Refining
CB&I wins engineering contract to expand Afipsky oil refinery in Russia
CB&I's project scope includes early detail engineering and procurement services for multiple new process units, including a 2.5-MMtpy hydrocracker unit licensed by Chevron Lummus Global.
Air Products to build world’s largest gases plant to supply Jazan refinery
From the complex, Air Products will supply 75,000 tpd (20,000 oxygen and 55,000 nitrogen) to Saudi Aramco's refinery being built in Jazan, Saudi Arabia, for 20 years.
USW staff at Marathon’s Galveston Bay refinery reject final contract offer
The United Steelworkers (USW) Union rejected Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s final contract offer for the Galveston Bay, Texas refinery.
SABIC to shut Yanbu petrochemical complex for 35-day maintenance
The shutdown will include an ethylene glycol plant, which will suspend operations for 60 days.
US crude output rose to 42-year high in March
March inventories are at the highest level in 85 years, and the production of natural gas liquids also set a record for the month.
Total to convert La Mède refinery to biodiesel plant
After a €200 million conversion, the La Mède site's flagship operation will be a 500,000-tpy biorefinery to manufacture biodiesel primarily from used oils, as well as renewable feedstock.
Total plans €400M upgrade for low-sulfur fuels at France’s Donges refinery
Total is investing €400 million to upgrade its Donges refinery in France to capture profitable new markets with low-sulfur fuels to meet new European Union (EU) specifications.
Rice students win BP’s engineering prize for water treatment in refineries
The Rice students, who prevailed over competitors from six other US universities, developed a plan that would grow microalgae capable of utilizing waste nutrients in order to purify refinery wastewater.
NuStar, Mexico’s Pemex to expand transborder naphtha shipments
Under the terms of the 10-year agreement, which extends a previous 10-year agreement, naphtha produced at Pemex’s Reynosa-Burgos Complex in northern Mexico is transported via the NuStar Burgos-Valley pipeline system to NuStar’s terminal in Edinburg, Texas.
Flint Hills awards $300M construction package to KBR to expand Corpus refinery
Under the deal, KBR will provide construction management and direct hire construction services for the modification and expansion of the Corpus Christi West refinery site.
- JERA signs time charter agreements with NYK and MOL for fuel ammonia carriers 6/23
- Asian refiners see little room for Iranian oil, leaving China as key buyer after U.S. waiver 6/23
- Viva Energy to restart Geelong refinery this week, alkylation unit offline 6/23
- Russia discusses importing fuel amid Ukrainian strikes, Crimea restricts public life 6/23
- Brazil's Petrobras approves $1.2 billion investment for renewable fuels plant 6/22
- First batch of equipment arrives in Kazakhstan for $7.7-B Atyrau polyethylene project 6/22
