North America downstream news

Range will provide 15 000 bpd of ethane as feedstock for PTT Global Chemical America’s (PTTGCA) planned ethane cracker along the Ohio River in Belmont County.

API 2350 provides guidance for the safe transfer of petroleum products to storage tanks.

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.