Downstream news

The Carlyle Group has agreed to increase its shareholding in Varo Energy, which owns the Cressier refinery in Switzerland.

The partnership will aim to advance the understanding of catalyst properties and their performance, while Clariant will also sponsor and collaborate in fundamental chemical research projects with the university.

Chart Industries Inc. has announced that it has joined 10 other like-minded companies in launching Hydrogen Forward to advance hydrogen development in the US.

The transaction is expected to close in 2Q21 subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

The two companies will co-operate on strategic projects in Africa to provide and finance centrifugal pumps and associated equipment on attractive financing terms.

The project consists of a supplying a replacement burner for a single burner process heater incorporating the ClearSign Core NOX reduction technology.

Ryan Lerud and Hans Buytaert, Guided Wave, Inc., explain how NIR spectroscopy can be used to optimise individual product streams and assess product purity.

The scope of the first contract entails the installation of an FCC gasoline hydrotreating unit, while the other contract refers to the installation of an LPG mercaptan oxidation unit and an amine treatment and LPG pretreatment unit.

The 300 million ft3/d capacity ANOH gas processing plant, located on OML 53 in Imo State, is being built by the ANOH Gas Processing Co.

Projected to start up in 2025, Numaligarh Refinery's plant in Assam, India, will employ Chevron Lummus Global's LC-FINING technology with an integrated VGO hydrotreater to upgrade vacuum residue and clarified oil from existing and new units.