Refining

Advocates celebrate the 11 year anniversary of America’s most successful biofuels programme, the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Jim Szczurek, Product Line Manager, Honeywell UOP, investigates wastewater treatment solutions for refinery operations.

Innovation Metals Corp. has announced the successful pilot scale separation of nickel and cobalt from laterite ores using the proprietary low cost RapidSX Process.

Over the next 2 - 3 years, Essar Oil will invest Rs.1200 crore to upgrade the naphtha hydrotreater (NHT), isomerisation unit and continuous catalytic reformer (CCR) units.

Amarinth has secured an order worth €500 000 from Siirtec Nigi for API 610 OH2 pumps for the ADCO Al Dabb’iya Facilities Development Phase III project.

Results in the second quarter of 2016 benefited from improved performance in retail and logistics, as well as lower operating and overhead expenses.

Increases in natural gas plant liquids will account for a significant share of total increases in petroleum and other liquid fuels production over 2015 - 2040.

The contracts, worth a total value of approximately CAN$67.1 million, include work at major refineries in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Edinburgh Research and Innovation have announced the new AIMday for sensor signal processing and imaging in industry.

Hoover Container Solutions, Ferguson Group and CHEP Catalyst & Chemical Containers are merging to form Hoover Ferguson Group (HFG).

Technip has been recertified to the EDGE standard for gender equality in the workplace in Brazil, France and Italy.

Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. announced net income attributable to partners for the six months ended 30 June 2016 of US$347 million.

Quantum continues its Bakken refinery development projects with ongoing permitting efforts in North Dakota and an increased emphasis on a proposed project in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Albemarle Corporation has exceeded its second quarter 2016 expectations and has raised its guidance.

The EIA has released a report on ‘this week’ in petroleum focusing on Russian economic activity and oil revenue.