PJSC LUKOIL is adding a second gas processing unit (GPU) that will enable increased production of petrochemicals from northern Caspian Sea natural gas at subsidiary Stavrolen LLC’s petrochemical complex in Budennovsk, Stavropol Region, Russia.
Officially breaking ground on Oct. 7, the project includes construction of the 2.8-billion cu m/year GPU-2, which—once completed—will boost Stavrolen’s processing capacity […]
Repsol SA is investing €8.9 million to build an electrolyzer for production of renewable hydrogen at its majority owned Petróleos del Norte SA’s (Petronor) 220,000-b/d Bilbao refinery in Múskiz, Abanto-Zierbena, in northern Spain’s autonomous Basque Country.
Alongside providing renewable hydrogen for the refinery, the 2.5-Mw electrolyzer—which is scheduled for startup in second-half 2022—will supply other nearby […]
Navitas Midstream Partners LLC, The Woodlands, Tex., has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC to deliver a 200-MMcfd cryogenic natural gas processing plant the operator will use to extract NGLs from gas produced in several counties across the Permian basin.
Honeywell UOP’s scope of work under the contract will include design and supply of proprietary […]
State-owned South Gas Co. (SGC)—a subsidiary of Iraq’s Ministry of Oil—has let a contract to a division of Baker Hughes Co. to provide a series of services and equipment for a new 200-MMcfd natural gas processing plant to be built installed in Dhi Qar Province.
As part of the contract, the Baker Hughes Turbomachinery & Process […]
Repsol SA has produced the first batch of biofuel for the aviation industry at its 186,000-b/d Tarragona integrated refining and petrochemicals complex along northeastern Spain’s Costa Daurada of the Mediterranean Sea.
Produced from a feedstock of unidentified biomass, Tarragona’s first 10,000-tonne batch of biojet fuel—equivalent to fuel consumption of 145 flights between Barcelona and Los Angeles—has […]
Sinopec has let a contract to John Wood Group to provide EPC services for work related to a petrochemical expansion at Sinopec Hainan Refining & Chemical’s refinery development in the Yangpu Economic Development Zone of Hainan Free Trade Zone, China.
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) has let a contract to John Wood Group PLC to […]
Egyptian Refining Co. (ERC) has achieved full startup and production rates from key units at its recently commissioned hydrocracking refinery built within the existing Mostorod Petroleum Complex, 20 km northeast of Cairo in Qalyoubia governate, Egypt.
As of Dec. 21, the refinery’s naphtha hydrotreating unit, Axens Group-licensed Octanizing continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR) reforming unit, Prime-D diesel […]
ConocoPhillips Scandinavia started production from Tor II, a redevelopment of Tor field previously on production from 1978 through 2015. It is the first redevelopment of a shut-in field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and is starting up 12 months after approval of the plan for development and operation by the Norwegian authorities.
Tor is a unitized […]
Phillips 66 has started up two new NGL fractionators at its Sweeny Hub in Old Ocean, Tex., quadrupling the site’s processing capacity to 400,000 b/d.
Now in operation, the two 150,000-b/d fractionators reached mechanical completion this summer and came online in September-October, on time and despite challenges posed by weather events and the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) […]
Serbia’s Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) JSC Novi Sad has commissioned its long-planned deep conversion, or bottom-of-the barrel (BOTB), complex as part of the operator’s second-stage modernization program to improve energy efficiency, boost production of higher-quality products, and ensure operational reliability at its 4.8-million tonnes/year refinery at Pančevo.
Launched on Nov. 18, the more than €300-million BOTB […]
