Asia/Pacific
Shell eyes Asia, aims to expand vehicle recharging at fuel stations
LONDON (Reuters) — Royal Dutch Shell aims to expand marketing operations in Asia and wants 20% of sales from its fuel stations worldwide to come from recharging electric vehicles and low carbon fuels by 2025, as the world shifts away from crude.
CB&I announces technology award for petchem plant in China
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — CB&I announced it has been awarded a contract by Xuzhou HaiDing Chemical Technology Co. Ltd. for the license and engineering design of a grassroots propane dehydrogenation unit to be built in Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
Saudi to supply full crude allocations to most Asian refiners
SINGAPORE/SEOUL (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia will supply full contracted volumes of crude oil to at least five north Asian term buyers in October, while a sixth regional refiner was notified of cuts to its October Arab Extra Light supplies, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Rosneft to ship record 40 MMt of oil to China in 2017
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia's top oil producer Rosneft plans to export a record 40 MMt of crude oil to China this year, Chief Executive Igor Sechin was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Saudi Aramco to add 1.9 MMbbl of crude oil to its Japan storage
TOKYO (Reuters) — Oil giant Saudi Aramco will on Wednesday add 1.9 MMbbl of crude to storage that it holds in Japan, a Japanese trade ministry official said on Monday.
Industry Metrics
US margins recorded solid gains as crack spreads for all products increased due to healthy domestic demand.
Business Trends: The state of the global refining sector
Over the past few years, the world has witnessed significant downstream capacity growth in all sectors of the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI).
Industry Perspectives: Emerging trends in the global refining industry
<i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i>’s Construction Boxscore Database is tracking nearly 700 refining projects around the world.
Editorial Comment: Is the refining market oversupplied, or is the capacity needed?
Over the past two years, the editorial comment in our September issue has focused on the topic of overcapacity in the global refining sector.
China invests $9.1 B in Rosneft as Glencore, Qatar cut stakes
MOSCOW/BEIJING (Reuters) — Chinese conglomerate CEFC will buy a 14.16% stake in Russian oil major Rosneft for $9.1 B from a consortium of Glencore and the Qatar Investment Authority, strengthening the energy partnership between Moscow and Beijing.
- Malaysia plans to produce sustainable jet fuel in 2027 11/27
- ADNOC launches $80-B low-carbon energy and chemicals investment company 11/27
- Chevron sees California's fuel inventory law raising prices for customers 11/27
- Clariant’s MegaMax™ catalysts to power China’s first biomass-to-green methanol project 11/27
- easyJet, Renavia and WFS sign MoU for long-term supply of SAF 11/27
- Cyclyx to invest in second Cyclyx Circularity Center 11/27
