Downstream news updates

Earlier this year, Union Tech was awarded a contract to install Z4 rising-stem ball valves and paired actuators in Nanjing Chengzhi Yongqing Energy Technology’s 600 kilotonnes per annum methanol-to-olefins (MTO) project.

The new facility in Sydney features a revamped 2 MW engine test cell with an improved acoustic attenuation and an increased crane capacity.

BCCK Holding Co. has been selected by Navitas Midstream Midland Basin, LLC for the construction of a Nitech® Nitrogen Rejection Unit in West Texas.

The Canadian energy company has appointed KfW IPEX-Bank as an adviser in assisting it to finalise a US$-multibillion untied loan guarantee from the German federal government for the construction of the Goldboro LNG facility in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Ewen MacLean has been appointed to the position and joins from Calash.

The three companies will work together to study the feasibility and sustainability of transforming liquefied waste plastic into refinery raw material.

The transaction adds to Topsoe’s portfolio of catalyst and proprietary technologies for the chemical and refining industries.

A report from ESAI Energy suggests that Russia’s oil tax reform will cause an adjustment in investment plans for refineries.

Food Express, Inc., with the assistance of Southern California Gas Co., has added 11 new ultra-low emission natural gas trucks to its fleet.

Orbital Gas Systems has been awarded an exclusive contract to provide routine maintenance, repair and calibration for a major UK natural gas transmission company.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade released a statement on Monday saying it will respond to a request from the Nghi Son oil refinery to export fuels such as gasoline and diesel “soon”.

ExxonMobil Premium HDME 50™ marine fuel is now available through a mass flow metering system that has received third-party accreditation from Lloyd’s Register.

GP Petroleums Ltd (GPPL) has signed an agreement with MAG Lube LLC to manufacture and market IPOL lubricants across the world.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has secured a contract for engineering services for Keyera's Wapiti Gas Plant Phase Two expansion.

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™.