Refining

The US Department of Agriculture has invited Velocys to submit a Phase II Application to obtain a loan guarantee for a biorefinery.

Dr Béla Kelemen has been appointed as President of the European Petroleum Refiners Association.

PDVSA has announced that the Isla refinery continues to recover successfully following an incident on 21 May.

Dangote has announced it has awarded DuPont Clean Technology with contracts for its new oil refinery in Nigeria.

Kirby Corporation has announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase Stewart & Stevenson LLC.

MMEX Resources Corp. has announced it has secured a US$3 million equity agreement, and plans to start a Permian Basin refinery with a 10 000 bpd initial unit.

Grace has announced it is licensing its process technology to Hengli Petrochemical Refinery Co. in Dalian, China.

Suncor Energy has provided an update on the Syncrude Mildred Lake oilsands facility in Canada.

Bidvest and Petredec have announced their plans to develop a new South African LPG import facility.

Baker Hughes and GE have announced they have reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice to complete their proposed transaction.

CB&I has announced it has been awarded a multi-technology contract for a plant in Kazakhstan.

Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) has announced it has won a hydrocarbon processing award for its olefins technology.

According to GlobalData, North Korea’s neighbours are advancing projects across the entire oil and gas chain, undeterred by recent military provocations.

Honeywell has announced it has invested in a cyber security innovation centre in the Asia Pacific region with the support of the Singapore Economic Development Board.

Digitalisation will provide both historic and real-time information that will allow plants to be operated with fewer human resources in the future.