Archive for the ‘Optimization’ Category
A joint venture of Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corp. and ExxonMobil has let a contract to a consortium of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Zachry Group to provide construction work on a new unit at the JV’s recently approved Gulf Coast Growth Venture…
SABIC and ExxonMobil are proceeding with their previously announced plan to build the Gulf Coast Growth Ventures project, a 1.8 million-tonne/year ethane cracker currently planned for construction in San Patricio County, Tex. The ExxonMobil-SABIC …
ExxonMobil Corp. has completed a project to expand production of high-quality lubricant base stocks at affiliate ExxonMobil Asia Pacific’s 592,000-b/d integrated, two-site refining complex on mainland Jurong and Pulau Ayer Chawan, Jurong Island, offsho…
Eni enters waste-conversion partnership
June 11th, 2019 by Latest News
Eni SPA has signed a partnership agreement with NextChem, Maire Tecnimont’s green chemistry subsidiary, to become codeveloper of technology to produce hydrogen and methanol from solid urban waste and nonrecyclable plastic.
Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Industries, a joint venture of state-owned Oman Oil and Kuwait Petroleum subsidiary Kuwait Petroleum International, has let a contract to John Wood Group to provide front-end engineering design for a proposed onshore p…
As part of its earlier cooperation agreement with state-owned Sonangol EP, Eni SPA has let a contract to a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont SPA for an upgrading project involving installation of two new processing units as well as other utilities and offs…
Sonangol advances plan for new refinery at Cabinda
June 4th, 2019 by Latest News
State-owned Sonangol has officially signed an agreement with the United Shine consortium for construction of a new refinery in Cabinda, Angola. As part of the agreement, signed in Luanda on June 4, the United Shine consortium will move forward wit…
Petronor begins turnaround at Bilbao refinery
May 31st, 2019 by Latest News
Petroleos del Norte SA (Petronor) has started planned maintenance on the largest of two crude distillation units at its 240,000-b/d refinery at Muskiz near Bilbao, Spain. The more-than 140,000-b/d Refining Unit 1 was taken offline on May 27 for a sched…
Delek plots Krotz Springs refinery improvements
May 24th, 2019 by Latest News
Delek US Holdings Inc. will invest $150 million in a series of projects over the next 5 years to improve operations at its 74,000-b/sd refinery in Krotz Springs, La. The proposed enhancement projects at the refinery will include infrastructure improvem…
Shell weighs plan for Louisiana MEG plant
May 20th, 2019 by Latest News
Royal Dutch Shell PLC subsidiary Shell Chemical LP is advancing feasibility studies for a potential $1.2-billion manufacturing expansion of monoethylene glycol (MEG) production at its 841-acre Geismar chemicals complex in Ascension Parish, La.