Oil refinery news

According to EIA analysis, planned refinery outages during the 2Q21 are unlikely to cause a significant shortfall in the supply of petroleum products in the US, particularly in transportation fuels including gasoline, jet fuel, and distillate fuel.

SUEZ and ROSCOLE have teamed up to develop a new monitoring solution for desalter operations.

KP Engineering (KPE), a company specialising in designing, executing, and delivering customised EPC solutions for the refining, syngas and hydrogen and renewable fuels industries, has promoted DeLome Fair to Principal Process Engineer.

Axens has acquired Flowvision (Denmark, Odense), an engineering company specialised in emission abatement systems for the reduction of nitrogen oxides in flue gas from industry.

DuPont Clean Technologies has announced successful performance tests for the STRATCO alkylation units at the Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Co. (ZRCC) refinery, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China and the Yangzi Co. (YPC) refinery, Nianjing, Jiangsu, China.

Phillips 66 has awarded EPC provider Worley a FEED contract for its renewable fuels refinery, which will produce 650 million gal./yr of renewable fuel.

Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure Ltd. (Tidewater) will utilise Topsoe’s HydroFlex and H2bridge technologies to produce renewable diesel.

Electrolysers are the first step toward green hydrogen production, according to IDTechEx.

According to Today in Energy, both US imports and exports of several transportation fuels fell in 2020.

After delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Porvoo refinery, Finland, is preparing to execute a major turnaround starting in April 2021.