Archive for the ‘Optimization’ Category
Bitumen feed delayed for Alberta refinery
May 20th, 2019 by Latest News
North West Redwater Partnership (NWRP) has delayed introduction of bitumen feed from Alberta’s oil sands at the first 80,000-b/d phase of its proposed three-phased greenfield bitumen refinery in Sturgeon County, about 45 km northeast of Edmonton, Alta.
IHS Markit: COTC process seen doubling profits
May 16th, 2019 by Latest News
Crude oil-to-chemicals (COTC), a new chemical process technology, could more than double the profitability derived from a barrel of crude oil, according to IHS Markit. Based on its analysis, global, integrated refining and petrochemical companies curre…
ExxonMobil has let a contract to a consortium of Maire Tecnimont subsidiary Tecnimont SPA and Performance Contractors Inc. to provide front-end engineering design, early execution studies, and early procurement activities for new process units and asso…
Meridian lets contract for Davis refinery
May 14th, 2019 by Latest News
Meridian Energy Group Inc. has let a contract to Emerson Electric Co., St. Louis, to provide automation control systems and technologies for the operator’s grassroots 49,500-b/sd high-conversion Davis refinery to be built in Billings County in the hear…
UAE due IMO 2020-compliant refinery
May 13th, 2019 by Latest News
Brooge Petroleum & Gas Investment Co. is building a 250,000-b/d refinery designed to produce bunker fuel in Fujairah, UAE. The refinery will be the first of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa to comply with new regulations of the Internat…
Chennai Petroleum Corp., a partly owned subsidiary of Indian Oil Corp., has let a contract to McDermott International to provide technology licensing for a polypropylene plant at CPCL’s proposed grassroots Cauvery Basin refinery at Nagapattinam in Tami…
Pemex to proceed with Dos Bocas refinery project
May 10th, 2019 by Latest News
Petroleos Mexicanos has decided it will build Mexico’s previously proposed 340,000-b/d refinery in the Port of Dos Bocas, Tabasco, on its own. The refinery, which comes as one of the main projects to help achieve Mexico’s energy independence and ensure…
OMV, Borealis eye plastic recycling
May 10th, 2019 by Latest News
OMV and Borealis are exploring ways to chemically recycle plastic waste into plastics feedstock at the refining and petrochemical site they share at Schwechat, Austria.
HPCL Rajasthan Refinery, a 74-26% joint venture of Hindustan Petroleum and the state government of Rajasthan, has let a contract to Chevron Lummus Global—a partnership of Chevron USA and McDermott International—to provide process technology for a cokin…
Dutch refiner lets contract for Zeeland refinery
May 8th, 2019 by Latest News
Dutch refiner Zeeland Refinery, a joint venture of Total and Lukoil, has let a contract to Aspen Technology to implement asset optimization software designed to bridge gaps in planning and scheduling at its 72,300-b/d refinery at Vlissingen, the Nether…