North America downstream news

Motiva Enterprises has executed a long-term supply agreement with Aramco base oil affiliate S-Oil Corp. that will more than double Motiva’s current offer for Group III base oil in North America.

Mammoet-Haisla Joint Venture (J.V.) has completed the pile handing scope for the LNG Canada project through JGC-Fluor Joint Venture in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada.

Aspen Technology Inc. has announced that Shell Catalysts & Technologies is implementing Aspen Schedule Explorer software in multiple plants throughout North America and Europe.

Navitas Midstream Partners LLC has purchased a gas processing plant from Honeywell UOP to extract natural gas liquids (NGLs) from natural gas produced in several counties in the Permian Basin, US.

Inter Pipeline Ltd. has announced that it will receive US$408 million under the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Programme (APIP).

Saulsbury is to design and install a new cryogenic processing facility in the Midland Basin.

The Beaumont refinery in Texas, US, is starting up after a shutdown prompted by severe cold weather.

The terminal has the capacity to store more than 2 million bbl of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

Rystad Energy's VP Oil Markets, Paola Rodriguez-Masiu, has commented on the outages affecting Texas's oil refining sector in the wake of Storm Uri.

IHS Markit currently estimates more than 5.2 million bpd of Gulf Coast refining capacity and 730 000 bpd in PADD 2 has been impacted by the winter weather.