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Axens has been selected by NRL to license a naphtha hydrotreating unit, a continuous catalytic reforming unit, a C5-C6 isomerisation unit, and a FCC gasoline selective desulfurisation unit.
Unusually harsh weather for the US southern states has knocked out more than 3 million bpd of refining capacity in the US Gulf, according to Reuters calculations.
A grassroots refinery with 9 million tpy capacity is to be set up at Nagapattinam by a joint venture between IndianOil and Chennai Petroleum Corp. Ltd.
Javelina is a treating and fractionation plant that extracts olefins, hydrogen, and NGLs from the gas streams produced by local refineries.
As much as 743 000 bpd of oil-processing capacity has been idled, nearly 22% of Japan’s roughly 3.4 million bpd capacity.
The gas cleaning systems were ordered by Compañía Española de Petróleos SA for their refineries in La Rabida and San Roque.
Significant contracts in 4Q20 included Samsung Ingenieria Manzanillo and Asociados Constructores’ US$3.6 billion EPC contract for various units of Dos Bocas refinery project in Mexico; and Samsung Engineering’s US$1.07 billion contract for the provision of licensor, engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (LEPCC) services for a methanol production facility in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia.
The decision was made following an extensive review of operations at Australia’s smallest refinery, which commenced operation in 1949.
The STRATCO alkylation unit will enable ORLEN to generate low-sulfur, high-octane, low-Rvp alkylate with zero olefins that meets the criteria of the EURO VI standard.
A subsidiary of CVR Energy, Inc. is proceeding with the next phase of the KBR Solid Acid Alkylation Technology project for its refinery in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, US.
The Carlyle Group has agreed to increase its shareholding in Varo Energy, which owns the Cressier refinery in Switzerland.
The project consists of a supplying a replacement burner for a single burner process heater incorporating the ClearSign Core NOX reduction technology.