Abreu e Lima Refinery initiates Atmospheric Distillation Unit start-up procedure
Petrobras began the first step to start-up the Abreu e Lima Refinery (Rnest), a company project located in Ipojuca, Pernambuco, by injecting natural gas into the Atmospheric Distillation Unit (UDA).
November 24, 2014Continue reading...Petrovietnam increases stake in $4.6bn Long Son petrochemical complex
State-owned oil and gas firm Petrovietnam has increased its stake in the $4.6bn Long Son petrochemical complex in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, Vietnam, by acquiring a further 11% stake from Vietnam National Chemical.
November 19, 2014Continue reading...Technip to help expand Westlake Chemical’s Louisiana ethylene plant
Technip has widened its range of services and has reinforced its leadership in the downstream business since the acquisition of Stone & Webster process technologies in 2012.
November 18, 2014Continue reading...BP to upgrade US, Belgian PTA chemical plants
By applying the latest PTA technology to these plants, BP expects to greatly improve feedstock and energy efficiency, thus reducing both variable and fixed cost and greenhouse gas emissions.
November 18, 2014Continue reading...Dangote Group predicts new oil refinery in Nigeria to launch by mid-2018
The plant in the Lagos area will be able to process 500,000 bpd of crude, George Nicolaides, Dangote Industries’ operations director for petroleum refining, said in an interview.
November 17, 2014Continue reading...Huineng SNG plant goes on-stream transforming coal into clean energy in China
Haldor Topsoe A/S today announced that Huineng, a large-scale SNG (Substitute Natural Gas) plant, went successfully on-stream near the city of Ordos, located in Inner Mongolia in the northern part of China. Topsoe has designed the methanation section of this plant, which is the company’s second large-scale coal-based industrial SNG reference to begin operations in China following last years’ opening of Qinghua, the world’s largest SNG plant located in the Xinjiang region.
November 17, 2014Continue reading...Petronas to Buy Phillips 66's Stake in Malaysia Refinery
Petronas has agreed to buy out the remaining 47% in Malaysian Refining Company Sdn. Bhd. held by Phillips 66 (PSX) for around $635 million.
November 12, 2014Continue reading...CB&I to build hydrogen plant for Kansas refinery
The project scope includes the engineering, procurement, fabrication and field construction of a 22 million standard cubic feet/day hydrogen plant at its refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas.
November 11, 2014Continue reading...KBR to expand SABIC butadiene unit at Al Jubail
The site has an installed capacity of 5.15 million tpy of petrochemicals including olefins, PVC / VCM, polystyrene and polyethylene plants, in addition to utilities and steam generation.
November 11, 2014Continue reading...Rosneft, China’s CNPC launch feasibility study on Tianjin refinery project
The members of the board adopted a resolution to optimize the oil refining segment of the Tianjin refinery by the end of February 2015 with a primary crude processing capacity of 16 million tpy and a package for production of aromatic hydrocarbons with a capacity of 1.4 million tpy of paraxylene.
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