Downstream news

WPC Energy, the World Forum for Energy Transformation, has announced the appointment of Burcu Canci Gunal as Director General (CEO), effective 1 January 2025.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that US ethane production increased steadily over the last decade and reached a record of 3 million bpd in May 2024.

The AFPM visited Flint Hills Resources’ Pine Bend refinery in Minnesota, US, which demonstrates how renewable energy and traditional energy can work together.

Technip Energies and Enerkem have formalised their collaboration to advance waste-to-sustainable fuels and circular chemicals technology.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has announced the publication of Addendum 1 to API RP 2001, 10th Edition, ‘Fire Protection in Refineries.’

BASF is strengthening its styrene value chain at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany by expanding the production capacity of Neopor® by 50 000 tpy.

Integrated Global Services Inc. (IGS) has announced the acquisition of the engineered coatings and materials business of Liquidmetal Industrial Solutions.

ProSep has announced a new contract for testing with a Poland-based multinational oil refiner.

Luis Hoffmann and Emmanuelle Chauveau, Sulzer Chemtech, join us to discuss their article that featured in the October 2024 issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering, titled ‘The next step in dissolution recycling’.

Neste and Braskem announce agreement on supply of renewable and recycled feedstocks for polymers and chemicals production.