Refining
Essar Energy to sell Kenya refinery to government
Essar acquired a 50% stake in the company in July 2009 for $7 million from BP, Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell, according to the statement. At the time, Essar agreed to help modernize and expand the facility, the government said. The work had been initially slated for completion in 2015-16.
Air Products to supply hydrogen, other gases to BPCL India refinery
The new industrial gas complex will provide hydrogen, syngas, nitrogen and oxygen for BPCL's Kochi refinery and its proposed petrochemicals complex. The facilities will support India's largest-ever outsourced hydrogen requirement and will result in Air Products' first hydrogen facilities in India.
Foster Wheeler to supply fired heaters for Russia refinery expansion
“The supply of all of the fired heaters required for this new complex at one of the largest refineries in Russia is one of the biggest and most critical packages we have awarded, and we are pleased to have selected Foster Wheeler,” said V.E. Somov, general director of Kirishinefteorgsyntez.
Case history: Sasol’s optimization of the catalyst regeneration process for C5 isomerization
Advanced process control (APC) offers solutions to use full catalyst regenerator capacity safely and to generate substantial benefits. Significant yield increases and operating cost reductions can be ..
Use APC in energy systems―Total’s Leuna refinery case study
Advanced Process Control (APC) has been used extensively to assist in operating refinery and petrochemical processes safely and profitably. However, with the constantly increasing fuel and environment..
Improve inline blending with advanced analyzers
Due to tough economic conditions, refiners are pressed to improve profitability. There is greater pressure to optimize gasoline and diesel blending. What are the options to improve processing of trans..
HP Industry Perspectives: POLL FINDINGS: Pipelines remain crude route of choice for North American refiners
While the Keystone XL pipeline project remains in limbo, the concept behind it is very much alive.Roughly 70% of industry respondents predict that pipelines will be the most popular crude oil transpor..
HP Brief
Changes on the horizon at Harburg refineryNynas has received approval from the European Commission to take over production and responsibility for the base oil plant and associated production units at ..
HP Impact: Lukoil projects energy trends out to 2025
Lukoil recently offered an outlook on the long-term prospects for the global hydrocarbon processing industry. The outlook’s objective is to analyze trends that will (in Lukoil’s view) determ..
HP Impact: US demand for asphalt approaches 28 million tons
US asphalt demand is forecast to increase 3.7% annually to 27.9 million tons (MMt) in 2017. This is equivalent to 154 million bbl of primary asphalt, the vast majority of which is refined petroleum as..
- CNOOC completes construction on $2.9-B, 1.8-MMtpy integrated complex in east China 8/22
- bp's Whiting refinery (U.S.) continues to flare days after severe thunderstorm 8/22
- Bachmann introduces latest version M-Target for Simulink 8/22
- U.S. to rule on biofuel waivers, but big oil refiners may need to wait 8/22
- Chinese independent refiner Hongrun buys Canadian, Brazilian crude 8/22
- Ukrainian attack suspends Russian oil flows to Hungary, Slovakia 8/22
