Refining

Magellan and Enterprise have teamed up with Intercontinental Exchange for a new Houston crude oil futures contract.

Lukoil recently held a commissioning ceremony for the PENEX isomerisation unit at the Nizhny Novgorod refinery in Russia.

Motiva Enterprises has executed a long-term supply agreement with Aramco base oil affiliate S-Oil Corp. that will more than double Motiva’s current offer for Group III base oil in North America.

Mammoet-Haisla Joint Venture (J.V.) has completed the pile handing scope for the LNG Canada project through JGC-Fluor Joint Venture in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada.

Worley has secured a services contract with Parkland Refining (B.C.) Ltd for its strategic projects at the Burnaby refinery in British Columbia, Canada.

Covenant Energy chooses Haldor Topsoe’s solutions to produce renewable diesel with low carbon footprint.

Axens and Sulzer Chemtech (GTC Technology) have formed an alliance to license an advanced process for fluid catalytic cracking naphtha processing.

In its June ‘Short-Term Energy Outlook’ (STEO), the EIA forecasts that rising global production of petroleum and other liquid fuels will limit price increases for global crude oil benchmarks.

DuPont has announced the successful startup of the STRATCO alkylation units at the Zhongke Refinery and Petrochemical Co. LTC refinery in Zhejiang, China and the Sinopec Shanghai Company (SPC) refinery in Jinshan, Shanghai, China.

Chevron Marine Lubricants will boost its presence in African ports after extending its joint venture with Akwa Group.

JERA Co. Inc. has received notice of acceptance of its grant application to conduct a feasibility study on CO2 capture and methanation in the US.

Sapiem has been awarded a new contract by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) for the Shah Gas plant in the UAE.

The EIA reports that production of crude oil and natural gas in New Mexico reached new record in March 2021.

The API has submitted comments to the US SEC’s Request for Information on the potential regulation of climate change disclosures.

McDermott International Ltd has received two separate engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract awards from Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.