US refinery news

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.

Nacero has selected Topsoe’s TIGAS™ technology for its multi-billion US$ natural gas-to-gasoline facility in Penwell, Texas, to reduce the lifecycle carbon footprint of gasoline production.

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According to Today in Energy, both US imports and exports of several transportation fuels fell in 2020.

Honeywell has announced that Brazil-based ECB Group will use the UOP Ecofining™ process to convert vegetable oils and inedible animal fats into renewable diesel and jet fuel.

Jones Capital has announced the acquisition of Rockport Terminals, a private intermodal terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast, US.

‘Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) 2021 – 2040’, a new report from IDTechEx, has explored the technical and commercial factors key to the success of CCUS.

A Rystad Energy report shows that natural gas flaring at US non-upstream onshore oil and gas facilities reached an 18-month high in February 2021.