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HP In Brief: HPIn Brief

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Cobalt Technologies has an agreement with the US Navy to develop technology for the conversion of biobutanol into full performance jet and diesel fuels. Under the agreement, n-biobutanol produced by C..

HP Impact: European downstream oil industry safety performance

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

CONCAWE has released a report that parses statistics on work-related personal injuries for the European downstream oil industry’s own employees, as well as contractors, for the year 2009. Data we..

HP Impact: Ethanol to hit refining profitability

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Surging ethanol blending will undermine wholesale gasoline prices in the Atlantic Basin, starting in 2012, according to ESAI’s newly updated two-year outlook. The outlook says that ethanol will a..

HP Associations: Growing the fuel pool

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Whether refiners like it or not, the drumbeat for renewable fuels grows daily. The building momentum for such fuels is boosted by government mandates and regulations. Unfortunately, the tidal wave for..

Technip working on Total’s hydrocracker in the Normandy refinery

Technip has been awarded by Total an engineering, procurement services and construction management contract to increase the capacity of the hydrocracker at the Normandy refinery located in Gonfreville, France.

Neste Oil starts up new renewable diesel plant in Singapore

Neste Oil has started up the world's largest renewable diesel plant in Singapore. Production of NExBTL renewable diesel will be ramped up on a phased basis.

Husky purchases property from ExxonMobil Canada and moves forward with Sunrise

Husky Energy has signed a purchase and sale agreement with ExxonMobil Canada Ltd. to acquire oil and natural gas properties in Alberta and northeast British Columbia.

Neste Oil's NExBTL renewable diesel receives certification in Germany

Neste Oil has received an International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) certificate for the NExBTL renewable diesel produced at the company's Porvoo refinery in Finland.

BASF and Gazprom celebrate 20-year partnership

BASF and its oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall commemorated 20 years of German-Russian economic history together with Gazprom at an anniversary event in Berlin.

Full speed ahead with Praxair’s new Indiana hydrogen facility

Praxair, Inc. has begun supplying BP’s refinery complex in Whiting, Indiana, with hydrogen from its new hydrogen facility. The two steam methane reformers have a total capacity of 200 million standard cubic feet per day.