Refinery

Neste of Finland Commissions World's Largest Liquefied Waste Plastic Upgrading Facility in Porvoo, with Annual Capacity of 150,000 Tons

Neste of Finland recently announced the successful commissioning of its new liquefied waste plastic (LWP) upgrading facility at its Porvoo refinery. This projec…

Tata Consulting Engineers Commissions India's First Integrated Bioethanol Refinery in Odisha

Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) has recently participated in the construction and commissioning of India's first integrated rice and biomass-based bioethano…

U.S. Crude Oil Inventories Fall by 9 Million Barrels; Refinery Utilization Rate Reaches 91.0%

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly inventory data for the week ending February 13, 2026, showing that U.S. commercial crude oi…

Vietnam oil & gas firms post record profits in 2025

Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical JSC (HoSE: BSR), operator of the Dung Quat oil refinery, said output was estimated at nearly 7.91 million tons, with revenue…

Metal

Korea Zinc to Build $7.4 Billion US Minerals Refinery With Trump’s Support

Korea Zinc announced on Monday a plan to invest in a major critical minerals refining facility in Tennessee, United States, with a total project value of approx…

Saudi Arabia

Exxonmobil, Aramco and Samref Evaluating Refinery Upgrade and New Petrochemical Complex

Exxon Mobil Corporation, Aramco, and the Samref refinery have signed a Venture Framework Agreement to study a major upgrade and expansion of the Samref facility…

Oil Refinery

Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery Says It Can Deliver 1.5 Billion Litres of Petrol in December

Dangote Refinery announced on Monday that it has the capacity to supply 1.5 billion litres of petrol per month. The company invited the Nigerian Midstream and D…

China

CZPC Receives Investment Licence for Zambia Oil Refinery

The Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has officially issued the investment licence to China Zambia Petrochemical Corporation (CZPC), enabling the immediate start …

Nigeria

Dangote Selects Honeywell Technologies for Upgrade Project at Africa’s Largest Petroleum Refinery

Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE has selected Honeywell International Inc. to provide advanced process technology, proprietary catalysts, equip…

Nigeria

Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery Delays CDU Maintenance to End of January 2026

Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery, Africa’s largest with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, has postponed planned maintenance on its primary crude dist…

Metal

Rio Tinto to Cut Yarwun Alumina Output by 40% From October 2026 to Extend Plant Life

Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto said on Tuesday that it will reduce production at the Yarwun alumina refinery in Queensland by 40% starting next October. The c…

Biorefinery

Petronas, Enilive, Euglena Start Construction of New Biorefinery in Malaysia

A joint venture between Malaysia’s Petronas (PETR.KL), Italy’s Eni (ENI.MI) through its biofuel subsidiary Enilive, and Japan’s Euglena (2931.…

United States

US EPA Approves 14 Small Refinery Biofuel Waivers

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Friday that it had approved 14 requests from small refineries seeking full or partial exemptions fro…

Oil Refinery

Exxon Explores More Refinery Upgrades as It Hones in on Higher-Value Products

Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) is exploring further opportunities to upgrade its refining and chemical operations after launching four new projects this year, an executive…

Oil Refinery

Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery Ramps up Output on Back of New Fuel Import Duty

Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Africa’s largest oil refinery, announced on Saturday that it is increasing production to meet national petrol …