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Processing 2007 P

  • 08/01/2007 -- Eastman Chemical taps Fluor for gasification plant FEED
    Eastman Chemical Co. has awarded a $12 million contract to Fluor Corp., Irving, Tex., to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for its $1.6 billion gasification plant to be built in Beaumont on the Texas Gulf Coast.
  • 07/27/2007 -- Star Energy to construct 8.2 bcf Albury gas store
    Star Energy Group PLC plans to develop an 8.2 billion cu ft gas store in the partially depleted Albury gas reservoir near Guildford, Surrey, in southeast England. The project's cost and timeline were not given.
  • 07/25/2007 -- Sovereign extends lease with North American Refining
    Sovereign Oil Inc., a unit of Voyager Petroleum Inc., Hinsdale, Ill., entered into a 6-month lease with North American Refining Co. for the use of its compounding and blending facility at McCook, Ill.
  • 07/25/2007 -- Williams to extract ethane from Alberta oil sands
    Nova Chemicals Corp., Pittsburgh, has signed a letter of intent with Williams Cos., Tulsa, to evaluate a process for extracting ethane from Alberta oil sands off-gas streams.
  • 07/23/2007 -- Placid Refining to upgrade Port Allen refinery
    Placid Refining Co. LLC has begun a $200 million upgrade of its 55,000 b/cd refinery in Port Allen, La.
  • 07/23/2007 -- PDVSA, Petronic to build refinery near Managua
    Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and his Nicaraguan counterpart Daniel Ortega July 20 launched construction of a 150,000 b/d refinery in Piedras Blancas, near Nicaragua's Pacific coast.
  • 07/23/2007 -- Dana Gas JV to build gas liquids plant in Egypt
    Dana Gas PJSC reported that its Bahraini affiliate Danagaz Bahrain will build, own, and operate the Gulf of Suez gas liquids plant in Egypt by late 2009.
  • 07/19/2007 -- Algeria expanding petrochemical capability
    Algeria has awarded more than $4 billion in contracts to expand its petrochemical infrastructure for more diversified products production.
  • 07/18/2007 -- Japanese firms to export more products to US
    Japan's Cosmo Oil and Idemitsu Kosan are taking steps to increase or start exports of products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, and kerosine to the US—California in particular.
  • 07/18/2007 -- Grupa Lotos lets EPC for Gdansk refinery upgrade
    Grupa Lotos SA has awarded a €472 million lump sum, turnkey contract to Technip SA to design the 45,000 b/d mild hydrocracking unit for the Gdansk refinery in Poland.
  • 07/17/2007 -- Coffeyville Resources restarts flooded fertilizer plant
    Coffeyville Resources LLC has restarted its fertilizer plant after record flooding on the Verdigris River caused both the Coffeyville, Kan., nitrogen fertilizer plant and a nearby refinery to be shut down.
  • 07/17/2007 -- Interest in a Central America refinery progresses
    Mexico's Ministry of Energy said four international companies have expressed interest in constructing a refinery in Central America under terms of the Mezo-American Energy Integration Program.
  • 07/11/2007 -- Coffeyville refinery still recovering after flood
    Coffeyville Resources LLC in Coffeyville, Kan., estimates that 1,700 bbl of oil and a small amount of oil from the refinery's sewer system were swept away by Verdigris River flood waters.
  • 07/10/2007 -- Liaoning lets contract for polyethylene plant
    Liaoning Huajin Chemicals has let a contract to Technip for basic engineering design and precommissioning support for a polyethylene plant to be built in Panjin, China.
  • 07/10/2007 -- PTT unit lets contract for Thai polypropylene plant
    HMC Polymers has awarded a $185 million contract to South Korea's GS Engineering & Construction to build a polypropylene plant in Rayong, southeast of Bangkok.
  • 07/10/2007 -- Valero to pay fines, upgrade Delaware City refinery
    Valero Energy agreed to pay $445,000 in penalties and spend $5.6 million on improvements and environmental projects at its 190,000 b/cd Delaware City, Del., refinery in a settlement over alleged air and water violations.
  • 07/10/2007 -- Total to build two units at Lindsey refinery
    Total SA has begun construction of a hydrodesulfurization unit and a hydrogen production unit at its 221,286 b/cd Lindsey refinery, near Immingham in the UK.
  • 07/09/2007 -- Citgo found guilty of two US environmental charges
    A federal jury in Corpus Christi, Tex., found Citgo Petroleum guilty of two felony criminal violations of the Clean Air Act but acquitted the refiner-marketer on two other counts.
  • 07/06/2007 -- Canada offers incentives for biofuels
    The Canadian government will provide up to $1.5 billion in incentives over 9 years to producers of biofuels, Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper said July 5 in Strongfield, Sask.
  • 07/06/2007 -- Georgia cellulosic ethanol plant gets permit
    Georgia state officials granted a construction permit to Range Fuels to build the first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the US.
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