Downstream news
Rethinking the value chain
Matt Flanagan and Patrick Long, Opportune LLP, USA, explore the importance of integrating crude refining with petrochemicals manufacturing, and its potential to create value in the long term.
Reducing the impact of a shutdown
While unplanned downtime will always impact productivity and profitability in an oil refinery or petrochemical plant, the effects often have implications that reach beyond the financial. Safety is critically important, but so is environmental efficiency.
ICIS: European ethylene capacity threatened by refinery cuts
ICIS reports that at least 6.6 million tpy of Europe’s ethylene production capacity is threatened by oil refineries running at reduced rates or ceasing production.
PGNiG performs first LNG truck loading operation in Lithuania
PGNiG has sold the first two LNG cargoes from the reloading station in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
OPEC+ agrees massive deal to cut oil output
OPEC producers and its allies have agreed a record deal to cut oil output in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
April issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering out now!
The April issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering is now available online!
Picking the right workhorse
Koch-Glitsch evaluates the available tray technologies for pressure distillation towers.
US to fill one third of its crude storage capacity in April
Continued production and collapsing demand means that the US is set to fill one third of its available crude storage in April, according to Rystad Energy.
US leads North American refining industry capacity
GlobalData has reported that the US will drive North America to reach a total refining capacity of 25.8 million bpd in 2024.
Global Energy Show postponed to 2021
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, dmg::events has decided to reschedule the Global Energy Show to 8 – 10 June 2021.