Refining

AFPM has issued a statement in response to the EPA’s recent announcement that it will reject all small refinery ‘gap year’ requests for relief from Renewable Fuel Standard regulatory obligations.

Frames has been awarded a contract to supply a hydrogen recovery and purification system for the MOL Danube Refinery.

Australia's government has announced plans to subsidise the country's refineries in order to keep them open wherever commercially possible.

The US's only offshore terminal, the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), stopped loading tanker ships on Sunday, while the port of New Orleans closed on Monday.

In response to falling fuel demand, the integration of a refinery with a petrochemicals plant can improve the revenue generation potential of refiners, says GlobalData.

The company is exploring the shutdown of its refinery operations in Naantali and focusing the Naantali site on the terminal and harbour operations.

Burckhardt Compression initially purchased a 60% interest in Shenyang Yuanda Compressor, a Chinese compressor manufacturer based in Shenyang, in March 2016.

Implico Group and Aquarius Software collaborate to drive the digitalisation of the oil and gas industry.

Fluor Corp. has announced that its joint venture (JV) with Daewoo Engineering & Construction and Hyundai Heavy Industries, FDH JV, has successfully started up two boilers at the new Al-Zour Refinery.

In order to reach this goal, by 2030 the company will reduce CO2 emissions from its current refining and petrochemical assets by 20%.

Shell Global Solutions International B.V. has awarded Kongsberg Digital an enterprise framework agreement for the supply of digital twin software.

Wood and Aspen Technology have formed a partnership to deliver optimised asset performance management solutions for global enterprises.

The partnership will establish the “Clariant-TJU Academy”.

The engineering services will optimise the refinery’s existing process units’ performance and will address operability and maintenance issues.

The behavioural and economic ramifications of COVID-19 will permanently reduce global energy demand, according to DNV GL’s newly published Energy Transition Outlook.