Refining

W. R. Grace & Co. has completed a US$416 million acquisition of the Polyolefin Catalysts business of Albemarle Corp.

Through a new feedstock supply and processing agreement with Platon Gas Oil Ghana, Petrogress is expanding its downstream presence in Ghana.

ADNOC has signed two new three-year deals for the sale of up to 1.5 million tpy of naphtha as part of its 2030 smart growth strategy.

Petroecuador has selected Siemens’ industrial gas turbine for power generation at its Shushufindi refinery.

Exion Systems has awarded its first two contracts to build and install the Exion LT system.

The companies have announced the formation of two new joint ventures for the Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development project in Malaysia.

The company has delivered two heavy and oversized columns to Gazprom Neft Moscow Refinery for the construction of its new combined facility.

One project is to introduce crude oil processing flexibility and the other is to recover power and water, both at the ADNOC-owned Ruwais oil refinery.

Chevron Lummus Global has announced the start-up of Saudi Aramco’s Luberef II Yanbu Refinery Expansion for the production of premium base oils.

According to a GlobalData report, merger and acquisition deals in the downstream sector totalled $21.1 billion in 2H17, down from $26.2 billion in 1H17.

Pemex is seeking bids for the rehabilitation of the H-Oil plant in the Miguel Hidalgo Refinery.

Seven firms have submitted bids to buy a majority stake in Zambia's Indeni Petroleum Refinery.

TechnipFMC has confirmed that a hydrogen plant utilising its technology is now in full operation.

The EPA has proposed amendments to the Petroleum Refinery Sector Risk and Technology Review and the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS).

Petrofac will undertake an engineering, procurement and construction project for Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd's sulfur recovery unit in Visakhapatnam.