Downstream contract news

EcoCeres have signed an Investment Letter of Intent with the Dongguan Municipal People's Government to establish the first complete SAF supply chain in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Process Consulting Services, Inc. (PCS) has been selected to provide crude and vacuum unit designs for the newly announced America First Refining (AFR) Project in Brownsville, Texas, the first grass-roots refinery built in the US in over 50 years.

INEOS Enterprises has announced that it has agreed to sell it shares in INEOS Calabrian, its ultra-pure sulfur dioxide and derivatives business, to Ecovyst.

Lantern LNG Holding Company, LLC has announced its intention to use Honeywell as the end-to-end LNG technology and automation solutions provider for its planned offshore LNG development located off the coast of Texas in Matagorda Bay, US.

Between the week ending March 20 and the week ending April 24, the US DOE released a total of 17.5 million bbl of crude oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, according to the EIA.

INEOS Acetyls and Sandpiper Chemicals, LLC today announced the formation of a strategic collaboration in support of Sandpiper’s low-carbon methanol production facility in Texas City, Texas, US.

MAIRE has announces that Nextchem, through its subsidiary Conser has been awarded licensing, process design package, and technical services for a new plant to produce Trimellitic Anhydride in China.

Emerson has announced the successful deployment of an AI-driven optimisation solution for Aramco, with the integration of Emerson’s Aspen Hybrid Models™ into Aramco’s existing refinery planning framework.

Guangdong Liquid Sunshine has selected Johnson Matthey as a technology partner for its first commercial scale project – a biomethanol plant planned in Tiandong County, Guangxi, China.

The Pacifico Mexinol project celebrated the beginning of its pre-construction phase by symbolically laying a first stone.