Refining

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.

The company will supply condition-based monitoring services to an oil refinery in Texas, US.

Rotork has received a number of orders for the Karbala Refinery, which is currently under construction.

Petro-Canada Lubricants has become an official global partner of Liverpool Football Club.

EnerMech has acquired the UK valves business of Denholm Valvecare.

Boroflex is designed to optimise refiners’ bottoms upgrading and distillate yields.

IndianOil has commissioned a new unit at its Mathura Refinery, which will use technology developed by its R&D centre to upgrade fuel quality.

Qantas Airlines has operated a 13 000 km flight from Los Angeles, US, to Melbourne, Australia, using Honeywell Green Jet Fuel.

UkrGasVydobuvannya has begun using one of Honeywell UOP’s hydrotreating catalysts to produce ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel at the Shebelinsky refinery in Ukraine.