http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/12/valero-plans-cdu-upgrades-at-port-arthur-texas-us-refinery-in-february/ Among the improvements will be upgrades to processing of bottoms - heavy, gunky residual crude oil that is usually sent to the coker or used in asphalt. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/november-2025/special-focus-process-controls-instrumentation-and-automation/tales-of-innovative-approaches-for-skin-metal-temperatures/ http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/11/update-fire-extinguished-at-venezuelan-oil-upgrader-operations-halted/ Incidents and outages are frequent within PDVSA's aging infrastructure, including oilfields, refineries and upgraders that are key to turning the country's extra heavy oil output into exportable crude grades. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/september-2025/special-focus-refining-technologies/vacuum-distillation-unit-ejector-condenser-interplay/ http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/september-2025/process-optimization/retrofit-hydrocarbon-distillation-systems-using-exergy-analysis-and-product-optimization-a-systematic-framework-and-application-to-ngl-fractionation-part-1/ http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/september-2025/process-optimization/temperature-control-strategies-for-distillation-columns-in-the-cpi/ http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/10/idemitsu-shuts-165-000-bpd-aichi-cdu-for-scheduled-maintenance/ Its smaller rival Cosmo Oil, a unit of Cosmo Energy Holdings, also shut the 100,000-bpd CDU at its Sakai refinery in western Japan on August 27 for scheduled maintenance, with operations expected to resume in October. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/10/taiyo-oil-and-mitsui-chemicals-consider-collaboration-to-expand-supply-of-chemically-recycled-products/ The study aims to have Taiyo Oil's Shikoku Operations handle the heavy fraction of pyrolysis oil from plastic waste, which is difficult for Mitsui Chemicals to process with its crackers. Chemically recycled naphtha, propylene and other products based on the mass balance approach will then be supplied to Mitsui Chemicals. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/09/exxonmobil-starts-up-new-singapore-refining-unit-boosts-sour-crude-imports/ The technology combines processes to convert fuel oil and other bottom-of-the-barrel crude products into higher-value lube base stocks and distillates. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/09/summer-diesel-margins-tighten-with-european-supply-shift/ This summer, Europe’s increased reliance on imports from the Middle East, coupled with conflict-related disruptions to refineries and escalating geopolitical tensions, contributed to a tightened global diesel market.