Downstream news

The plant in Saudi Arabia uses the Shell OMEGA process, which is based on the catalytic conversion of both ethylene to ethylene oxide and ethylene oxide to ethylene glycol.

Unusually harsh weather for the US southern states has knocked out more than 3 million bpd of refining capacity in the US Gulf, according to Reuters calculations.

Fulcrum BioEnergy and Essar have announced plans for a waste-to-fuel plant in the North West of England, with Stanlow Terminals Ltd providing product storage and logistics solutions for the project.

A grassroots refinery with 9 million tpy capacity is to be set up at Nagapattinam by a joint venture between IndianOil and Chennai Petroleum Corp. Ltd.

Subject to a final investment decision, upon operation the biorefinery will produce 200 000 tpy of renewable diesel from advanced bio-feedstocks.

Javelina is a treating and fractionation plant that extracts olefins, hydrogen, and NGLs from the gas streams produced by local refineries.

TechnipFMC has split into two independent companies: TechnipFMC and Technip Energies.

As much as 743 000 bpd of oil-processing capacity has been idled, nearly 22% of Japan’s roughly 3.4 million bpd capacity.

In December 2020 JGC Corp. was awarded the FEED contract for a gas separation plant construction project being planned by KazMunayGas and its subsidiary, KLPE.

The gas cleaning systems were ordered by Compañía Española de Petróleos SA for their refineries in La Rabida and San Roque.