Repsol SA has let a contract to Axens Group of France to license technology for Spain’s first advanced biofuels production plant to be built at the operator’s 220,000-b/d Cartagena refinery in the country’s southeastern province of Murcia, along the Mediterranean Sea.
As part of the Nov. 10 contract, Axens will provide licensing for its proprietary Vegan […]
PBF Energy Inc. is undertaking a reconfiguration of its US East Coast (USEC) refining system, including the indefinite idling of certain processing units, as a result ongoing impacts to demand caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
As part of the operational reconfiguration of USEC refining system—which is comprised of the 190,000-b/d refinery in Delaware City, Del., […]
Phillips 66 has restarted operations at its 249,000-b/d Lake Charles refining complex in Westlake, La., as well as other area midstream installations, following preemptive shutdowns ahead of Hurricane Delta’s Oct. 9 landfall along the US Gulf Coast in southwestern Louisiana.
With reliable electricity supply restored to all of the company’s assets in the Lake Charles area […]
HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Ltd. (HRRL), a 74-26% joint venture of Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL) and the state government of Rajasthan, has let a contract to ABB Power Products and Systems India Ltd. (Hitachi ABB Power Grids) to provide associated power infrastructure for the JV’s proposed 181,000-b/d integrated refinery and petrochemical complex now under construction […]
Raffineria di Milazzo SCPA (RAM)—a 50-50 joint venture of Eni SPA and Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd.’s (Q8) Kuwait Petroleum Italia SPA—has completed an upgrading project at the associated RAM-owned Termica Milazzo SRL’s combined heat and power plant (CHP) of RAM’s 10-million tonnes/year refinery on the northern coast of Sicily in Milazzo, on the west side […]
PTTGC America LLC (PTTGCA), the US subsidiary of Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC), has signed a long-term agreement with Range Resources Corp. subsidiary Range Resources-Appalachia LLC for supply of ethane feedstock to PTTGCA’s proposed 1.5 million-tonnes/year ethane cracker and petrochemical complex planned for Mead Township along the Ohio River in Shadyside, Belmont County, Ohio.
As part […]
Neptune Energy and its joint venture partners BP and JAPEX announced the beginning of the subsea construction phase of the Seagull tie-back project.
TechnipFMC, working under the Neptune Energy Alliance Agreement, has deployed the Apache II pipelay vessel to start the pipe-in-pipe installation, laying approximately 5km of pipe connecting the Egret manifold to the Seagull development.
Neptune […]
Equinor ASA has let a contract to John Wood Group PLC to provide engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) services for a monoethylene glycol (MEG) upgrading project at the Gassco AS-operated Kollsnes natural gas processing plant in Øygarden, Norway, west of Bergen.
As part of the $42-million EPCI contract, Wood will upgrade the MEG regeneration handling […]
PJSC Lukoil has let a contract to Lummus Technology LLC’s Lummus Novolen Technology GMBH to provide technology licensing for a grassroots petrochemical unit to be built at subsidiary LLC Lukoil Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez’s (NNOS) 17 million-tonne/year Kstovo refinery in central Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region.
As part of the contract, Lummus will license its proprietary Novolen gas-phase polypropylene (PP) […]
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) subsidiary ADNOC Refining is advancing work on its previously announced more than $3-billion project to increase crude processing flexibility and improve margins at the 417,000-b/d West plant of 840,000-b/d Ruwais refining complex in the UAE.
As of Aug. 17, the CFP was 73% completed, with major structural elements—notably two new […]
