North America downstream news

The Court’s decision paves the way for Meridian to complete engineering, procurement and financing for the Davis project.

Braskem is using Grace’s UNIPOL PP Process Technology and catalyst systems at its new polypropylene production line in La Porte, Texas, US.

The US's only offshore terminal, the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), stopped loading tanker ships on Sunday, while the port of New Orleans closed on Monday.

The total capacity of the three terminals, located in Texas and Louisiana, is 852 000 m3.

The line in La Porte has a production capacity of over 450 kilotons (kt) or 1 billion pounds per year and has the capability to produce a broad range of products, including homopolymer, impact copolymer and random copolymers.

The engineering services will optimise the refinery’s existing process units’ performance and will address operability and maintenance issues.

The company will demolish six older buildings and one 70-year old animal-rendering plant currently at the site, and renovate the remaining three buildings to create a best-in-class maintenance, office and driver facility.

Air Liquide will provide additional gaseous oxygen, nitrogen and syngas and invest more than US$160 million.

The expansion of the Black River Processing Plant adds an incremental designed inlet capacity of 200 million ft3 of natural gas per day to the previously existing designed inlet capacity of 260 million ft3 of natural gas per day.

The production units at the Port Arthur refinery were shut as a result of Hurricane Laura.