Archive for the ‘Optimization’ Category
ExxonMobil Corp. is planning a $2-billion investment to expand its Baytown, Tex., chemical plant. Scheduled for startup in 2022, the expansion will include a performance polymer unit that will produce about 400,000 tonnes/year of Vistamaxx polymers, Ex…
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. subsidiary ADNOC Refining (formerly Takreer) has let a contract to McDermott International Inc. to deliver front-end engineering and design for a refinery offgas project at the combined 817,000-b/d refinery in Ruwais, in the …
Raven Petroleum has received an air permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for a proposed 30,000-b/d crude fractionation unit in South Texas. The planned fractionator is to be sited in Duval County, Tex., at the crossroads of th…
ExxonMobil Corp. has taken a final investment decision on a multibillion-dollar expansion to convert fuel oil and other bottom-of-the-barrel crude products into higher-value lube base stocks and distillates at subsidiary ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Lt…
Higher-octane gasoline seen as more effective fuel efficiency choice
March 27th, 2019 by Latest News
Increasing the octane standard for gasoline sold in the US would improve overall motor vehicle fuel efficiency more effectively than simply waiting for electric and other alternative-fueled cars and trucks to gain a substantial market share, two report…
Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical Co. has let a contract to a China-based joint-venture of John Wood Group PLC to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for a 1 million-tonne/year ethylene expansion project at its 240,…
Unipetrol RPA SRO-Rafinerie, the refining arm of Unipetrol AS and parent company Polski Koncern Naftowy SA (PKN Orlen), has let a contract to McDermott International Inc. to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management services for a u…
Ineos is planning to double the size of subsidiary Ineos Oxide’s proposed ethylene oxide and ethylene oxide derivatives plant to be built somewhere along the US Gulf Coast. Part of Ineos’ plan to address a fast-growing EO merchant market as well as the…
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. subsidiary Port Harcourt Refining Co. has let a contract to Maire Tecnimont subsidiaries to provide services as part of the first leg of a long-planned rehabilitation project at the Port Harcourt refining complex—which…
PetroChina commissions unit at Jilin refinery
March 14th, 2019 by Latest News
PetroChina Co.—the publicly listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corp.—has started up an alkylation unit at its 200,800-b/d refinery in Jilin City, Jilin Province, China. The 9,000-b/d unit reached commercial startup and production just 1…