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Refining

China oil giant CNPC sells $3.8 B of engineering assets

China National Petroleum Corp. will sell $3.8 B worth of engineering related assets to a listed arm as part of a push to restructure its non-core business.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to expand North American oil and gas services

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will expand the scope of its oil and gas services to plants in the North American market.

US government halts Dakota Access pipeline construction

The Obama administration stepped into a dispute Friday over a planned oil pipeline in North Dakota, blocking construction on federal land and asking the company behind the project to suspend work nearby.

Linde ends merger talks with Praxair

The executive board of Linde AG has decided to terminate the preliminary merger discussions with Praxair.

Honeywell’s Symphonite increases supply chain efficiency

Honeywell Process Solutions has launched Symphonite, a comprehensive portfolio of supply chain and production management software services designed to boost supply chain reliability, responsiveness and efficiency for a range of manufacturing industries.

Hindustan Petroleum aims at 60 MM ton refining capacity by 2030

India's third biggest crude oil refiner, Hindustan Petroleum Corp., plans to expand its refining capacity to 60 MMtpy by 2030

KBR dividing wall column technology installed at Port Allen refinery

Placid Refining Company LLC successfully started a grassroots dividing wall column reformate splitter at their Port Allen, Louisiana refinery using KBR's Distill-Max DWC technology.

Enterprise Products Partners withdraws indication of interest in Williams

Enterprise Products Partners LP has withdrawn its indication of interest in The Williams Companies, Inc. regarding the possible combination of Enterprise and Williams.

China's Zhejiang Rongsheng eyes doubling refinery capacity in 2020

Chinese conglomerate Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding Group plans to double capacity of a joint venture refining project to 800 Mbpd in 2020.

US refiners revamp operations as renewable fuel costs surge

US oil refiners, beset by the weakest profit margins in six years, have been laying off workers, revamping operations and ratcheting up pressure on regulators and lawmakers to tweak the renewable fuel program, whose costs have ballooned.