US refinery news

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and Air Products Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer Seifi Ghasemi have announced a US$4.5 billion clean energy complex to be built in Louisiana that will make the state a leader in the US clean energy transition.

bp has announced plans for a US$269 million investment in three projects at its Cherry Point Refinery in Washington state, US.

Bently Nevada, a Baker Hughes business, and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) have announced a strategic framework alliance agreement for the supply of asset performance management services.

A second production facility for Kevilon in Knoxville, Tennessee, US, has been launched.

Kinder Morgan is partnering with Neste to create a premier domestic raw material storage and logistics hub in the US, supporting increased production of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel and renewable feedstock for polymers and chemicals.

Chevron has joined a hydrogen joint venture with Magnum Development and Mitsubishi Power to produce, store and transport green hydrogen at utility scale for power generation, transportation and industrial applications in the western US.

LyondellBasell has announced that the company has obtained the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification for certain grades of polyethylene and polypropylene produced at four of its US manufacturing sites.

Rain Carbon Inc. has resumed calcined petroleum coke production at three of its US facilities, and the restart process has begun at a fourth plant impacted by Hurricane Ida, which hit the Gulf Coast on August 29.

According to GlobalData, low-carbon hydrogen production in North America is to nearly triple by 2030, reaching 1.4 million tpy.

ClearSign Technologies Corp has received a verbal notification from ExxonMobil to put on hold the testing of its ClearSign Core process burners to be installed at the Baytown, Texas refinery.