Oil refinery news

Petron Corp. will expand and upgrade its Limay refinery in the Philippines with technologies from Honeywell UOP.

BASF has introduced Fourte FCC catalyst for refiners targeting an increase to their gasoline pool octane.

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.