Refining

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India was also aiming to raise the share of natural gas in its energy-consumption mix by up to four times.

The companies aim to create AI solutions that enable more connected, sustainable and data-driven operations for heavy-asset, infrastructure and industrial clients.

Frames has announced the successful start-up of a LAMINOL sulfur removal and recovery unit for a refinery in Antwerp, Belgium.

The company has invested approximately €21 million in order to increase the Petrobrazi refinery's bio-blending capacity.

The partnership will guide and support oil and gas companies in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and Italy in their digitisation endeavors.

The joint venture will work with Lummus’ existing customers and potential customers to implement digital analysis and operative solutions to their refining, petrochemical and gas processing assets.

The contract was awarded by Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China's Nanshan Group.

GlobalData reports that global refinery maintenance activities are gradually getting back on track.

Renewable raw materials are being converted into Swedish Environmental Class 1 diesel at Preem’s refinery in Lysekil.

China’s private refiner Xinhai Group expects to more than double its crude oil refining capacity by the end of 2021.

Permanent refining capacity closures expected for 2020 – 2021 have risen to about 1.7 million bpd, the IEA has said in its monthly report.

Shell will halve crude processing capacity and cut jobs at its Pulau Bukom oil refinery in Singapore.

As of 30 October, US refinery runs were 14 million bpd, or about 13% lower than the average for this time of year, according to the EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report.

Demand destruction wrought by the impacts of COVID-19 is precipitating rapid rationalisation in the refining sector, reports IHS Markit.

Repsol has selected Axens Vegan® technology for its first production plant for advanced biofuels in Spain at its Cartagena refinery.