The latest downstream news

The new facility in Sweden will help customers in North East Europe improve plant reliability and performance.

SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions recall how microbiological growth and sulfate-reducing bacteria levels were controlled at a refinery in Italy.

Oxford Flow, which supplies pressure control equipment for the oil and gas industry, has made three senior hires for the US and Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The company will be responsible for expanding Basra Oil’s central processing facility in the Majnoon field in southern Iraq.

For the week ending July 6 2018, the four-week average of US gross refinery inputs surpassed 18 million bpd for the first time on record, according to figures from the US Energy Information Administration.

A two-stage dry-running booster compressor manufactured by Mehrer Compression GmbH has helped the Taiwanese Oriental Union Chemical Corp. improve energy efficiency.

The joint venture will purchase gasification assets, power block and associated utilities in Jazan Economic City from Saudi Aramco for over US$8 billion.

Sources who have visited the construction site of the Dangote oil refinery near Lagos, Nigeria, have told Reuters that it is unlikely to begin production until 2022, two years later than the target date.

Toyo Engineering Corp. has secured a contract to add two naphtha cracking furnaces to increase ethylene production at Maruzen Petrochemical Co’s Chiba plant in Japan.

Under the terms of the contracts, two 100 000 metric tpy polycarbonate plants in China will use KBR's proprietary phosgene-based interfacial polycarbonate technology PCMAX™.