Refining
ExxonMobil completes heavy lift of hydrocracker tower at Rotterdam refinery
ROTTERDAM -- ExxonMobil successfully completed the heavy lift of its vacuum fractionation tower for the hydrocracker at its Rotterdam refinery this April.
Bahrain's Bapco starts talks with contractors on Sitra expansion bids
DUBAI (Reuters) -- State-run Bahrain Petroleum Co (Bapco) has started two weeks of negotiations with international contractors to clarify bids to expand the Sitra oil refinery, estimated to cost around $5 B.
Alfa Laval awarded heat exchanger order for West African refinery
LUND, Sweden -- Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers to a refinery in West Africa. The order, booked in the Welded Heat Exchangers unit of the Energy Division late March, has a value of approximately SEK 55 million and delivery is scheduled for 2017 and 2018.
Transneft could raise oil exports to Belarus from April
MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russia's Transneft has the technical capacity to pump 24 MMt of oil to Belarus this year and could start pumping additional volumes from April, an official at the oil pipeline monopoly told Reuters on Tuesday.
Brazil's black market pipeline: Gangs hijack Petrobras' oil, fuel
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -- In September, police investigating a wave of killings in the northern Rio de Janeiro suburbs followed a tip to the isolated scrubland near the massive Duque de Caxias oil refinery.
US East Coast refiners profit on winter gasoline at expense of summer stocks
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The US East Coast gasoline market looks set to begin the summer driving season with fewer barrels in storage than last year, as refiners have been profiting by producing winter grade gasoline longer than usual, trading sources said.
Seeking higher revenues, Saudi sets out stall for light crude
DUBAI (Reuters) -- Despite OPEC's oil output curbs, Saudi Arabia has been offering its customers more light crudes while cutting heavy grades, a trend that could increase as the kingdom wants to maximize revenue and needs more heavy oil to power its own refineries.
CB&I to provide up to 30 technologies to refining, petchem complex in China
THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- CB&I announced it has signed a strategic alliance with Jinzhou Port Co., Ltd. (Jingang) to become the master licensor for an integrated refining and petrochemicals project in Jinzhou City, China.
Rosneft takes first shipment of Kurdish oil for refining system
LONDON (Reuters) -- Russian state oil giant Rosneft will buy its first shipment of oil from Iraq's Kurdistan in early April, becoming the first oil major to take Kurdish crude directly into its refining system, trading sources said on Friday.
China to import first SGC, Thunderhorse oil from US in April
SINGAPORE/HOUSTON (Reuters) -- China will import Southern Green Canyon (SGC) and Thunderhorse crude oil from the Gulf Coast of the United States for the first time when a supertanker carrying 2 MM barrels arrives in April, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.
- China's Wanhua Chemical starts operation at new east China cracker 4/4
- Brookfield Infrastructure announces the acquisition of Colonial Enterprises for $9 B 4/4
- PBF restarts some units at Martinez refinery after February fire; fire-damaged units remain shut 4/4
- Japan to curb gasoline prices from June to cushion U.S. tariff blow 4/4
- Evonik presents innovative "Debonding on Demand" concept for more sustainable bonding 4/3
- Oil, gas and refined product imports exempted from Trump’s sweeping tariffs 4/3
