Refining

Pertamina, through its PT Kilang Pertamina Internasional Balikpapan unit, has signed a security cooperation agreement with the TNI and Polri for the East Kalimantan region in Balikpapan, Indonesia.

AFPM Senior Director of Fuels and Vehicle Policy testified during the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s public hearing on the proposed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) proposal, covering years 2023 – 2025.

Babcock & Wilcox has been awarded a contract by Phillips 66 Ltd to design a flue gas pre-treatment technology upstream from a planned carbon dioxide capture system on the Phillips 66 Ltd Humber Refinery.

weavix™ has announced a US$10 million Series A funding round from Koch Disruptive Technologies, the growth and venture arm of Koch Industries.

ExxonMobil has reached an agreement with Bangchak Corp. to sell its interest in Esso Thailand, which includes the Sriracha refinery, select distribution terminals, and a network of Esso-branded retail stations.

The list of references associated with the article entitled 'Moving with the changing tide', which featured in the January 2023 issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering.

Technip Energies has been awarded a large project management consultancy contract by Kuwait Oil Co.

According to the EIA, the Brent price rose significantly in 1H22 but generally declined in the second half of the year.

After increasing 68% from January to June, the energy component of the S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index ended 2022 10% higher than the first trading day of the year.

The companies are exploring collaboration across refining and petrochemical projects in China and Saudi Arabia.

Methods and alternatives such as carbon capture, hydrogen, renewable power, biofuels, energy storage, and electric vehicles will be adopted by oil and gas companies to mitigate their net emissions, says GlobalData.

API, AMEXHI and IOGP have renewed an MoU, strengthening mutual cooperation to help enhance operational performance across North American natural gas and oil operations.

The modernised Fergana oil refinery has increased its production of gasoline by more than 50%.

The project included modernisation of the CDU-VDU-5 crude distillation unit with a production capacity of 3.5 million tpy, and the solvent extraction unit that has a production capacity of 300 000 tpy.

Technip Energies awarded a proprietary equipment contract by Chevron Phillips Chemical and QatarEnergy for the Golden Triangle Polymers ethane cracker.