Refining
SG Biofuels and Bunge form strategic alliance
SG Biofuels has established a strategic partnership with Bunge North America to research and develop a model to process Jatropha seeds into a biofuel feedstock.
CB&I has Middle East storage contract
CB&I has been awarded a contract, valued in excess of $60 million, by Daewoo Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. for the construction of several storage tanks for the Ruwais refinery expansion project in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
HHI debuts new FPSO in South Korea
The Usan FPSO can refine 160,000 barrels of oil and 5 million cubic metres of gas daily. It has storage for 2 million barrels of oil. The facility is 320m long, 61m wide, 32m high and weighs 116,000 tons.
Petrobras selects UOP for two new Brazilian refineries
Petrobras has selected UOP to provide all of the process technologies for two new maximum diesel refineries to be built in Brazil.
Dynamic Fuels opens biofuels plant in Louisiana
Operations are underway at the new Dynamic Fuels plant, which is successfully converting animal fats and greases into renewable fuels. Production began in early October and the volume being produced is 2,500 bpd and growing.
European group says biofuels worse than fossil fuels for environment
Plans to increase the use of biofuels in Europe over the next ten years will require up to 69,000 square kilometers of new land worldwide and make climate change worse, according to a recently released study from the Institute for European Environmental Policy.
CB&I has storage tank contract in Abu Dhabi
CB&I has been awarded a contract, valued in excess of $40 million, by Daewoo Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. for a storage tank project in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Ivanhoe Energy’s Tamarack project marks major advance
Ivanhoe Energy has completed a major milestone towards commercial production at its Tamarack project with the submission of its regulatory application to the government of Alberta, Canada.
Cobalt Technologies and US Navy to develop military jet fuel
Cobalt Technologies has an agreement with the US Navy to develop technology for the conversion of biobutanol into full performance jet and diesel fuels.
Geo Point Technologies buys Kazakh oil refinery
Geo Point Technologies has officially entered the oil refining business in an underserved region of the world with the completed acquisition of GSM Oil Holdings. GSM recently acquired Sinur Oil, which owns and operates an oil refinery in Karatau, Kazakhstan.
- Asia's jet fuel imports from India to hit multi-year highs in November 11/20
- INEOS, GNFC sign MoU to build a new world scale acetic acid unit in India 11/20
- Sinochem may keep bankrupt refineries as auctions draw little interest 11/20
- bp delays Whiting refinery (U.S.) restart from maintenance 11/20
- WGLC 2024 opens with strong call for women’s leadership in energy 11/19
- ClonBio Group selects Seeq for enterprise-wide analytics 11/19
