
EIA: Harvey caused refinery runs to drop
The US EIA reports that Hurricane Harvey caused substantial disruptions to crude oil and petroleum product supply chains.
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The US EIA reports that Hurricane Harvey caused substantial disruptions to crude oil and petroleum product supply chains.

Essar Oil UK plans to invest US$250 million at its Stanlow Refinery to increase throughput, and improve yields and revenues.

Facility assessments and restart activities continue at ExxonMobil’s Baytown refinery, with pipelines beginning to transport fuel. Its Beaumont refinery remains shut down.

Arkema has confirmed that a 1.5 mile evacuation zone around its chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, has been lifted.

The Linde Gases Division and Total Raffinerie Mitteldeutschland are extending their existing partnership by a further 15 years.

ITM Power has agreed a joint project with Shell to install a 10 MW electrolyser at the Wesseling refinery.

Honeywell UOP and Crystaphase provide a case study in how refineries can proactively protect against unexpected silicon poisoning.

CB&I has been awarded contracts by four PetroChina refineries for the license, engineering design and proprietary equipment supply of alkylation units.

Schneider Electric has signed a contract to provide comprehensive process automation systems, solutions and services to the Dangote greenfield refinery in Lagos, Nigeria.

Bapco is using GE’s mobile water technology to convert seawater into usable water at the Awali refinery.

The US IEA claims that it is too soon to assess how long oil production and refining operations will be disrupted due to Hurricane Harvey.

Huawei has been commissioned to build the MEC network for the Ningbo Zhenhai smart refinery.