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India's Essar Group plans $4.9 B petrochemical complex in Odisha

India's Essar Group plans to set up a $4.92 B petrochemical complex in the eastern state of Odisha in a tie-up with a global player, it said in a statement.

Sponsored Content: Helping to prevent CUI In Hydrocarbon Processing – An Engineer’s Perspective

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The heavy toll on sulfur blocks

Fluor: Chaudhuri, D.  |  Ruit, H.

The tightening of environmental norms and emissions specifications provides additional challenges to refining.

Hot oil pump warm-up system best practices and failure case study

Saudi Aramco: Brashler, K.  |  Alshahrani, Y.  |  Sabban, M.

Many industries utilize pumps in hot applications, including oil and gas facilities.

Essar oil UK to build £360 MM carbon capture facility

Essar Oil UK Limited announced its plan to build a £360 MM major new carbon capture plant at its Stanlow refinery in line with its ambition to become a leading low carbon refinery by 2030.

AFPM responds to U.S. EPA's new RFS proposal

Following the release of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's earlier announcement about the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) on blending obligations, the AFPM has released the following statement.

Cut emissions and fuel while increasing capacity in fired heaters

IGS: Poth, J.

According to a recent digital refining article,1 fired heaters are responsible for an estimated 400 MMtpy–500 MMtpy of CO<sub>2</sub>, with at least 73% of average refinery CO<sub>2</sub> emissions coming from combustion.

U.S. EPA proposes higher biofuel blending volumes, EV program

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed increases in the amount of ethanol and other biofuels oil refiners must blend into their fuel over the next three years.

A novel deep catalytic cracking technology for residue-to-chemicals processes

SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing: Gong, J.  |  Zhang, J.  |  Zhang, Z.  |  Wei, X.  |  Chang, X.  |  Zhu, J.
SINOPEC Engineering Inc.: Wu, L.
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp.: Cao, D.
SINOPEC Anqing Co.: Ma, Q.

Over the past two decades, annual global demands for refined products and basic petrochemicals have increased by approximately 1.3% and 3.5%, respectively.

More ethanol was blended into U.S. gasoline last summer than ever before

Last summer, when the price of fuel ethanol was lower than the petroleum component of gasoline, record amounts of ethanol were blended into the gasoline sold in the United States (blend rates).