Refinery

Oil Refinery

CITIC Construction Wins bid Worth 5.7 bln USD in Iraq

CITIC Construction Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of CITIC Group, has recently won the bid for the first and second phase of the AI Khairat Heavy Oil Power Plant Proje…

Oil Refinery

Samsung Engineering Starts Shipping Modules for Dos Bocas New Refinery Project in Mexico

Samsung Engineering announced on Nov. 8 that it has started shipping modules to be used for the Dos Bocas New Refinery project in Mexico.

Crude Oil

CNOOC Gives Green Light to Uganda Crude Project

China's state-controlled CNOOC has taken a final investment decision on the Kingfisher crude project in Uganda.

Oil Refinery

Oman’s 230,000 b/d Duqm Refinery Set for 1Q23 Start-up

Oman's 230,000 b/d Duqm refinery project is now 87pc complete and is on course to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2023

Oil Price

Mideast Gulf Gasoline Premium at More Than Decade High

The Mideast Gulf gasoline premium rallied to a more than ten-year high, on the back of strength in the Asian gasoline market and unplanned refinery outages east…

Oil Refinery

Petrofac Secures Lithuanian Refinery EPC Project

Petrofac announces it has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract, valued at around EUR550 million, from PC ORLEN Lietuva to support …

Oil Refinery

France's Feyzin Refinery Restarts Crude Runs

TotalEnergies has restarted the crude distillation unit at its 105,000 b/d Feyzin refinery near Lyon around three weeks after a fire halted operations.

Natural Gas

Refiners Suffer From Record High Natural Gas Prices

Record natural gas prices in Europe and Asia are eroding oil refiner margins

Oil Refinery

Dalian Revives Plan to Relocate PetroChina Refinery

But the long-mooted plan faces financial and potential regulatory hurdles and may increase petrochemical competition in the region.

Oil Refinery

Mexico’s Tula Refinery Halted Since Last Week

Mexico's 315,000 b/d Tula refinery in the state of Hidalgo stopped processing crude late last week because of full product stocks after a rail blockade choked i…

Hydrogen Project

Air Products to Build Blue Hydrogen Plant in Louisiana

Air Products plans to invest $4.5bn to produce blue hydrogen in Louisiana, providing the low-carbon fuel to oil refiners along its US Gulf coast pipeline.

Hydrogen Project

Repsol Produces Hydrogen from Biomethane at Spanish Refinery

Spanish giant claims its first 10-tonne batch of renewable hydrogen offset roughly 90 tonnes of CO2 emissions

Oil Pipeline

Petrobras Closes Contaminated Gasoline Pipeline

Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras temporarily closed its 266km Opasc refined products pipeline because of sulfur contamination.

Hydrogen Production

Repsol to Start up Green Hydrogen Electrolyser

Repsol will start up the first electrolyser in the northern Spanish region of the Basque Country in 2H22, to produce renewable hydrogen at its Petronor refinery…

Oil Refinery

PBF Chalmette Refinery Recovering Post-Ida

Louisiana refinery operations continue to slowly recover as power is restored to areas trounced by Hurricane Ida's landfall on 29 August.