Oil refinery news

KBR, Inc. has received a contract from SAPREF for its fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) regenerator project at Durban, South Africa.

Maire Tecnimont Group has expanded its petrochemical business in India with a new US$450 million contract by IOCL.

Neste’s renewable fuel oil has reduced greenhouse gas emissions from Lumene’s manufacturing process.

IDTechEx discusses its new report analysing the technical and commercial factors that could be key to the long-term success of carbon capture technology.

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.