Study: US oil exports will cut refinery investments
Domestic capacity increases by 2.4 million bpd, assuming the ban is unchanged, and by 800,000 if it’s lifted, according to a new report by Turner, Mason & Co. for the EIA.
May 6, 2015Continue reading...Abengoa to build new US waste-to-biofuels plant
Abengoa was selected to build the first US biorefinery using gasification technology to convert municipal solid waste (MSW) into syncrude that will be upgraded into jet fuel.
May 5, 2015Continue reading...Jacobs Awarded Contract for Huntsman’s Jurong Island Expansion
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced that it has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for an expansion program at Huntsman Corporation’s world scale polyetheramine facility in Singapore.
May 5, 2015Continue reading...China pushes up timetable for cleaner gasoline, diesel fuels to 2017
China will cap sulfur content in gasoline and diesel at 10 parts per million starting in 2017, one year before an earlier deadline, the State Council said after a meeting presided over by Premier Li Keqiang.
May 4, 2015Continue reading...Honeywell opens China propylene catalysts plant
This new site in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province, has begun production of catalysts used to covert propane to propylene as traditional sources for this product shrink.
April 30, 2015Continue reading...Total: Rising refining margins in Europe won’t last due to surplus capacity
The surge in European refining margins, which jumped by the most in 4 years last quarter, cannot be sustained because the region still has surplus processing capacity, Total said.
April 29, 2015Continue reading...Technip wins project management work for Basra refinery upgrade in Iraq
The project will aim at increasing the gasoline production capacity through the installation of a new FCC unit and associated units like visbreaker, hydrotreating, hydrogen plant, etc.
April 28, 2015Continue reading...India starts up 300,000 bpd Paradip refinery
(Reuters) - Indian Oil Corp (IOC.NS), the country's biggest refiner, on Sunday began crude processing at its 300,000 barrel per day (bpd) Paradip refinery and aims to fully commission the plant in six months, two company sources said, potentially adding to the glut of oil products in the region.
April 27, 2015Continue reading...TOYO Awarded Ethylene Plant Project in USA
Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO, President and CEO Kiyoshi Nakao) has been awarded a project to construct a 500,000 t/y ethylene plant licensed by Lummus Technology Inc. of U.S., in Plaquemine, Louisiana, by Shintech Inc., a subsidiary of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., Japan. The produced ethylene will be supplied as feedstock to Shintech’s existing PVC resin production facilities.
April 27, 2015Continue reading...Shintech commits to new US Gulf ethane cracker, contracts Toyo, CB&I
The new facility will use the licensed ethylene technology by Lummus Technology. The produced ethylene will be supplied as feedstock to Shintech’s existing PVC resin production facilities.
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