Archive for the ‘Optimization’ Category
Indian Oil Corp. has let multiple contracts totaling $12 million to Emerson Electric Co. to provide services related to a major modernization and upgrade of operations and emissions programs to increase operational efficiency, reduce emissions, and exp…
Borealis lets contract for Kallo PDH unit
March 7th, 2019 by Latest News
Borealis has let a contract to a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont SPA for work related to the operator’s previously announced plan to build a grassroots propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant at its existing production site in Kallo, Belgium.
Slavneft-Yaroslavnefteorgsintez (Slavneft-Yanos), part of NGK Slavneft—a joint venture of Gazprom Neft and Rosneft—ramped up crude oil throughputs by 1.5% in 2018 to more than 317,000-b/d at its 300,000-b/d refinery in Yaroslavl, Russia. The boost…
Work proceeds on Egypt’s Midor refinery expansion
March 5th, 2019 by Latest News
TechnipFMC has completed remaining conditions required to enable work to begin on an earlier awarded contract let by the Egyptian government for delivery of engineering, procurement, and construction services related to the modernization and expansion …
PRL advances upgrade of Karachi refinery
March 4th, 2019 by Latest News
Pakistan Refinery is moving forward with its previously announced plan to upgrade and expand its 55,000-b/d hydroskimming refinery along the coastal belt of Karachi, Pakistan. The proposed $1-billion project aims to upgrade the site into a deep convers…
Preem lets contract for Lysekil refinery
March 4th, 2019 by Latest News
Swedish refiner Preem AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Corral Petroleum Holdings AB, Stockholm, has let a contract to Aker Solutions ASA to perform tests and studies of carbon-capture technology at its 228,900-b/d refinery at Lysekil, on the west coast…
Bayport Polymers (Baystar)—an equal joint venture of Total’s Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA and the Borealis-Nova Chemicals JV Novealis Holdings—has started construction of its previously announced Borstar Bay3 project at its production s…
National Petrochemical Industrial Co., a Saudi joint-stock company, has let a contract to a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services for the revamp of a plant at its 400,000-tonne/year propylene-polyp…
Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical, a joint venture of Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical, has let a contract to Jacobs Engineering to provide preliminary works for the operator’s proposed fuel oil upgrading—or bottom-of-the-barrel—project at its 400,…
Ineos AG, Rolle, Switzerland, is investing £350 million to build an energy-efficient electric power plant at its majority owned Petroineos Refining Ltd.’s 180,700-b/d Grangemouth integrated refinery complex on the Firth of Forth in Scotland, which as …