Refining

A major turnaround at Neste’s Porvoo refinery in Finland is now successfully completed and production has started at the refinery.

Vopak has been awarded by Huizhou QuanMei Petrochemical Terminal Co. Ltd. a contract for storage and services of a liquid products terminal in China.

Técnicas Reunidas has been awarded by Gazprom Neft a US$240 million contract for the development of a modern unit for treating a residual oil at Moscow Refinery.

Limetree Bay Energy has announced that it is suspending its plans to restart its refinery indefinitely, due to severe financial constraints.

Maire Tecnimont Group and Siemens have teamed up to provide new digital predictive maintenance services.

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.