Refining

Wood has secured a contract with Sinopec to provide EPC services to expand its refinery development in the Hainan Free Trade Zone in China.

AFPM President and CEO Chet Thompson has released a statement on the rioting that took place at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

The region had a refining capacity of 11.5 million bpd under both planned and unplanned maintenance in 2020, according to GlobalData.

A consortium including Hyundai Engineering Co Ltd and KBR Inc has expressed interest in a contract to renovate Ecuador’s 110 000 bpd Esmeraldas refinery.

The contract is for setting up a dual feed cracker unit and fluidised catalytic cracking for the Rajasthan Refinery Project in Barmer, Rajasthan, India.

Javelina is a treating and fractionation plant located in Corpus Christi, Texas, US.

Specialty Welding and Turnarounds is a provider of specialty welding and other highly technical services to the oil and gas refinery, biodiesel, petrochemical, and industrial markets.

The first cargo of crude oil from the Oryx Concession in Chad arrived in Taiwan at the Dalin Refinery earlier this month.

Production of Euro-6 diesel fuel at the TANECO Oil Refining Complex will increase by 3.6 million tpy.

The agreement is for the supply of between 2000 and 4000 bpd from the Ohaji South Field in Nigeria.

The move is motivated by the company’s desire to maximise profit from the plant during the coming year when a vaccine for COVID-19 is being widely deployed.

The company will focus on enhancing the resilience and competitiveness of the Sines industrial site.

All Axens’ units of the Egyptian Refining Co. (ERC) refinery project are now successfully operating and reaching full production.

Neste has said that it has successfully processed 400 t of liquefied plastic waste at its refinery in Finland this autumn.

EnerMech has appointed Paul Cockerill as its Regional Director for the Middle East and Caspian as it seeks to further grow its upstream, downstream and petrochemical sectors in 2021.