Archive for the ‘Processing’ Category
Indian refiners plan long LPG pipeline
June 10th, 2019 by Latest News
Three state-owned refiners in India have agreed to form a joint venture to lay what they say will be the world’s longest LPG pipeline, spanning 2,757 km between Kandla, Gujarat, and Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Indian Oil Corp. will hold a 50% share …
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…
Royal Dutch Shell PLC has completed a project to expand crude oil storage capacity at its 500,000-b/d Pulau Bukom refinery on Bukom Island, Singapore. Part of Shell’s investment to enhance competitiveness of the refinery and meet growing demand in the …
Altus commissions Alpine High gas processing train
June 5th, 2019 by Latest News
Altus Midstream Co., a jointly owned partnership of Apache Corp. and Kayne Anderson Acquisition Corp., has commissioned the first of its three cryogenic natural gas processing trains at its Diamond Cryo Complex in Alpine High in the Delaware basin. Wit…
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…
Sasol has commissioned the second 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 L…
SOCAR, Tefken eye urea plant in Azerbaijan
May 31st, 2019 by Latest News
State Oil Co. of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and Tekfen Holding, Istanbul, have signed a memorandum of understanding on construction of a urea production facility at Sumgayit, Azerbaijan.
A final rule signed May 31 by US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew R. Wheeler that waives summertime Reid Vapor Pressure limits and allows year-round sales of gasoline with a 15% ethanol blend was met with disappointment by refiners …
EPA issues temporary emergency fuel waivers
May 31st, 2019 by Latest News
The US Environmental Protection Agency issued emergency fuel waivers for Allegheny County, Pa., to ensure that fuel supplies remain adequate following damage to a pipeline that supplies the area.