Refining

MMEX Resources Corp. has acquired 126 acres for its Pecos Country refinery project.

The API has reacted to the US Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit’s decision not to uphold the EPA’s authority to exercise its waiver to lower the RFS.

The API has praised joint calls from the House, Senate and administration for pro-growth tax reform.

Linde Engineering North America’s Port of Catoosa fabrication facility has operated four years without a recordable safety incident or injury.

Johnson Controls has announced Williams Fire & Hazard Control (WF&HC) will host the third annual EMEA XTREME Industrial Fire & Hazard Training School later in 2017.

The API reports that total petroleum deliveries climbed 2.6% from June 2016.

SPX FLOW has signed an agreement to form a joint venture (JV) with the WTE Wajdi Group dedicated to the service of all rotating and static equipment for oil and gas, industrial and power customers in Iraq.

The company reported sequential order growth of 20% and sales growth of 17% over 1Q17.

Essar Projects India Ltd has announced the successful testing and commissioning of the Coke Drum Structure Package for Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd’s Kochi Refinery.

SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a FEED conversion to EPC contract by Brahms Oil Refineries.

Cielo has announced it is advancing in its construction of a garbage-derived feedstocks to renewable diesel refinery.

The US EIA has announced that US weekly ethanol production averaged 1.02 million bpd through the first six months of 2017.

Quanta Services Inc. has completed the acquisition of Stronghold, a specialised solutions provider to the downstream and midstream energy markets.

CGG GeoSoftware has donated a full suite of its software technologies to the Petroleum Learning Centre.

Cyber crime costs the global economy more than US$400 billion per year, according to estimates by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.