US refinery news
ExxonMobil awards Matrix FCCU turnaround at Joliet refinery
Matrix Service Inc. has serviced the refinery for 16 years.
Refinery maintenance contributes to decreasing Western Canadian crude oil price, says EIA
Pipeline capacity constraints are also a factor.
Limetree Bay Ventures closes US$1.25 billion financing for refinery restart
The facility is located in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
EIA: High gasoline inventories help drive US refining margins to five-year lows
Flattening year-over-year growth in gasoline demand in the United States, combined with high levels of refinery output, have contributed to low or negative motor gasoline refining margins for refiners along the East and Gulf Coasts.
Par Pacific to acquire US Oil & Refining Co.
Acquisition connects assets in Hawaii, Pacific Northwest and the Rockies.
Linde to partner with DCRC on hydrogen production facilities
Linde and PBF Energy have broken ground for a hydrogen plant being built with PBF’s subsidiary.
Tallgrass Energy announces binding agreement surrounding refining complex and liquids terminal
A proposed pipeline would serve both the St. James complex and Plaquemines Liquids Terminal in Louisiana.
Air Liquide to build liquid hydrogen production plant
The company has signed a long-term agreement with FirstElement Fuel Inc.
Praxair signs long-term agreement to supply Fulcrum’s Sierra BioFuels Plant in Nevada
Praxair will build two vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) plants at the facility, which is under construction and expected to start up operations in early 2020.
API: "EPA set to release its annual reminder that the RFS is broken"
As the EPA finalises ethanol volumes for 2019 and biodiesel volumes for 2020 under the Renewable Fuel Standard, the American Petroleum Institute urged the agency to protect consumers from the ethanol blendwall and to continue to reject efforts by some to reallocate volumes from small refinery exemptions.