North America downstream news

NOVA Chemicals has said the sale of its expandable styrenics business to Alpek will allow it to focus on its olefin and polyethylene business.

ARLANXEO's olefins business produces butadiene and raffinate, and is located at the Bio-Industrial Park Sarnia in Ontario, Canada.

Koch Separation Solutions has been working with ADM on a variety of applications, many of which aim to successfully meet tighter discharge limits and/or recover water affecting their production plants.

CleanBay Renewables Inc. has announced the selection of Evoqua Water Technologies LLC as a key partner for its Westover, Maryland bio-refinery.

Ovintiv Inc. has announced the start-up of the Pipestone Processing Facility (PPF), a natural gas processing and liquids stabilisation plant supporting the Montney development.

Canada-based oil refinery operator Irving Oil has terminated an agreement for the purchase of North Atlantic Refinery Ltd.

Shell's petrochemical complex near Pittsburgh remains on track to enter service in the early 2020s, according to the company.

NextDecade is exploring options to enable Rio Grande LNG to achieve carbon neutrality.

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.