North America downstream news

The sale of Mega Lubricants is to John W. Stone Oil Distributor, LLC for US$22.4 million.

The move is motivated by the company’s desire to maximise profit from the plant during the coming year when a vaccine for COVID-19 is being widely deployed.

UOP will upgrade two existing 200 million ft3/d gas processing plants in the Permian Basin.

John Bel Edwards has announced potential investment by ExxonMobil totalling more than US$240 million at the company’s Baton Rouge Refinery.

As part of the transaction, Petroleum Service Corp. will absorb Fryoux's tankerman operations along the US Gulf Coast.

The company's Refining capital budget includes US$521 million of sustaining capital for reliability, safety and environmental projects.

The company has been selected by a global O&G major to be the primary engineering partner to support two of the major's integrated refining and chemicals manufacturing facilities in the US.

Haldor Topsoe’s H2bridge™ and HydroFlex™ technologies will be used to produce renewable bio-hydrogen in Grön Fuels LLC’s renewable diesel and jet fuel facility in Louisiana, US.

The 50/50 JV includes a 1.5 million t ethane cracker, 0.9 million t low-density and linear-low density polyethylene plants, and associated infrastructure near Lake Charles, Louisiana, US.

The consulting firm's index will account for the typical crude run in US West Coast refineries, the cost of compliance with greenhouse gas-reduction regulations, and local refined product prices.