Oil refinery news

Sulzur looks at how weld overlay for coker drums can be carried out effectively, using finite element analysis.

Aramco Trading’s new Fujairah office will handle all gasoline and fuel oil storage and blending activities, as part of a push into new markets.

INVISTA and Koch-Glitsch will offer their ExoS solvent extraction technology to refineries, pledging to preserve octane and reduce the hydrotreater load.

Clariant has released CATOFIN 311, a propane dehydrogenation catalyst which the company says has greater selectivity and a longer lifetime.

Shell has sold its Martinez Refinery in California to PBF Energy.

Petrobras has signed a letter of intent with SBM Offshore for the lease and operation of the FPSO Mero 2 to be deployed in the Mero field offshore Brazil.

Wood has been awarded a FEED contract for DRPIC’s proposed onshore petrochemicals facility in southern Oman.

GlobalData analyses Pemex’s new upstream and downstream strategies, finding that despite a short term boost the company will continue to be challenged in the long run.

The President of Mexico hailed the refinery construction project in Dos Bocas as an act of justice for the state of Tabasco and the south-east of Mexico.

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