Refining

Emerson and AspenTech have formed an alliance to deliver digital technologies.

Dangote Refinery returnee graduate engineers have promised an end to fuel scarcity when the refinery begins operations.

LOTOS’ Gdansk refinery is operating at full performance after being temporarily halted due to interruption in its electricity supply.

Iraq’s Ministry of Oil has signed an investment contract with Rania International Co. to build a 70 000 bpd refinery near Kirkuk.

CB&I has been awarded a contract for a crude flexibility project by ADNOC.

Analysis of the planned delayed coking units capacity of refineries has suggested that the Jieyang refinery in China has the highest planned DCU capacity globally.

ADNOC is set to introduce crude processing flexibility at its Ruwais Refinery in a US$3.1 billion investment.

The partnership with Dongming Petrochemical will allow BP to expand retail business in China.

MOL Group has selected Chevron Lummus Global for a master plan study to assist with a long-term strategy to increase its share of non-motor fuel products.

Under this contract renewal, Jacobs will provide mechanical maintenance and turnaround services on the company’s Scotford site in Canada.

CNOOC Orient Petrochemicals Co. Ltd has commissioned a DuPont wet scrubbing system at its oil refinery on Hainan Island, China.

Production at the refinery was halted due to a thirty-minute disruption in power supply from an external station.

The EIA’s latest Annual Energy Outlook forecasts rising US production and relatively flat consumption.

Aspen Technology Inc. has confirmed that it has acquired Apex Optimisation.

Figures released by the EIA show that China overtook the US in annual gross crude imports last year, importing 0.5 million bpd more than the US.