North America downstream news

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.

The Tube Turns Tool-less closure has been chosen for the Alberta XPress Project.

The facility will centralise the company’s test rigs for hydrodynamic fluid film bearings and reciprocating compressor components.

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.