Downstream contract news

According to EIA analysis, planned refinery outages during the 2Q21 are unlikely to cause a significant shortfall in the supply of petroleum products in the US, particularly in transportation fuels including gasoline, jet fuel, and distillate fuel.

Neptune Energy has welcomed the announcement by the operator, Eni, that production has started from its Merakes development, located in the East Sepinggan block, offshore Indonesia.

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. subsidiaries NextChem and MET Development have signed an MOU with MC TAIF JSC (TAIF) to co-develop a new bio-degradable polymer plant in the Republic of Tatarstan (Russian Federation).

Nacero has selected Topsoe’s TIGAS™ technology for its multi-billion US$ natural gas-to-gasoline facility in Penwell, Texas, to reduce the lifecycle carbon footprint of gasoline production.

Maire Tecnimont subsidiary NextChem has been awarded a contract by Total Corbion PLA to carry out a front-end engineering design for their 100 000 tpy poly lactic acid (PLA) plant in Grandpuits, France.

Siemens Energy has been selected to supply two low-emission compression trains for Phase I of the Gazli underground gas storage (UGS) project in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan.

Chevron and Toyota have formed a strategic alliance to develop commercially viable, large-scale businesses in hydrogen, with the goal to advance a functional, thriving global hydrogen economy.

SUEZ and ROSCOLE have teamed up to develop a new monitoring solution for desalter operations.

INEOS has announced that its manufacturing sites in Texas and California have been awarded ISCC PLUS certification from International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC).

KP Engineering (KPE), a company specialising in designing, executing, and delivering customised EPC solutions for the refining, syngas and hydrogen and renewable fuels industries, has promoted DeLome Fair to Principal Process Engineer.