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US margins fell due to the slowing of domestic gasoline demand, as the driving season ended amid high inventories.
Saudis, Mideast producers vie for China's teapot crude imports
Top global oil exporter Saudi Arabia is looking at new ways to sell crude to China, offering more cargoes at spot prices and more lenient payment terms.
SPIE to provide commissioning management support to KNPC Clean Fuels Project
SPIE Oil & Gas Services has been awarded a 5-year contract with Kuwait National Petroleum Co. under the Clean Fuels Project which is currently in the EPC phase of implementation.
SABIC starts commercial operations at part of new rubber plant
SABIC started commercial operations at the polybutadiene industrial rubber part of its KEMYA complex, a JV with ExxonMobil Chemical.
Two workers die in fire at Saudi Aramco plant
Saudi Aramco said on Thursday that two workers died of injuries sustained in a fire that broke out at its Wasea crude oil plant in central Saudi Arabia.
UAE's ENOC to self-fund refinery expansion
Emirates National Oil Co. has decided it will self-finance the $1-B expansion of its Jebel Ali oil refinery.
Kuwait’s KNPC aims to finalize $5 B loan by Q1
Kuwait National Petroleum Co. expects to finalize a loan of well over $5 billion to finance its Clean Fuels project by the end of Q1 of next year.
Pakistan Refinery seeks loan to increase capacity
Pakistan Refinery is in talks with international banks over a potential syndicated loan to increase refinery capacity.
Royal Dutch Shell signs MOU with Iran's National Petrochemical
Royal Dutch Shell signed a preliminary memorandum of understanding with Iran’s National Petrochemical Co. for cooperation in the petrochemical industry.
Measure naturally occurring radioactive material in polypropylene plants
In the petrochemical industry, process plants often rely on radiation-based level and density detectors.
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- Gauging the likely Trump effect on U.S. energy and power sectors 11/22
- Russia's Lukoil restoring cracker at NORSI refinery, gasoline output rising 11/22
- Nigeria's local currency crude sales fall short of target, Dangote refinery says 11/22
- U.S. October gasoline imports hit post-pandemic low on slump in European shipments 11/22
- Clean Hydrogen Works awards McDermott FEED contract for Ascension Clean Energy (ACE) project 11/21
