Downstream news
Neste launches new product
Neste RE is a 100% renewable and recycled raw material for plastics and chemicals production.
Refining capacity boom set to keep utilisation low
As global oil demand weakens, planned refinery additions will far exceed closures towards 2025, reports Rystad Energy.
Hengli selects Aspen technology for plant digitalisation
Aspen DMC3 software will be used to accelerate digitalisation at Hengli's integrated refining and chemical plant in Dalian, China.
API and NABTU urge Senate to vote on National Apprenticeship Act
The American Petroleum Institute (API) and North America’s Building Trades Unions have urged the Senate to act on the National Apprenticeship Act, which was recently passed by the House.
Maire Tecnimont subsidiary to engineer coking furnaces for Mexico refinery
KT – Kinetics Technology S.p.A. will engineer three large-scale coking furnaces for a new oil refinery in Mexico.
How to quickly construct an ethylene glycol plant
Worley outlines how to construct an award-winning ethylene glycol plant in less than two years.
The importance of instrumentation
Andrew Smith, Emerson, USA, demonstrates why effective treatment of wastewater in refineries and chemical plants depends on the right liquid analytical instrumentation.
TÜV SÜD NEL secures UK government funding
TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory will build the UK’s first mobile facility for testing dispensed quantity at hydrogen refuelling stations.
GIIGNL appoints new President
Jean Abiteboul has been announced as the new President of the International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers (GIIGNL).
Total to suspend operations at Donges refinery
Union sources said the stoppage would take effect on Monday and could last for four months.