Refining

A report from ESAI Energy concludes that global investment in ethane crackers and other olefin units will lead to overcapacity and inter-fuel competition.

Honeywell UOP’s R-364 catalyst is being used at Fuji Oil’s Sodegaura refinery in Japan to produce more aromatics from naphtha feedstock.

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL) has chosen Honeywell UOP’s Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) technology to supply high-quality hydrogen at five of its refineries.

Saipem has been awarded contracts worth approximately US$800 million in total.

GlobalData believes that Mexico’s new government offers nothing new with its refining optimisation strategy.

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd has chosen a Honeywell UOP pressure swing adsorption technology to supply high-quality hydrogen at five of its refineries.

SNC-Lavalin has signed a contract with Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co. for work at the Al Zour Refinery in Kuwait.

A refinery in Kuwait has selected DuPont technologies as part of its strategy to reduce sulfur emissions.

Petron Corp. will expand and upgrade its Limay refinery in the Philippines with technologies from Honeywell UOP.

Holly Energy Partners has engaged AECOM to perform a feasibility study on a potential refined product pipeline in the Permian Basin.

Athlon will become part of the Halliburton Multi-Chem business line.

BASF has introduced Fourte FCC catalyst for refiners targeting an increase to their gasoline pool octane.

Orpic aims to meet plastic demand with its Liwa Plastics Industries Complex project, which will include a refinery, aromatics plant, steam cracker and downstream polypropylene and polyethylene plants.

Saudi Aramco and SABIC have awarded a contract to KBR for the development of part of a crude-oil-to-chemicals complex.

Praxair has started up two new air separation plants to supply China National Offshore Oil Corp.’s petrochemical park.