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05/19/2003 -- Industry wins concessions in proposed EU chemical regulations
Fierce lobbying helped water down a 2-year-old white paper proposal of European Union policy on the manufacture and importation of industrial chemicals into more "workable and manageable" draft legislation last week.
05/19/2003 -- Valero to restart Ardmore refinery Wednesday
Valero Energy Corp, San Antonio, said repairs to the sulfur recovery unit in its Ardmore, Okla., refinery's only sulfur train have been completed, and it plans to restart the refinery Wednesday morning.
05/16/2003 -- Cost-effective design reduces C2 and C3 at LNG receiving terminals
An LNG receiving terminal with a C2+ or C3+ separation facility can receive LNG feeds with varying compositions, meet stringent calorific value export gas specifications, and decrease capital and operting costs.
05/15/2003 -- PIC, Dow to construct Olefins II units in Kuwait
Kuwait Petroleum Corp.'s petrochemical arm Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC), and the Dow Chemical Co. jointly plan to construct a new ethylene and derivatives complex , Olefins II, in Shuaiba, Kuwait. Work on the project is expected to begin "in the near future," Dow said, with start-up anticipated in early 2007.
05/14/2003 -- Shell Canada commissions hydrotreaters at two refineries
Shell Canada Products recently commissioned two gasoline hydrotreaters at its refineries in Montréal and Sarnia, Canada to supply ultralow-sulfur gasoline to the Canadian market well ahead of the Jan. 1, 2005, date when the Canadian regulations call for 30 ppm average sulfur in gasoline.
05/14/2003 -- NPRA urges New York lawmakers to postpone MTBE ban
The National Petrochemical & Refineries Association has urged New York state officials to reconsider and postpone a scheduled ban on methyl tertiary butyl ether in gasoline starting next year.
05/14/2003 -- Valero buying Orion Refining Corp.'s Louisiana refinery
Valero Energy Corp., San Antonio, Wednesday announced an agreement to acquire Orion Refining Corp.'s 155,000 b/d refinery in Louisiana for $400 million plus $100 million for working capital.
05/14/2003 -- Valero to shutdown Ardmore refinery for repairs
Valero Energy Corp., San Antonio, said Tuesday it would temporarily shut down its Ardmore, Okla., refinery to repair a steam generation leak in the sulfur recovery unit of the refinery's only sulfur train.
05/12/2003 -- Enterprise asset performance management improves plant maintenance
ExxonMobil's new approach to equipment reliability in all its facilities has helped the company reduce maintenance costs by 30% and increase mechanical availability by 2%.
05/09/2003 -- Dow Chemical awards contract for PET production train in Germany
Dow Chemical Co. has awarded a contract to Jacobs Engineering Group for the engineering and procurement services for the building of a 385 million lb/year polyethylene terephthalate production chain at Dow's Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund GMBH site at Schkopau, Germany.
05/09/2003 -- Shell plans to reduce retail marketing share in France
Within the next 2 years Royal Dutch/Shell Group will have reduced to 350 the number of its retail stations in France from the 950 it currently operates.
05/05/2003 -- Petroperu plans upgrade for Talara refinery
Peru state oil company Petroleos del Peru SA (Petroperu) expects to hold an international tender during the second half of the year or in first quarter 2004 to upgrade its 62,000 b/d north coast Talara refinery, according to Petroperu president Hector Taco.
05/05/2003 -- InterOil sends second refinery equipment shipment to Papua New Guinea
InterOil Corp., The Woodlands, Tex., Thursday shipped refinery process vessels, main heaters, and other major equipment for a new refinery it is building in Papua New Guinea. The new 32,500 b/d refinery, the country's first, is expected to start up by Dec. 31.
05/02/2003 -- Critical path diagrams optimize FCC start-ups
Critical path diagrams, which have evolved from logic diagrams, can help refiners optimize the timing of FCC start-ups.
04/28/2003 -- Shell granted environmental permit for Baja California LNG terminal
Royal Dutch/Shell unit Shell Gas & Power said the Mexican authority SEMARNAT granted an environmental permit Apr 8 for Shell's proposed LNG regasification terminal in Baja California, Mexico.
04/28/2003 -- Fire at PDVSA's 940,000 b/d Cardon refinery shuts down hydro unit
A fire that broke out at midnight Saturday night shut down one of the four hydrodesulfurization units at the Petroleos de Venezuela SA 940,000 b/d Paraguana refinery complex 350 miles from Caracas in Venezuela's western state of Falcon, Caracas television media reported Sunday. No one was injured.
04/28/2003 -- Safco awards UHDE engineering contract for Al-Jubail fertilizer plant
Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Co. (Safco), an affiliate of Riyadh-based Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC), awarded a lump-sum, turnkey contract to the German engineering company, UHDE GMBH for engineering, procurement, and construction of Safco 4, a world-class ammonia and urea plant complex to be built at Al-Jubail Industrial City on Saudi Arabia's northeast coast.
04/25/2003 -- Atlantic LNG partners to start up Train 3
Atlantic LNG Co. of Trinidad and Tobago has announced that its third LNG train will come on stream during the first week of May, nearly 2 months ahead of schedule.
04/25/2003 -- Kern River receives FERC approval to place expansion into service
Kern River Gas Transmission Co. has received Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval to place its $1.2 billion, 2003 expansion project into service May 1, at which time it will accept nominations for natural gas delivery.
04/25/2003 -- Correlation calculates adsorption capacity of activated carbon for alkyl benzenes in water
Adsorption on activated carbon effectively removes compounds from water. This article presents results for adsorption capacity of activated carbon for alkyl benzenes in water.

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