Refining

Shell Catalysts & Technologies (SC&T) has successfully commercialised OparisNext, its latest generation catalyst, at Ningbo Zhongjin PetroChemical Co. Ltd.

Imperial is moving forward with plans to construct a world-class renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

BASF is building a new pilot plant centre at its Ludwigshafen site, Germany, to strengthen its global catalyst development and help customers to bring new products faster to the market.

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) has announced the signing of framework agreements for concept and front-end engineering design (FEED) services for major projects across its full value chain

Savage’s Mossville facility will provide a critical link in the supply chains of Lake Charles area refineries, chemical plants and other businesses.

Midwest Cooling Tower Services has announced that it has acquired Tower Performance Inc.

Toyo Engineering Corp. has been awarded a contract for a project to construct a polypropylene plant from Prime Polymer Co. Ltd.

W. R. Grace & Co., an independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, has licensed its UNIPOL PP Process Technology to GAIL (India) Ltd.

The API has published a new edition of Standard 1164, ‘Pipeline Control Systems Cybersecurity’, underscoring the natural gas and oil industry’s ongoing commitment to protecting critical infrastructure.

AFPM recently sat down with representatives from three companies with pipeline operations to hear how they are working with their communities, other operators and government agencies to continually advance pipeline safety.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd (Woodside) and BHP Group (BHP) have entered into a merger commitment deed to combine their respective oil and gas portfolios by an all-stock merger.

According to GlobalData, China is expected to register the highest refinery hydrotreater capacity additions in Asia between 2021 and 2025, contributing about 50% of the total capacity additions by 2025.

Woodside is in discussions with BHP Petroleum regarding a potential merger involving its entire petroleum business.

Haldor Topsoe increases prices for sulfuric acid catalysts with €0.25/L.

Lummus Technology has announced the start-up of its CDAlky alkylation unit at Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co. Ltd's (ZPC) refinery in Zhejiang Province, China.