Refining

Elliott Group has announced that Takanobu Miyaki has been appointed CEO, and Shane Reph as COO.

hte has been awarded the supply of a high throughput unit as the result of a tender floated by AIST, and will commission and install the unit at AIST’s research centre in Japan.

GCMD was set up to help drive decarbonisation of the maritime industry and bp is pleased to be working with the organisation to help further this aim.

Around 110 000 tpy of fossil-based ingredients will be substituted with renewable carbon sources using BASF’s certified biomass balance approach. The measure will ramp up quickly and avoid around 200 000 t of CO2 emissions in total.

Petroperú, a hydrocarbon producer, refiner and distributor in Peru, has implemented Honeywell Forge Workforce Competency solutions to train its industrial workforce for safer and more efficient operations.

The EU Fund announced a grant decision of €88 million to Neste’s clean hydrogen project in Porvoo, Finland.

In response to the Biden Administration’s recent announcement of a release of crude oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) has issued the following statement:

The agreement, which was signed in October 2021, has now been approved by regulatory authorities.

MCO-I has secured a contract to deliver compressor train equipment for Chevron Phillips Chemicals' new propylene unit in Texas.

ClearSign Technologies has received an initial engineering order from a large independent national refiner as the first phase of a project to retrofit two process heaters in one of the company's Californian refineries.

Neste is conducting a feasibility study to examine investing in capacity for processing liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland, where the company are working on commercialising the chemical recycling of waste plastic.

SPEC Energy DMCC will use a range of Honeywell UOP process technologies at its refinery to convert low-value vacuum gas oil and vacuum residue into high-value products such as gasoline and alkylate.

Amarinth has delivered bespoke and compact API 610 vertical in-line pumps to be used at SABIC's petrochemical refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

Groupe ADP, GMR Airports, Airbus, Axens and Safran have signed a MoU to conduct a joint study on Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) and their potential in India.

The American Petroleum Institute has awarded its Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement to Gary R. Heminger, former chairman and CEO of Marathon Petroleum Corp.