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Processing 2006 P

  • 06/05/2006 -- PDVSA considers building three refineries
    Petroleos de Venezuela SA is considering spending $10.5 billion to build refineries in Cabruta, Caripito, and Barinas with total capacities of 700,000 b/d, according to Alejandro Granado, PDVSA refining vice-president.
  • 06/05/2006 -- Plant to make biodiesel from crude palm oil
    Mission Biotechnologies Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of Mission Biofuels Ltd., Perth, Australia, said it will use crude palm oil (CPO) as primary feedstock at a biodiesel and glycerine purification refinery under development at Kuantan Port in Pahang, Malaysia.
  • 06/05/2006 -- Central American refinery under discussion
    Ten Latin American countries led by Mexico and Colombia agreed to build a refinery as large as 350,000 b/d in Central America designed to ensure energy supplies at preferential prices.
  • 06/05/2006 -- Citgo pegs Corpus Christi spill at 5.5 bbl
    Citgo Refining & Chemicals Co. LP reported that initial estimates suggest that its Corpus Christi Refinery East Plant lost about 5.5 bbl of oil from a holding tank during a storm when oily water was released into the ship channel (OJG Online, June 1, 2006).
  • 06/02/2006 -- Petrobras to produce soy oil, diesel mix
    Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) said it would introduce a pioneering low-sulfur diesel production technology involving vegetable oils at two refineries by 2008.
  • 06/02/2006 -- Chevron creates biofuels business unit
    Chevron Corp. has formed a biofuels business unit to pursue advanced technology and opportunities for production and distribution of ethanol and biodiesel in the US.
  • 06/02/2006 -- Contract let for Sarroch sulfur units
    Saras SPA has let a contract to a unit of Foster Wheeler Ltd. for a gasoline desulfurization unit and related facilities at its 300,000 b/cd Sarroch refinery in Sardinia, Italy.
  • 06/01/2006 -- Refinery releases oily water during storm
    Citgo Petroleum Corp. said containment boom was deployed in response to the release of oily water into the ship channel near its 156,750-b/cd Corpus Christi, Tex., refinery.
  • 06/01/2006 -- French program would push biofuels, energy savings
    French Finance, Economy, and Industry Minister Thierry Breton in late May announced a "very ambitious biofuels development plan" along with an elaborate energy-savings program in which all gas, heating oil, and electricity suppliers and "all the players within the automobile world" must participate under threat of financial penalties.
  • 05/31/2006 -- Indian Oil lets contract for naphtha cracker
    Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. has let a $565 million contract to Japan's Toyo Engineering Corp. and India's Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T) for construction of an 800,000-tonne/year naphtha cracker at Panipat, Haryana, in northern India.
  • 05/30/2006 -- Engen to license ConocoPhillips technologies
    Engen Petroleum Ltd. has agreed to license two ConocoPhillips Co. technologies for installation in 2008 at its 135,000 b/cd refinery in Durban, South Africa.
  • 05/25/2006 -- Ultramar files Saint Laurent pipeline EIS
    Ultramar Ltd., Montreal, has filed an environmental impact statement (EIS) with Canadian regulatory agencies as it seeks authorization to construct, operate, and maintain the 245 km Saint Laurent oil pipeline in Quebec.
  • 05/24/2006 -- Aramco, ConocoPhillips to build Yanbu refinery
    Saudi Aramco signed an agreement May 23 with ConocoPhillips to jointly construct a 400,000 b/d export refinery at Yanbu with a start-up date of 2011.
  • 05/22/2006 -- Syncrude shuts down new desulfurization unit
    On orders of Alberta Environmental Protection (AEP), Syncrude Canada Ltd., Calgary, has shut down its new Coker 8-3 flue-gas desulfurization unit and associated equipment, one of three fluid coker units at its Mildred Lake oil sands plant north of Fort McMurray, Alta.
  • 05/22/2006 -- Upgrades due Kårstø gas facility in Norway
    Statoil ASA, on behalf of Norway's state-owned gas company Gassco AS, has let an engineering contract to MW Kellogg Ltd., UK, for the upgrading and possible development of the gas treatment plant at Kårstø, north of Stavanger.
  • 05/22/2006 -- Aramco, Total to build Saudi export refinery
    Saudi Aramco signed an agreement May 21 with Total SA to jointly construct a 400,000 b/d export refinery at Jubail with a start-up date of 2011.
  • 05/18/2006 -- Work starts on TT urea-melamine complex
    Methanol Holdings (Trinidad) Ltd. has begun construction of its $1.5 billion ammonia, urea, ammonium nitrate solution, and melamine solution complex.
  • 05/16/2006 -- PNG gas processing, LNG plants proposed
    Natural Gas Development Co. (NGDC), a new entity owned by Canadian firm InterOil, Merrill Lynch Commodities, and Clarion Finanz AG, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Papua New Guinea to pursue development of a gas processing plant and gas liquefaction facility.
  • 05/15/2006 -- Lurgi to build CO, hydrogen, ethanol plants
    Lurgi AG, Frankfurt, has been awarded separate contracts worth more than €260 million to build a carbon monoxide plant in Saudi Arabia, a hydrogen plant in Malaysia, and a bioethanol plant in the US.
  • 05/12/2006 -- Refining joint venture formed in Cambodia
    The Cambodian National Petroleum Authority and Japan's Mitsui & Co. plan to establish an refinery-construction joint venture called Cambodia Project Planning Development Management.
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