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Processing 2006 P

  • 05/12/2006 -- Chevron joins Texas biodiesel project
    Chevron Technology Ventures LLC (CTV) is participating in the construction of what it calls the first large-scale biodiesel plant in the US through a 22% equity interest in Galveston Bay Biodiesel LP (GBB), Houston.
  • 05/12/2006 -- House panel hears how fuel suppliers meeting challenges
    US motor fuel suppliers apparently are meeting challenges raised by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT) and new pollution-reduction requirements from the Environmental Protection Agency, several witnesses told a congressional committee on May 11.
  • 05/11/2006 -- Crude exporters to help Indonesian refining
    Indonesia's state-run oil and gas company PT Pertamina plans to build two refineries and upgrade several others with support from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.
  • 05/08/2006 -- Motiva considers expanding Texas refinery
    Motiva Enterprises LLC is considering more than doubling capacity of its 285,000-b/cd Port Arthur, Tex., refinery.
  • 05/04/2006 -- Aramco lets contract for Yanbu ethane work
    Saudi Aramco hired Engineering for Petroleum & Process Industries of Egypt to provide turnkey services to add ethane capacity at its Yanbu gas processing plant.
  • 05/04/2006 -- Enterprise Products to expand LPG terminal
    Enterprise Products Partners LP plans a second phase of expansion of its LPG import-export terminal on the Houston Ship Channel.
  • 05/03/2006 -- Texas olefins plant offline after fire
    Huntsman Corp. said its Port Arthur, Tex., olefins plant might be offline for several months after sustaining what appeared to be "significant" damage in an Apr. 29 fire.
  • 05/03/2006 -- Alon to merge acquired California refineries
    Alon USA Energy Inc. plans to combine two California heavy-crude refineries it is acquiring in separate transactions.
  • 05/01/2006 -- Tianjin ethylene plant work to start in June
    Sinopec plans to start construction in June of a 1 million-tonne/year ethylene project in Tianjin that will serve as the core of the petrochemical industry in the Chinese port city.
  • 04/27/2006 -- Chinese petrochemical complex fully on stream
    All production units of the $4.3 billion Daya Bay petrochemical complex in China's Huizhou Guangdong Province are fully operational, said Foster Wheeler Ltd., whose subsidiary is the project management contractor.
  • 04/26/2006 -- Ineos chief interested in refining growth
    Ineos Group Holdings Inc., which bought BP PLC petrochemical subsidiary Innovene, is determined to expand in refining, an executive said.
  • 04/25/2006 -- China approves coal-to-oil project
    China has granted approval to state-owned Yankuang Group, 58% owner of Yanzhou Coal Mining, to develop a coal-to-oil project in the northwestern province of Shaanxi.
  • 04/25/2006 -- Trinidad and Tobago ethylene project studied
    Westlake Chemical Corp. and the government of Trinidad and Tobago have signed a memorandum of understanding for Westlake to build a $1.5 billion ethane-based ethylene, polyethylene, and derivatives complex.
  • 04/24/2006 -- Letter signed for Yansab petrochemical units
    Saudi Basic Industries Corp. affiliate Yanbu National Petrochemical Co. has signed a letter of intent with Shaw Stone & Webster Inc. for the detailed engineering, procurement, and construction of a butene and aromatics plant at the large Yansab petrochemicals complex under development in Yanbu Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.
  • 04/24/2006 -- Automated pilot converts JP8 to hydrogen
    Unitel Technologies Inc., Mount Prospect, Ill., has designed and built a fully automated pilot plant for making fuel-cell hydrogen from JP8 (kerosene jet fuel).
  • 04/13/2006 -- Japan eyes coal-to-liquid scheme for China
    Japan plans to help Chinese companies liquefy coal in an effort to satisfy the soaring demand for energy in China.
  • 04/10/2006 -- ONGC awards order for NGL plant at Dahej
    India's Oil & Natural Gas Corp. has awarded Toyo Engineering Corp. a ¥20 billion order for the construction of an NGL extraction plant at Dahej in Gujarat state.
  • 04/10/2006 -- Ruhr Oel orders ethylene cracking furnaces
    Ruhr Oel GMBH hired Linde AG for the turnkey installation of five cracking furnaces for an ethylene plant at the company's Gelsenkirchen-Scholven site in Germany. The total order value is €130 million.
  • 04/07/2006 -- Topsoe wins hydrogen plant deal in S. Korea
    SK Corp. has awarded Haldor Topsoe AS, Lyngby, Denmark, a contract for a 110 MMscfd hydrogen plant at its 817,000 b/cd refinery at Ulsan, South Korea. The hydrogen plant will be part of a new resid hydrodesulfurization unit able to use multiple feedstocks.
  • 04/06/2006 -- KNPC prequalifies firms for refinery work
    Kuwait National Petroleum Co. has prequalified 11 companies for construction of a 600,000 b/d refinery 100 km south of Kuwait City in the Al-Zour area.
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