Gas processing

AMETEK has won a UPS systems contract worth million for the Brazilian state owned company’s new refinery near Rio de Janero.

Grizzly Oil Sands, independent oil sands company based in Alberta, Canada, has awarded a US$ 4 million plus order to Rockwell Automation and its Global Solutions team.

Projects at Vadinar, Bathinda and Paradip are all nearing completion as domestic fuel demand booms.

A group of US businesses and business groups, including API, have written a letter to President Obama asking him to intervene in the implementation of stringent new standards.

Refineries in Argentina, China and Japan have temporarily closed for varying reasons.

Plans to construct a new complex in South Africa are afoot, while the Nigerian government pledges to raise capacity.

ConocoPhillips sells its Wilhelmshaven to a privately owned Dutch company, while in other news Lukoil’s Bulgarian refinery is cleared to resume operations.

A round up of news from refineries across the US.

The American Public Gas Association comment on the Environmental Protection Agency’s propositions to amend the greenhouse gas reporting rule.

Investors plan to set up a large project in Egypt, as Belarus and Iraq outline opportunities for potential future cooperation.

The sales of the Pembroke and Stanlow refineries are completed, as a proposed deal for the Lindsey refinery rumbles on.

The National Petrochemical and Refiners Association has said that the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical reporting rule is imprudent.

API CEO releases a statement in support of budget negotiators of the bipartisan debt ceiling bill, which passed through Congress on August 2nd.

Multiphase simulation can improve performance of oil and gas separation equipment.

API and NPRA cite the new study to contest EPA’s ‘Tier 3’ fuel standard for gasoline blends, labelling the measures economically and environmentally nonsensical.