Refining

Verbio has started construction to convert its South Bend ethanol plant into the second integrated biorefinery plant in North America.

The potential for a stronger hurricane season suggests heightened risk for weather-related production outages in the US oil and natural gas industry.

Maire has announced that Kinetics Technology (the subsidiary part of the Integrated E&C Solutions Business Units operating in support of the Sustainable Technology Solutions Business Unit) has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of APS Evolution S.r.l, parent company controlling APS Designing Energy S.r.l. and KTI Poland S.A.

AMETEK Land has provided a large US ethylene producer with 28 thermal imagers to provide continuous temperature measurements for optimum process control in its four cracking furnaces.

MAIRE has announced that NEXTCHEM has finalised the acquisition of 100% of GasConTec GmbH, a company specialised in technology development and process engineering.

The EIA reports that average monthly prices for regular-grade retail gasoline in the US could increase by more than 10 cents per gal. if refinery output is lower than expected.

KBR has been awarded a contract by OCI Global to design and deploy its proprietary operator training simulator for OCI’s Texas Blue Clean Ammonia facility in Texas, US.

Worley has been selected to design and evaluate carbon dioxide gathering, handling and sequestration facilities for the Bayou Bend CCS LLC joint venture.

This agreement formalises an important alliance aimed at strengthening collaboration and technical exchanges between both organisations and its members.

EET Fuels will host a series of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Stanlow Refinery.

Integrated Global Services (IGS) has been recognised as a major contributor to the successful Ras Tanura Refinery (RTR) 2024 Mega Turnaround and Inspection (T&I) for Aramco.

BASF and International Process Plants (IPP) have entered an agreement to market ammonia, methanol and melamine plants located at BASF’s Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

TotalEnergies and SINOPEC have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to deepen their collaboration, notably in low-carbon energies.

Cerilon GTL ND Inc. has awarded Worley an agreement for the FEED phase of its gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in North Dakota, US.

ClearSign Technologies Corp. has announced the receipt of two purchase orders to complete the engineering of burners for the fitting of two additional process heaters in a California refinery for a total of four burners.