North America downstream news

Fluor has announced that its EPC project for Milliken’s chemical plant expansion in South Carolina is now underway.

GlobalData has reported that North America and Asia will be the frontrunners in terms of global LNG liquefaction and regasification capacity growth.

Reaching 5 million bpd, US hydrocarbon gas liquids production accounted for a quarter of total US petroleum products output in 2018, reports the EIA.

Setting almost 400 modules, Mammoet achieved successful scope completion at Sasol’s ethane cracker and derivatives project at Lake Charles.

Intertek Caleb Brett has opened its new laboratory in St James, Louisiana, for the testing and inspection of crude oil.

Cheniere Corpus Christi Stage III has signed a long-term gas supply agreement with Apache Corp., indexed to global LNG prices.

The second to come online out of seven in its Lake Charles Chemicals Project, Sasol’s unit will produce ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol.

Sentinel Midstream’s subsidiary, Texas GulfLink, has submitted a licence application to MARAD to construct a deepwater crude oil export facility.

KBR and Nexus will collaborate to provide project solutions in the Great Lakes region, with plans for further expansion.

Phillips 66, Square Robot and Veritank have successfully used a robot to carry out an in-service inspection of an aboveground diesel storage tank.