Refining

Energy Recovery has announced it has signed a partnership with Düchting Pumpen in order to bolster a new financial offering in desalination.

Rosneft has agreed to sell its ordinary shares in Saras SpA to institutional investors.

Flint Hills Resources has announced it is going to make a major investment at the Fairmont ethanol plant in Nebraska.

The Port of Antwerp has announced it has finished 2016 with definite growth in total freight volume of 2.7%.

LiqTech has announced it has received a US$120 000 order for a water treatment system for flue gas condensate.

Westwood Professional Services has announced its acquisition of the San Antonio-based engineering firm Coursen-Koehler.

Shell has been selected as the exclusive supplier of Rolls-Royce motor cars genuine engine oil.

TechnipFMC has announced the commencement of its operations as a combined company after completing the merger of FMC Technologies and Technip.

Neste Jacobs has announced it has optimised the Borealis PE2 plant's distillation section with the addition of NAPCON Controller.

Cavitation Technologies has announced that its strategic partner Desmet Ballesta has received a purchase order for a Nano Reactor system to be implemented in Poland.

SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a five-year extension to its GES+ contract with Saudi Aramco.

Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) hub's gasoil stocks have marked their third weekly increase.

FluidOil Limited has announced its new heavy oil upgrading technology test programme.

David Paradis has been appointed as President of the Weir Flow Control Division, effective 23 January 2017.

The US EIA has predicted that crude oil prices are to increase slightly through 2017 and 2018.