Archive for the ‘Refining’ Category
Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL) will receive major heavy equipment ahead of schedule that is to be installed as part of its previously announced program to expand and modernize its 166,700-b/d Vishakhapatnam (Visakh) refinery in Andhra Pradesh on…
OGJ Newsletter
April 8th, 2019 by Latest News
International news for oil and gas professionals
Eni, Fiat test low-carbon dioxide vehicle fuel
April 5th, 2019 by Latest News
Eni SPA and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) are developing a high-alcohol vehicle fuel that they say can lower exhaust emissions of carbon dioxide by up to 3% under Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedures.
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…
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) subsidiary Port Harcourt Refining Co. Ltd. (PHRC) has let a contract to Maire Tecnimont SPA subsidiaries to provide services as part of the first leg of a long-planned rehabilitation project at the Port Harcourt…
PRL advances upgrade of Karachi refinery
April 3rd, 2019 by Latest News
Pakistan Refinery Ltd. (PRL) 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
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…