US refinery news

Nacero has selected Bechtel for t the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for its natural gas-to-gasoline manufacturing facility in the US.

Mitsubishi Power and Texas Brine have joined forces on large-scale hydrogen storage solutions to support decarbonisation efforts in eastern America.

Navitas Midstream Partners LLC has purchased a gas processing plant from Honeywell UOP to extract natural gas liquids (NGLs) from natural gas produced in several counties in the Permian Basin, US.

According to the EIA, exports of fuel ethanol fell in the US for the second year running.

Sapphire Gas Solutions has been awarded the transportation and logistics contracts for seven farm based renewable natural gas operations in central California, US.

According to the EIA, the record-breaking cold snap which hit the US in February 2021 caused the largest monthly declines on record for natural gas production and industrial sector consumption, while residential sector consumption reached a record high.

HollyFrontier Corp. has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Puget Sound refinery, the on-site cogeneration facility and related logistics assets, from Equilon Enterprises LLC.

According EIA, natural gas storage capacity remained essentially unchanged in 2020; however, some operators revised earlier estimates, increasing working gas capacity. 

UNICAT Catalyst Technologies LLC, a portfolio company of White Deer Energy, a US private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of Jemmtec Ltd, trading as Magma Group, a UK based specialist in ceramics and catalyst manufacturing and related services.

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.