Oil refinery news

Orpic aims to meet plastic demand with its Liwa Plastics Industries Complex project, which will include a refinery, aromatics plant, steam cracker and downstream polypropylene and polyethylene plants.

Praxair has started up two new air separation plants to supply China National Offshore Oil Corp.’s petrochemical park.

Meridian Energy Group Inc. has commenced civil construction of the Davis Refinery in North Dakota, US.

Praxair has renewed a long-term hydrogen supply agreement with Marathon’s Galveston Bay Refinery.

The EIA reports that US refining capacity was virtually unchanged between 2017 and 2018.

MGX Minerals Inc. and Highbury Energy Inc. have reported that additional work has commenced on gasification of petroleum coke into a synthetic liquid equivalent.

SGS and BHGE have announced a strategic alliance agreement for the deployment and commercialisation of a real time software and sensor-based solution.

AFPM has released a new report on the state of the American fuel and petrochemical supply chains.

MMEX Resources Corp. intends to develop a solar power project to provide electric power to its planned crude distillation unit and crude oil refinery.

INEOS has committed to building a new chemical cracker and propane dehydrogenation plant in North West Europe with a €2.7 billion investment.