Downstream news

The new six-month delay to the Golden Pass LNG Terminal LLC planned start-up will remove a fair amount of new supply from the market in a period of intense growth, shifting the surge from 2026 to 2027, according to analysis from Wood Mackenzie.

MAIRE has announced that NEXTCHEM has been awarded a feasibility study along with PT Tripatra Engineers and Constructors for a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project located in Sei Mangkei, Indonesia.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that crude oil imports from Canada have become increasingly important to US oil refineries, now making up most US imports.

A business aviation coalition has called on the Biden administration to follow the approach the government uses for existing biofuel programmes when it develops rules to quantify emissions from various feedstocks for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

NEXTCHEM, through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has signed a binding term sheet with Sarlux S.r.l. to act as engineering services and technology provider for the implementation of a pilot SAF plant in Italy.

Crowley has accepted delivery of the LNG bunker barge, Progress, the largest US Jones Act-compliant vessel of its kind, after construction was completed at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, US.

Fortescue and COSCO SHIPPING have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together on decarbonising shipping.

Gunvor Group (Gunvor) will join VARO Energy (VARO) in building a large-scale SAF manufacturing facility at the Gunvor Energy Rotterdam site (the Netherlands) through a proposed joint venture (JV).

This partnership aims to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline and contextualise data management and asset performance across the oil and gas, energy, petrochemicals, and manufacturing industries.

Clariant, a sustainability focused specialty chemical company, and OMV have announced their intended collaboration for the supply of ethylene with a lower carbon footprint.