Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOC) has let a contract to Larsen & Toubro Ltd. subsidiary L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE) to revamp a major processing unit as part of IOC’s project to increase crude oil processing capacity at its 6-million tonne/year (tpy) Barauni refinery in Begusarai District, Bihar.
As part of the Jan. 5 contract, LTHE will […]
Abu Dhabi Polymers Co. Ltd. (Borouge), a joint venture of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.(ADNOC) and Borealis AG, has let a series of major contracts for the recently approved fourth expansion of Borouge’s integrated polyolefins complex in Ruwais, about 250 km west of Abu Dhabi City, UAE.
As part of a Dec. 6 contract award, the […]
Fujian Refining and Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (FREP) has commissioned a new alkylation unit at its 12-million tonnes/year (tpy) integrated refining and chemical production complex at the southern coast of Meizhou Bay in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China.
As of mid-December, FREP had started up and completed performance the performance test of the new STRATCO alkylation unit, certifying […]
Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Aramco) has awarded 16 subsurface and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts worth $10 billion to start development of its 200-tcf Jafurah unconventional onshore natural gas field, the largest non-associated gas field in the Kingdom. The company is targeting 200 MMscfd of production by 2025 and a sustained 2 bcfd of […]
Calgary-based Parkland Corp. is pausing processing activities at subsidiary Parkland Refining (B.C.) Ltd.’s 55,000-b/d refinery on Burrard Inlet in North Burnaby, near North Vancouver, BC, amid feedstock supply disruptions caused by the ongoing shutdown of the 300,000-b/d Trans Mountain crude oil pipeline.
After initiating steps to halt refining operations on Nov. 22 following a mid-November shutdown […]
Thai Oil PLC has let a contract to a division of Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd. to supply critical equipment for the operator’s ongoing Clean Fuel Project (CFP) at its 276,000-b/d refinery at Sriracha, in eastern Thailand’s Chonburi province.
In mid-November, Godrej Process Equipment completed supply of a high-pressure separator with a design pressure above […]
Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has signed a contract to sell its 5,800-b/d Unidade de Industrialização do Xisto (SIX) unit—including a mine in one of the world’s largest oil shale reserves and a shale processing plant—in São Mateus do Sul, Paraná, to Forbes & Manhattan Resources Inc. (F&M Resources), a subsidiary of privately-held Forbes & Manhattan […]
Royal Dutch Shell PLC has let a contract to Worley Ltd. to provide engineering and procurement (EP) services for the operator’s recently approved project to build an 820,000-tonnes/year (tpy) biofuels plant at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery.
The EP contract award follows Worley’s collaboration with Shell […]
Eni SPA has started producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) via coprocessing of used cooking oils (UCO) with conventional crude at its 104,000-b/d Taranto refinery in southeast Italy.
As part of the site’s first step under Eni’s commitment to decarbonizing all its products and processes by 2050, the Taranto refinery is now blending a 0.5% share of […]
Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has ended discussions with Ultrapar Participações SA (Ultrapar) related to the latter’s now terminated binding proposal for the proposed purchase of Petrobras’ 208,000-b/d Refinaria Alberto Pasqualini (REFAP) refinery and associated assets in Rio Grande do Sul.
Despite best efforts made by both companies, Petrobras and Ultrapar agreed to end negotiations with no […]
