Downstream news updates

Baker Hughes has announced that it has secured a multi-year contract with CPECC, for and on behalf of Aramco, to deploy its Cordant™ APM suite across four Booster Gas Compression Stations in Saudi Arabia.

Tecnimont (MAIRE) attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the Tengiz Gas Separation Complex (GSC) project in the Atyrau Region, Kazakhstan.

LanzaJet has announced that it has fully operated and produced fuels at its LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Georgia, US – marking the production of jet fuel using ethanol as a feedstock at a commercial-scale plant.

An independent study commissioned by Ithaca Energy and endorsed by OEUK shows that 65% of UK crude production ultimately serves UK market through European refining network, Wood Mackenzie analysis reveals.

INEOS has announced a €250 million investment programme to regenerate and modernise its cracker at Lavera, France, as part of a move to secure the future of one of the nation’s most important industrial sites.

ExxonMobil and BASF have formed a strategic collaboration to advance the development of low-emission hydrogen through methane pyrolysis technology.

Aramco has announced 17 memoranda of understanding (MoUs) and agreements with a potential total value of more than US$30 billion with major companies in the US, through its Aramco Group Companies.

DIALOG Group has announced the expansion of Phase 3 of the Pengerang Deepwater Terminals (PDT) in Pengerang, Johor, southeastern Malaysia.

In the latest issue of EnvrioTech (a supplement to Hydrocarbon Engineering), Andrew Symes, OXCCU, UK, explains why Europe should prioritise producing sustainable aviation fuel locally rather than depending on imported methanol.

Ducor Petrochemicals and Blue Circle Olefins have signed an agreement with the aim to produce and co-market segregated bio-polypropylene and carbon recycled polypropylene.

KBC (A Yokogawa Company) has announced the launch of Visual MESA® Energy Management System (EMS) version 7.3, an advanced real-time, model-based, energy digital twin suite of applications.

Alaska LNG, majority owned and developed by Glenfarne Alaska LNG, LLC (Glenfarne), and Baker Hughes have announced a strategic alliance to advance the Alaska LNG Project, US.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor International Corp. (MCO-I) has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil to supply a footprint replacement steam turbine for its olefins plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US.

Clariant has announced that it has signed a 10-year agreement with SECCO Petrochemicals to provide CLARITY Prime digital services at its ethylene plant in Shanghai, China.

Pengerang Biorefinery Sdn. Bhd., a JV between PETRONAS, Enilive, and Euglena, marked a milestone with the groundbreaking ceremony for the development of the new biorefinery in Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia.

OroCarbo has selected Haffner Energy’s SYNOCA® 20?MW module for integration into a 100 tpd biomethanol project in California, US, using Maverick Synfuels’ syngas-to-methanol conversion technology.

Zachry Group has been awarded the FEED scope for the Lake Charles Methanol II Project, US, an initiative that will establish one of the world's largest low-carbon blue methanol facilities.

Verso Energy have announced the selection of Rely to deliver the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the DEZiR eSAF project in Petit-Couronne, Normandie, France.

Enbridge has reached FID on the MLO1 project, which will help meet customer demand for incremental egress, increasing deliveries of Canadian heavy oil to key refining markets in the US Midwest and Gulf Coast.

Working natural gas in storage in the Lower 48 states ended the natural gas refill season with more than 3900 billion ft3, according to estimates based on data from the EIA’s Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report.

Allied Biofuels FE LLC and Praj Industries Ltd have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop Central Asia’s largest ethanol production facility in the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan.

Driven by an increase in wholesale natural gas prices, retail US natural gas prices for every sector have increased so far this year, reports the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Dr. Danny Verboekend, Zeopore Technologies, Belgium, in the November issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering, explains why performant high-porosity zeolites are ready to unlock sustainable growth in producing high-value products, SAF, and chemical feedstocks.

Honeywell has announced a collaboration with TotalEnergies for the ongoing pilot of its AI-assisted Experion Operations Assistant at TotalEnergies' Port Arthur Refinery in Texas, US.