North America downstream news

The API has said it supports the US EPA's modification of methane rules.

Demand for motor gasoline increased in May as many US states began to relax stay-at-home orders, but demand for jet fuel continued to decline because of reduced commercial air travel.

JET Infrastructure, owner and operator of jet fuel pipelines and terminals supplying major hub airports and urban growth centres across the US, has announced the addition of Graeme Burnett to its Advisory Board.

Upon completion the reconfigured San Francisco refinery in Rodeo, California, US, would produce 680 million gallons annually of renewable diesel, renewable gasoline, and sustainable jet fuel.

30 BrandSafway refinery and petrochemical plant site teams have received Contractor Safety Achievement Awards from the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers association.

Tarsco designed and constructed the refrigerated LPG tanks for an unnamed midstream company in south Texas.

ExxonMobil is to purchase 2.5 million bbl of renewable diesel per year for five years from Global Clean Energy Holdings.

The Cameron LNG project in Louisiana, US, includes three liquefaction trains with a projected export of 12 million tpy of LNG, or approximately 1.7 billion ft3/d.

Shell Catalysts & Technologies has completed the expansion of its Port Allen, Louisiana plant in the US, doubling its capacity to produce precipitated alumina powder.

The 85 000 bpd naphtha hydrotreater at BP's refinery in Whiting, Indiana, US, took three years to build.