Archive for the ‘Optimization’ Category

ExxonMobil has let a contract to KBR to provide services related to the operator’s recently approved project to expand refining capacity by more than 65% at its 366,000-b/d integrated refining complex in Beaumont, Tex. As part of the contract, KBR…

Saudi Aramco has signed a $10-billion agreement to form a joint venture with China North Industries Group Corp. (Norinco) and Panjin Sincen to develop a fully integrated, grassroots refining and petrochemical complex in Panjin, in China’s Liaoning prov…

ADNOC Refining (formerly Takreer) has let a contract to John Wood Group to deliver preliminary front-end engineering and design for a refinery to be built in Ruwais, in the western region of Abu Dhabi. With a proposed nameplate capacity of 600,000…

Sasol has commissioned the first of seven production units scheduled to come online as part of its long-planned Lake Charles Chemicals Project, an integrated ethane cracker and downstream derivatives complex under construction in Westlake, La., near La…

Sasol has commissioned the first of seven production units scheduled to come online as part of its long-planned Lake Charles Chemicals Project, an integrated ethane cracker and downstream derivatives complex under construction in Westlake, La., near La…

Meridian Energy Group let a contract to Winkler Cos. to provide site control for a full-conversion refinery in Winkler County, Tex., in the heart of the Permian basin. The Permian basin refinery will have a throughput capacity of about 60,000 b/d and b…

Meridian Energy Group let a contract to Winkler Cos. to provide site control for a full-conversion refinery in Winkler County, Tex., in the heart of the Permian basin. The Permian basin refinery will have a throughput capacity of about 60,000 b/d and b…

Bangkok Synthetics Co. Ltd. has let a contract to Toyo Engineering Korea Ltd., a subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp., to provide engineering, procurement, and construction on two units at the operator’s existing petrochemical complex in Map Ta Phut, R…

Irkutsk Polymer Plant, a subsidiary of Irkutsk Oil, has let a contract to Toyo Engineering to build a grassroots ethylene-polyethylene plant in Ust-Kut, in the Irkutsk Region of East Siberia. As part of the contract, Toyo will deliver engineering, proc…

Canada Kuwait Petrochemical, a joint venture of Pembina Pipeline and Petrochemical Industries of Kuwait, has reached final investment decision to move forward with construction of its proposed grassroots integrated propane dehydrogenation and…