Refining
Vietnam plans oil reserves equivalent of 90 days of imports by 2020
HANOI (Reuters) — Vietnam's prime minister has approved a plan for the country's total crude oil and oil product stocks to be at least 90 days' worth of net imports by 2020.
IRPC Americas '17: IMO 2020 panelists advocate bunker sulfur removal "at the source"
HOUSTON—On Day 1 of Gulf Publishing Company's International Refining and Petrochemical Conference (IRPC) Americas 2018, Hydrocarbon Processing Technical Editor Bob Andrew moderated a late-morning panel discussion on IMO 2020 regulations.
CPC Taoyuan starts up sulfur recovery units with DuPont technology
WILMINGTON, DEL. — The Chinese Petroleum Corporation (CPC) awarded DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont) the contract to supply the technology license, engineering and proprietary equipment for a MECS DynaWave wet gas scrubbing unit to be installed at its Taoyuan refinery in Taiwan in August 2015.
Vietnam's Nghi Son refinery to import its first Kuwaiti crude cargo
SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Vietnam's Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical LLC (NSRP), the owner of the country's second oil refinery, has chartered a supertanker to carry crude from Kuwait in a sign that the behind-schedule project may soon begin startup operations.
China June oil refinery throughput close to record
BEIJING (Reuters) — China's oil refineries ramped up throughput in June to the second highest on record, with some independent plants raising output even as state oil majors prepare to take drastic steps to cut production during the peak summer season.
S.Korea's Hanwha Total says naphtha cracker shut after lightning strike
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea's Hanwha Total said on Monday its naphtha cracker in Daesan has been shut due to power outages caused by a lightning strike.
India BPCL makes its first US oil purchase, buys Mars, Poseidon
NEW DELHI (Reuters) — India's Bharat Petroleum Corp has made its first purchase of US oil, buying high sulfur crudes Mars and Poseidon in a tender, its head of refineries R. Ramachandran said.
North Korea fuel prices surge after China cuts oil sales
SEOUL (Reuters) — Gasoline and diesel prices surged in North Korea in the weeks after a Chinese state oil company suspended fuel sales to the reclusive state, according to data reviewed by Reuters and an interview with a North Korean defector.
Asia's naphtha trapped in downward spiral as supply glut hits
SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Asia is being hit with a naphtha supply glut that could push the market down further, after spot prices in South Korea already flipped from premiums to discounts in late June for the first time since March.
Meridian Energy receives water allocation draft permit recommendation for Davis refinery
BELFIELD, ND — Meridian Energy Group, Inc., a developer of innovative solutions for environmentally-compliant oil refining technology, announced the company has received the Recommended Decision for the Davis Refinery water allocation from the North Dakota State Engineer’s Office.
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- BASF is expanding its portfolio of raw materials for the production of concrete superplasticizers for the construction industry in the European market 5/13
- Ionikylation unit at PetroChina's Dagang refinery reaches 1,000 days of continuous operation 5/12
- thyssenkrupp Uhde successfully commissions EnviNOx® emission reduction system for Covestro’s NAUCI project in China 5/12
- Univation Technologies announces world-scale 800,000-tpy design capacity for UNIPOL™ PE process technology 5/12
