Refining

The US EIA reports that operable atmospheric crude oil distillation capacity, its primary measure of refinery capacity in the US, increased by 2%, or 324 000 bpd, in 2023.

MAIRE has announced that Kinetics Technology (KT) has been awarded an EPC project by HOLBORN Europa Raffinerie GmbH (HOLBORN) to develop an hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) complex inside HOLBORN’s refinery in Hamburg, Germany.

A number of petitions have been filed challenging the US Environmental Protection Agency’s light-and medium-duty vehicle emissions standards for model years 2027 - 2032.

Yokogawa’s visual MESA greenhouse gas emissions management (VM-GEM) successfully met verification criteria for comprehensibility, reliability, transparency, relevance and representativeness of the methods and data used.

TotalEnergies and Air Products have signed a 15-year agreement for the supply of 70 000 tpy of green hydrogen in Europe starting in 2030.

Element Fuels Holdings, LLC, has completed site preparation and pre-construction on a new hydrogen-powered refinery and combined-cycle power plant within the Port of Brownsville, Texas, US.

The major turnaround with scheduled maintenance of Neste’s Porvoo refinery in Finland has now been successfully completed.

International energy and infrastructure conglomerate, Sahara Group, has announced a series of strategic appointments aimed at advancing the expansion of the group’s downstream business in Africa.

Startup of the world’s first stand-alone alkylation complex has been completed at Next Wave Energy's site in Pasadena, Texas, US.

Chart Industries has been chosen to supply its Howden hydrogen compression solutions to support Repsol’s €657 million expansion of its Sines industrial complex in Portugal.

Verbio has started construction to convert its South Bend ethanol plant into the second integrated biorefinery plant in North America.

The potential for a stronger hurricane season suggests heightened risk for weather-related production outages in the US oil and natural gas industry.

Maire has announced that Kinetics Technology (the subsidiary part of the Integrated E&C Solutions Business Units operating in support of the Sustainable Technology Solutions Business Unit) has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of APS Evolution S.r.l, parent company controlling APS Designing Energy S.r.l. and KTI Poland S.A.

AMETEK Land has provided a large US ethylene producer with 28 thermal imagers to provide continuous temperature measurements for optimum process control in its four cracking furnaces.

MAIRE has announced that NEXTCHEM has finalised the acquisition of 100% of GasConTec GmbH, a company specialised in technology development and process engineering.