Refining

UOP’s cloud-based offering helps to increase plant utilisation and performance, and avoid production interruptions.

The two regions with the largest gasoline supply and demand imbalances are the East Coast (581 000 bpd of imports in 2015) and the Gulf Coast (551 000 bpd of exports in 2015).

The assets to be acquired by Holly Energy include the newly constructed crude, fluid catalytic cracking and polymerisation units at HollyFrontier's Woods Cross refinery.

91% of companies surveyed by the IET agreed that more employers need to provide work experience for those in education or training.

Honeywell UOP’s Callidus Technologies has inaugurated a new facility for the testing of gas combustion flares at its manufacturing facility in Beggs, Oklahoma.

Velocity Midstream & CVR Refining have announced definitive agreements related to the construction of a crude oil pipeline from the SCOOP play in Central Oklahoma to CVR's Wynnewood refinery.

Emirates National Oil Company has announced Technip as the main EPC contractor for its Jebel Ali refinery expansion project.

Total petroleum deliveries in August moved up by 1.6% from August 2015 to average 20.1 million bpd.

Shell has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its A/S Dansk Shell refining business in Denmark.

Linde Malaysia Sdn Bhd has established a joint venture company with Petronas Gas Berhad to build an industrial air gas facility at Malaysia’s largest integrated petroleum complex.

A structured online resource, which combines tools, guidance and support, has been launched by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

American Power Group Inc. has entered into remote flare capture and recovery and NGLs off-take agreements.

Quadrise Fuels has extended two contracts with AkzoNobel for the continued exclusive joint development of emulsion fuels.

Global energy investment in 2015 amounted to US$1.8 trillion, down 8% (in real terms) from 2014, mainly due to a sharp fall in upstream oil and gas investment.

A recent survey of manufacturing executives indicated that many respondents (67%) would invest in data analytics, even as they pare back spending in other areas.