Archive for the ‘Processing’ Category
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…
Idemitsu Kosan has completed its long-planned takeover of Japanese refiner and marketer Showa Shell Sekiyu. The consolidation was finalized on Apr. 1, Idemitsu Kosan said. Under the business integration plan, Showa Shell Sekiyu has become a wholly owne…
Chennai Petroleum Corp., a partly owned subsidiary of Indian Oil Corp., has let a contract to Chevron Lummus Global—a joint venture of McDermott International Inc. and Chevron Corp.—to provide technology licensing for a delayed coking unit at CPCL’s pr…
Noble Energy Inc. has sanctioned the Alen natural gas development project offshore Equatorial Guinea with the start of production expected in first-half 2021. Gas will be processed through Alba Plant LLC’s liquefied petroleum gas plant and EGLNG’s LNG …
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) has started up a revamped unit now based on composite ionic liquid (IL) alkylation technology at subsidiary Sinopec Jiujiang Co.’s 161,000-b/d refinery in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, China.
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…
Gazprom, partner advance LNG-chemical plan
April 2nd, 2019 by Latest News
Gazprom and RusGasDobycha have begun implementing plans for a large natural gas liquefaction and processing complex on the Gulf of Finland near Ust-Luga, Russia. The companies decided on final configuration of the complex, which will process 45 billion…
Equinor: Johan Sverdrup lift sets record
April 2nd, 2019 by Latest News
Equinor reported “the heaviest lift ever performed offshore” at Johan Sverdrup oil field under development in the Norwegian North Sea.
Saudi Aramco has let a contract to KBR Inc. to provide technology for a supercritical solvent deasphalting (SDA) unit as part of a residue upgrading and clean fuels project at its 126,000-b/d refinery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Confusion about precision and accuracy works deviously in the politics of climate. It glows, for example, in a Mar. 20 judicial finding that the Bureau of Land Management fell short in its assessment of climate effects when it issued oil and gas leases…