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Spain’s Repsol adding biofuels plant at Cartagena refinery

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 […]

By |November 16th, 2020|Oil And Gas News|0 Comments

PBF Energy to reconfigure US East Coast refining system

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., […]

By |November 11th, 2020|Oil And Gas News|0 Comments

Phillips 66 restarts Lake Charles refining complex

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 […]

By |October 26th, 2020|Oil And Gas News|0 Comments

HPCL Rajasthan lets contract for grassroots Barmer refining complex

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 […]

By |October 22nd, 2020|Oil And Gas News|0 Comments

Sicilian refiner completes emissions-reducing upgrade

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 […]

By |October 7th, 2020|Oil And Gas News|0 Comments

PTTGCA advances proposed Ohio petrochemical complex

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 […]

By |September 30th, 2020|Oil And Gas News|0 Comments

Neptune Energy commences subsea construction on Seagull project

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 […]

By |September 25th, 2020|Oil And Gas News|0 Comments

Gassco advances upgrade of Kollsnes gas plant

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 […]

By |September 22nd, 2020|Oil And Gas News|0 Comments

Lukoil lets contract for petrochemical unit at Nizhny Novgorod refinery

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) […]

By |September 16th, 2020|Oil And Gas News|0 Comments

ADNOC progresses on Ruwais refinery’s crude flexibility project

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 […]

By |August 31st, 2020|Oil And Gas News|0 Comments