of US distillate trade can be explained by regional supply and demand imbalances within the East Coast and Gulf Coast regions.
- Consortium creates world's first supply chain for the production of renewable plastics 2/6
- Valmet to deliver advanced process analytical solutions to Dow’s Path2Zero ethylene project 2/6
- Tampnet brings mission-critical connectivity to hydrocarbon processing industries 2/6
- Cheniere submits application to build massive LNG plant in Texas 2/6
- OQ and Kuwait Petroleum sign PDA for Duqm petrochemical complex project 2/6
- Phillips 66 to lay off workers as Los Angeles (U.S.) refinery shuts down 2/6
