Refining

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.

For the week of Thanksgiving 2020, estimated consumption of major transportation fuels was 11% lower than during Thanksgiving week 2019, according to the EIA.

API has issued a statement confirming that it stands ready to work with the Biden administration on energy and climate policy.

Sinopec Corp’s Qilu refinery has resumed operations after a more than three-month overhaul.