Downstream news

Shell has opened its first service station in Mexico as part of its plans to invest US$1 billion in the country over the next 10 years.

Petrofac has been awarded a US$700 million contract by Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. for its onshore processing facility on Sakhalin Island.

Mammoet has been awarded a heavy lift and transport contract for a petrochemical plant in Sohar, Oman.

The technology enables refiners to convert hydrofluoric acid alkylation units to the safer sulfuric acid alkylation technology.

Petrotechnics’ software has been deployed at an LNG terminal in the Gulf of Mexico to improve operations and risk management.

INEOS Oxide plans to build a 300 kt vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plant at one of its integrated sites.

Facility assessments and restart activities continue at ExxonMobil’s Baytown refinery, with pipelines beginning to transport fuel. Its Beaumont refinery remains shut down.

While renewable energy will grow its share of the energy mix, oil and gas will account for 44% of world energy supply in 2050.

Sulzer’s Chemtech division has been granted a license covering the Total-patented Wash Tank Technology for oil processing.

Arkema has confirmed that a 1.5 mile evacuation zone around its chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, has been lifted.