North America downstream news
Absolute Air to build air separation plant in Minnesota
The plant will produce oxygen, nitrogen, and argon for use in customer applications such as metal fabrication, blanketing, purging, combustion, chilling and freezing.
Fulcrum BioEnergy to build waste-to-fuel plant in Indiana
Centerpoint BioFuels Plant will convert solid waste into low-carbon, renewable fuel.
Air Products to construct air separation unit to produce liquid oxygen, nitrogen, and argon
The facility in Minnesota will be built, owned and operated by Air Products.
Speedcast delivers emergency equipment to Texas ethane cracker plant
The plant is set to begin operations in 2020.
Honeywell to provide modular gas processing plant to Cogent Midstream
Modular cryogenic plants recover valuable natural gas liquids from shale gas.
First commissioning LNG cargo departs Cheniere’s Corpus Christi liquefaction facility
The departure marks Texas’s first LNG export.
McDermott awarded EPC contract for CB&I storage tanks by Nan Ya Plastics Corp.
The tanks will form part of Na Ya Plastic's Ethylene Glycol II Expansion Project at Point Comfort, Texas.
President López Obrador announces Mexican National Refining Plan
The refineries of Minatitlán, Salamanca, Tula, Cadereyta, Madero and Salina Cruz will be rehabilitated, and a new one built in Dos Bocas, Tabasco.
US LNG export capacity to more than double by the end of 2019
EIA projects that US LNG export capacity will become the third largest in the world behind Australia and Qatar by the end of 2019.
Matrix Service awarded ionic alkylation unit construction at Chevron refinery
The first ionic alkylation unit in the US will be installed at the Salt Lake City, Utah facility.