North America downstream news

The company to planning to expand the biorefinery's capacity by 250 million gallons to 340 million gal./yr.

Marathon Petroleum Corp. has applied for permits to convert its Martinez, California, refinery to a renewable diesel facility.

Third Coast Midstream has sold AMID Crude Oil Storage to Hartree Partners.

The joint venture will operate under the name Louisiana Integrated PolyEthylene JV LLC.

The agreement includes Bechtel initiating a detailed review of the scope and design of the Goldboro LNG Facility and developing a comprehensive EPCC execution plan by 31 March 2021.

In 1H20, the US exported 5.4 million bpd of petroleum products, a slight increase of 48 000 bpd (1%) from 1H19.

GTT will work with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the US Navy to develop a solution to upgrade the existing tanks at the facility to double wall containment.

The first connection provides shippers access from the Harvest Ingleside Pipeline to Moda Midstream LLC’s Ingleside Energy Center located in Ingleside, Texas, while the second is a bi-direction connection between the Harvest Ingleside Pipeline and Moda Midstream’s Taft Terminal located in Taft, Texas.

Range will provide 15 000 bpd of ethane as feedstock for PTT Global Chemical America’s (PTTGCA) planned ethane cracker along the Ohio River in Belmont County.

API 2350 provides guidance for the safe transfer of petroleum products to storage tanks.