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02/12/2004 -- Report: New propylene production technologies hold great promise
New process technologies for propylene production show great promise, according to a new report from Nexant Inc., White Plains, NY.
02/09/2004 -- US Ex-Im Bank approves loan for Nigeria's first privately financed refinery
The US Export Import Bank has approved a loan guarantee for more than $10 million to finance the construction of Phase 1 of the proposed 12,000 b/d Amakpe Modular refinery project at Eket in Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria.
02/09/2004 -- US CSB continues to call for stronger rules on reactive chemicals
The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board Feb. 5 said it found "unacceptable" that the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration has so far opted not to consider CSB recommendations to broaden reactive chemical rules for the workplace.
02/09/2004 -- Work on Intrepid's Idaho manure-methane processing plant to start in March
Dairy manure will be used as feedstock for a natural gas processing plant being planned at Rupert, Ida., the state's first such facility.
02/06/2004 -- Fourth quarter 2003 US petrochemical production up from 3Q
US production of a selection of petrochemicals in the fourth quarter of 2003 increased 3% to 52.4 billion lb over production in the third quarter, according to a study released Jan. 29 by the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association.
02/06/2004 -- Simulation model determines optimal tank farm design
Foster Wheeler USA recently completed a detailed tankage and hydraulic study for Kuwait National Petroleum Co. which assessed the existing tank farms at three refineries.
01/30/2004 -- Croatia to upgrade Rijeka refinery automations
Croatia's national oil and gas company Industrija Nafte Zagreb (INA) plans to modernize its Rijeka refinery to increase production and improve safety and environmental performance.
01/30/2004 -- Correlation estimates FCC unit sulfuric acid emissions
A new correlation estimates the amount of sulfuric acid emissions in FCC flue-gas streams based on the amount of SO2 formed in the unit.
01/29/2004 -- Florida sues to recover environmental clean up costs from defunct refinery
Florida has sued the former and current owners of the now-defunct St. Marks Refinery Inc. to recover more than $12 million that the state spent to clean up pollution at the refinery site in the state's central panhandle area.
01/28/2004 -- Saudi Arabia awards IOC contracts for Rub' Al-Khali basin exploration
In a major upstream gas offering, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources this week awarded three contracts to international oil companies (IOCs) to explore and develop nonassociated natural gas in a 121,000 sq km section of the country's Rub' Al-Khali basin.
01/26/2004 -- Sinopec plans polyethylene plant using Chevron Phillips slurry techonolgy
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP has licensed its loop slurry technology to China Petrochemical International Co. Ltd. (Sinopec) for a planned 350,000 tonne/year, high-density polyethylene plant to be built in China. The plant will be constructed at Sinopec's Maoming Petrochemical complex in China's Guangdong Province.
01/23/2004 -- Increasing Russian crude oil exports changing worldwide trade patterns
Russian oil products exports will increase in the next few years, but will face major roadblocks due to more-stringent European specifications.
01/22/2004 -- Saudi Aramco commissions Haradh processing facility
Saudi Aramco has commissioned a major natural gas and oil processing project at Haradh, Saudi Arabia. The facility consists of a 1.5 bcfd gas processing plant for delivering sales gas to Saudi Arabia's national gas system, a state-of-the-art gas-oil separation plant (GOSP) capable of separating 300,000 b/d of Arabian Light crude oil, and a 130 MMscf gas-gathering system.
01/20/2004 -- Frontier Oil contains coking unit fire at Cheyenne refinery
Refinery operator Frontier Oil Corp. reported a fire erupted Monday afternoon at the company's 46,000 b/d refinery at Cheyenne, Wyo.
01/20/2004 -- TNK-BP CEO Dudley banks on Russian oil, gas growth
TNK-BP CEO, Pres. Bob Dudley "The [Russian] asset base is mature, but not like the North Sea or Gulf of Mexico. We are looking to transform some of these assets."
01/19/2004 -- US chemical safety board decides against full investigation of Huntsman MTBE plant
The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) Friday said it would not conduct a full investigation of a recent chemical accident at a 10-year-old petrochemical plant owned by Huntsman Petrochemical Corp. in Port Neches, Tex.
01/19/2004 -- At $35/bbl, OPEC still frets over price plunge
US oil futures prices have passed the $35/bbl threshold again, and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries still frets that a price collapse may loom in the second quarter.
01/16/2004 -- Simulation study compares ethane recovery in turboexpander processes
A study of five ethane-recovery processes showed significantly higher ethane recovery in turboexpander processes that have a gas-liquid and gas-gas exchanger and use the gas for bottom reboiler duty.
01/15/2004 -- US officials to investigate MTBE-PO plant fire
The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board Wednesday said it has sent two of its investigators to the site of a Jan. 11 explosion and fire at a Huntsman Petrochemical Corp. plant in Port Neches, Tex., near the Louisiana border.
01/13/2004 -- Parker Instrumentation wins Basra refinery refurbishment order
Parker Instrumentation, a division of Parker Hannifin Corp., Barnstaple, UK, has been selected to supply valves and compression tube fittings worth more than $250,000 for upgrading the 140,000 b/d Basra refinery in southern Iraq.

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