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08/25/2005 -- Contracts set for Vietnam's first refinery
Major work contracts are in place for construction of a 140,000 b/d refinery in Vietnam—the country's first—at Dung Quat in the central province of Quang Ngai, state oil firm Petrovietnam reported.
08/25/2005 -- Venezuela, Brazil ready to build refinery
A dispute that lasted almost 2 years over a planned $2 billion binational refinery to be built in Brazil by Petroleo Brasileiro SA and Petroleos de Venezuela SA seems to be ending.
08/24/2005 -- BP to issue refinery investigation report
BP PLC said it would issue a final incident investigation report in late September identifying the underlying causes of the Mar. 23 explosion at the company's Texas City, Tex., refinery, which killed 15 persons (OGJ, May 23, 2005, p. 37).
08/23/2005 -- Neste Oil, Bapco propose Bahrain lube plant
Finland's Neste Oil Corp. and Bahrain Petroleum Co. (Bapco) signed an agreement covering commercial terms for a proposal to design, build, and operate a plant to produce high-quality lubricant base oil at Bapco's Bahrain refinery.
08/22/2005 -- ExxonMobil refinery to add hydrogen unit
Air Products & Chemicals Inc., Allentown, Pa., and ExxonMobil Corp. have signed an agreement for Air Products to build an 18 MMscfd hydrogen facility adjacent to ExxonMobil's Joliet, Ill., refinery.
08/19/2005 -- Porvoo refinery turnaround, upgrades planned
Finland's Neste Oil Corp. plans to build a production line at its 200,000 b/d Porvoo refinery as part of a diesel project. The line, along with a €500 million euro biodiesel plant currently under construction, will be tied in to the refinery during a 5-week maintenance turnaround that will start Aug. 29 (OGJ Online, July 7, 2004).
08/17/2005 -- Sabic unit lets contract for PP expansion
Saudi European Petrochemical Co., a unit of Saudi Basic Industries Corp., awarded a contract to Aker Kvaerner for Sabic's Ibn Zahr Polypropylene (PP) III expansion project at Al-Jabail, Saudi Arabia.
08/16/2005 -- Syntroleum plans coal-to-liquids project in Australia
Syntroleum Corp. signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Linc Energy Pty. Ltd., Brisbane, Australia, to jointly develop a coal-to-liquids (CTL) project in Queensland, Australia.
08/16/2005 -- Kinder Morgan expanding Texas intrastate gas pipeline
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, Houston, plans to expand its intrastate natural gas pipeline system into the Permian basin by converting 254 miles of previously acquired crude oil pipeline into natural gas transportation.
08/09/2005 -- Terasen to expand Corridor heavy-oil system
Terasen Pipelines Inc., Calgary, has initiated engineering, environmental, and consultation activities on its proposed expansion of the Corridor pipeline system in Alberta.
08/09/2005 -- US second-quarter petrochemical output down
US petrochemical production in the second quarter was down 3% from the same quarter in 2004 and down 5% from the first quarter of this year, reported the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) in its quarterly inventory survey released July 27.
08/05/2005 -- Upgrader to get UOP hydroprocessing unit
North West Upgrading Inc., Calgary, has selected UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Ill., to design and license a new hydroprocessing unit to upgrade synthetic crude from Canadian bitumen.
08/04/2005 -- Petrobras exporting ethanol to Venezuela
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has shipped 25,000 cu m of fuel ethanol produced from sugar cane to Venezuela's Petroleos de Venezuela SA under a new long-term contract.
08/02/2005 -- Aramco, Sumitomo form Rabigh joint venture
Sumitomo Chemical Co. of Japan and Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Aramco) have signed an agreement finalizing a 50-50 joint venture to build a $4.3 billion refining-petrochemical complex at Rabigh, Saudi Arabia.
07/29/2005 -- Explosion hits BP Texas City refinery unit
An explosion and fire disrupted the resid hydrotreating unit at BP PLC's 446,500-b/cd Texas City, Tex., refinery, where a Mar. 23 accident killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others.
07/26/2005 -- Dow Freeport cracker remains shut down
Dow Chemical Co., which shut down its 590,000 tonne/year Light Hydrocarbon 7 ethylene cracker at Freeport, Tex., June 26 because of equipment failure, said the unit was still down July 26.
07/26/2005 -- Petrofac to build gas plant in northern Oman
Oman's Ministry of Oil & Gas has awarded a $200 million engineering, procurement, and construction contract to Petrofac UK Ltd., Woking, UK, for construction of a 20 MMscf separation plant at Kauther gas field in northern Oman.
07/26/2005 -- Pemex, Valero units to lay products pipeline
Valero LP, San Antonio, has signed agreements with Pemex-Gas y Petroquimica Basica and PMI Trading Ltd. (PMI) to construct more than 114 mi of products pipeline in Mexico and Texas and to ship products on the line for 10 years.
07/25/2005 -- UOP starts up CCR Platforming unit in China
UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Ill., has commissioned a CCR Platforming unit at Zhanjiang Refinery, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
07/20/2005 -- Lukoil's Stavrolen plans polypropylene plant
Stavrolen, a unit of Lukoil-Neftekhim, plans to build a 120,000-tonne/year polypropylene plant at Budennovsk, Russia. The plant is scheduled for completion in 2006.

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