http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/kbrs-phenol-technology-selected-by-sabic-fujian-petrochemicals/ KBR announced it has been awarded a contract by SABIC Fujian Petrochemicals to license KBR's market-leading phenol technology in China. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/honeywell-technology-helping-to-produce-saf-with-lower-cost-and-waste/ Honeywell announced its hydrocracking technology can be used to produce SAF from biomass, helping to make SAF that is 90% less carbon intensive than traditional fossil-based jet fuels. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/nigerias-nnpc-partners-local-firm-on-new-100-000-bpd-refinery/ Nigeria's state-owned oil firm NNPC Ltd signed an agreement allowing a local refiner to build and operate a 100,000 bpd refinery within NNPC's Port Harcourt Refinery complex in the south of the country. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/brazils-timbro-to-export-40-more-sugar-enter-ethanol-market-in-2024/ Brazilian international trade platform Timbro expects to increase its sugar exports by more than 40% in 2024 to 2 MMt, while also expanding operations to enter the ethanol market. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/lg-chem-denies-report-it-will-merge-naphtha-cracker-business-with-lotte-chemical/ South Korean petrochemical company LG Chem denied a media report saying it is considering merging its naphtha cracker business with rival Lotte Chemical. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/crude-and-gasoline-stocks-fell-distillate-stocks-rose-last-week-eia-says/ Crude inventories fell by 6.4-MM barrels to 453.6 MM barrels in the week ended April 19, the EIA said, compared with analysts' expectations in a poll for a 825,000-barrel rise. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/ineratec-secures-state-of-the-art-catalysts-from-sasol-for-the-production-of-sustainable-e-fuels/ INERATEC and Sasol have signed a five-year contract for the supply of Fischer-Tropsch catalysts. INERATEC will use Sasol's state-of-the-art catalysts for the production of sustainable e-fuels, e.g. for aviation. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/jx-to-join-forces-with-sumitomo-at-large-scale-safbeccs-project-in-louisiana-us/ JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation executed consortium agreements to manage investment in the Louisiana Green Fuels BECCS project  at Port of Columbia, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana (U.S.). https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/westjet-buys-first-canadian-supplied-saf-by-shell-aviation/ The airline said the purchase marks a milestone in its mission to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, and is a step forward in making Canada’s aviation industry more sustainable. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/technip-energies-selected-by-viridor-to-perform-feed-on-the-runcorn-energy-from-waste-carbon-capture-project-in-the-uk/ Technip Energies  has been awarded a FEED contract by Viridor for the CCS project at one of the United Kingdom’s largest Energy-from-Waste facilities in Runcorn, United Kingdom and plans to capture around 900,000 tons of CO2 each year, half of which will be from biogenic sources, effectively removing 450,000 tons of CO2 annually from the atmosphere.