Chevron’s Richmond refinery plans upgrade to accommodate Saudi crude
Chevron Corp. (CVX) plans to run higher-sulfur Alaskan and Middle Eastern crudes when it completes work at Northern California’s largest refinery in 2016, not the Bakken oil helping spur the US path to energy independence.
April 29, 2014Continue reading...Marathon Petroleum proposes $2.5 billion upgrade for Garyville refinery
If approved, the project includes new hydrotreating, hydrocracking and desulfurization units, along with infrastructure such as buildings, tanks, cooling towers, and rail and electrical facilities.
April 28, 2014Continue reading...Russian gas cutback threatens Europe’s economy
Europe would suffer from gas shortages and elevated prices if Russian supplies were cut as “there would be very little ability to substitute gas by another energy source", the report said.
April 23, 2014Continue reading...Azerbaijan’s Socar secures $3.9 billion loan to build refinery in Turkey
As well as naphtha, the refinery will produce 4.9 million tpy of diesel and 1.63 million tons of jet fuel, according to company officials. It will also make liquefied petroleum gas and petro-coke.
April 22, 2014Continue reading...Enterprise wins EPA permit on new Texas PDH unit
The permit allows Enterprise Products to build a propane dehydrogenation unit at Mont Belvieu with catalytic reactors, heaters, and gas turbines that maximize thermal efficiency.
April 22, 2014Continue reading...Noble revamps Keota gas design for LNG
The Keota facility, which was designed to process gas from Noble's Denver-Julesburg (DJ) basin operations, was first conceived as a traditional gas processing plant. However, Noble examined other options for Keota as it sought to bring in a clean energy alternative for fueling its DJ rig engines.
April 17, 2014Continue reading...British Airways unveils Essex waste-to-fuel project
British Airways and its partner Solena Fuels will use Velocys’s technology to convert 575,000 metric tons of trash into 120,000 tpy of fuels once the facility is completed in 2017.
April 17, 2014Continue reading...Shintech looks to build Louisiana ethylene cracker to feed PVC production
Shintech, the US subsidiary of Shin-Etsu Chemical (Tokyo), has applied to the Louisiana Department of Environment Quality for a permit to build a 500,000-tpy ethylene plant.
April 16, 2014Continue reading...BASF plans new specialty amines plant in Germany
With this new facility, BASF is expanding its global production network of amines with plants in Ludwigshafen and Schwarzheide in Germany; Antwerp, Belgium; Geismar, Louisiana; and Nanjing, China.
April 16, 2014Continue reading...TOYO Awarded Another LNG Regasification Plant Project in India
Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO, President and CEO Katsumoto Ishibashi) has been awarded a project for a new regasification plant with a send out capacity of 5 million tons to be constructed by GSPC LNG Limited(GLL) at Mundra in Gujarat State on the west coast of India. Toyo-India will lead EPC work on a turnkey basis, from engineering to construction and commissioning. The plant is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016.
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