Asia/Pacific

Singapore's Aster plans August maintenance for crude, petchem units

Aster, a joint venture between Indonesia's Chandra Asri and trading major Glencore, operates a 237,000-bpd refinery in Singapore's Bukom Island.

Viva Energy to restart Geelong refinery this week, alkylation unit offline

Viva said work at a key processing unit of the refinery, the Residue Catalytic Cracking Unit (RCCU), was completed and that operations will resume this week at over 90% of normal capacity, more than two months after the unit was shut down due to a fire.

Asia has plenty of crude oil, but refined fuels remain tight

The world's top energy-consuming region is expected to import about 22.18 MMbpd of crude in June, up from 20.35 MMbpd in May.

El Nino, expanding ethanol use squeeze India sugar supply

At the same time, India is pushing for higher ethanol blending with petrol and wider adoption of flex-fuel vehicles to cut dependence on expensive imported crude.

China's May refined oil exports rise from April under restrictions, Australia receives agreed volume

China's May gasoline, diesel and jet fuel exports rose from April to major destinations in Southeast and South Asia, but were still significantly less than a year earlier due to export restrictions imposed over the Iran war to safeguard domestic supply.

Australia opens first carbon refinery, making new products from captured CO2

MCI Carbon has been developing the Myrtle Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage technology for 15 years and the demonstration plant can potentially capture 2,500 metric tons of CO2 a year.

Indonesia on track to launch B50 biodiesel program on July 1

Indonesia revived its plan to raise the biodiesel ratio to 50% from the current 40% in March, in a response to the oil supply disruptions that followed the U.S. and Israel attacks on Iran.

Amogy and KOWA partner to provide ammonia cracking-based hydrogen supply in Japan

Opinion: China used crude stockpiles to ease Iran shock, but not that much

For the first time in 14 months China's refiners processed more crude in May than was available to them from both imports and domestic production.

WinGD achieves next ammonia milestone with first X72DF-A engine approval