Oil refinery news

International regulations set to take effect in January 2020 have implications for vessel operators, refiners, and global oil markets.

Casey Metheral, IPCO Germany GmbH, Germany, reviews the benefits of a new efficient and environmentally friendly sulfur drum granulation process.

Dr Richard Martin, Honeywell UOP Callidus, USA, introduces a new burner incorporating premix technology that is designed to address problems that can be encountered with staged fuel burners.

Valentin Kotlomin, Euro Petroleum Consultants, Russia, studies Russia and the CIS’s position within the global polyolefin market.

This year the US will import more oil from Canada than all the OPEC countries combined – and 80% of those imports will be heavy oil.

ESAI Energy predicts non-marketed naphtha and LPG demand to account for a 400 000 bpd rise in demand.

A new bitumen plant and liquefied gas filling station were launched as part of the first phase of Heydar Aliyev Refinery’s reconstruction and modernisation programme

Transition follows sale of select refinery assets to Par Pacific.

Par Pacific paid US$45 million for the refining assets plus additional amounts for certain hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon inventory.

Indian Oil Corp. has awarded McDermott the license and basic engineering design of two polypropylene plants.