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08/28/2008 -- Chevron plans base oil plant at Pascagoula, Miss.
Chevron has applied to the Mississippi DEQ for an environmental permit to build a premium base oil facility at the company's 330,000 b/d refinery in Pascagoula, Miss.
08/27/2008 -- Dalian refinery receives Saudi crude
PetroChina's recently expanded refinery in Dalian received its first cargo of Saudi Arabian crude on Aug. 26.
08/25/2008 -- BP lets delayed coker contract to Foster Wheeler
BP Products North America awarded a contract to Foster Wheeler Ltd. for the engineering, procurement, and fabrication of a 102,000 b/sd, 6-drum delayed coking unit and gas plant facilities at BP's 405,000-b/d Whiting refinery in northwest Indiana.
08/25/2008 -- China LPG production edges up, imports slide
China's 2007 LPG output maintained its steady increase since 2002, while LPG imports continued their 5-year slide, according to a recently released study by FACTS Global Energy (FGE), Honolulu.
08/24/2008 -- Pakistan refineries protest reduced products duties
Pakistan's Economic Coordination Committee has rejected a claim by the country's refineries that they face loss under the reduced "deemed duty" (ad valorem surcharge) that they now are allowed to charge.
08/21/2008 -- Regulators clear two parcels at Marathon refinery for reuse
Two portions of Marathon Petroleum Co.'s refinery complex at Garyville, La., have been designated ready for reuse, federal and state environmental regulators jointly announced on Aug. 20.
08/20/2008 -- NPRA releases 2008 refining, storage capacity report
US refiners have continued to add capacity despite soaring oil prices and shrinking margins, NPRA said as it release its annual refining and storage capacity report.
08/19/2008 -- Australia's Cityview to buy, relocate African refinery
CityView Corp. Ltd., Perth, plans to purchase a 50,000 b/sd refinery and relocate it on Africa's west coast by first-quarter 2010.
08/17/2008 -- Kuwait investigates al Zour refinery contracts
Kuwaiti Oil Minister Mohammed al-Olaim has refuted legislators' claims of any wrongdoing in the award process for the 615,000 b/d al-Zour refinery project.
08/15/2008 -- Bush joins congressional Republicans in calling for OCS moratorium vote
US President George W. Bush urged the Democratic congressional majority to schedule a vote on opening more of the Outer Continental Shelf to oil and gas leasing when federal lawmakers return from their August recess.
08/13/2008 -- Valero breaks ground on Port Arthur refinery project
Valero Energy Corp. broke ground Aug. 13 on a $2.4 billion expansion project at its 325,000-b/d refinery in Port Arthur, Tex.
08/12/2008 -- PetroChina Sichuan awards China chemical project
PetroChina Sichuan has selected the Unipol polypropylene process technology from Dow for its new 450,000 tpy polypropylene facility at Chengdu, capital city of China's Sichuan province.
08/08/2008 -- Flint Hills plans desulfurizaion unit at West Plant
Flint Hills Resources plans to add a diesel desulfurization unit and a sulfur recovery unit to its 56-year-old West Plant, part of the company's 300,000 b/d Corpus Christi, Tex., refinery complex.
08/08/2008 -- Flint Hills plans desulfurization unit at West Plant
Flint Hills Resources plans to add a diesel desulfurization unit and a sulfur recovery unit to its 56-year-old West Plant, part of the company's 300,000 b/d Corpus Christi, Tex., refinery complex.
08/07/2008 -- Placid Refining installs FCC reactor
Placid Refining Co. installed a 230-ton fluid catalytic cracking reactor at its Port Allen, La., refinery, marking a major milestone in the company's $300 million expansion.
08/07/2008 -- Petroecuador looking to upgrade Esmeraldas refinery
Ecuador's Petroecuador, eyeing improved output from its Esmeraldas refinery, is negotiating a contract with Chiyoda for the rehabilitation and modernization of the facility, according to media reports.
08/07/2008 -- Valero lets $1.2 billion in refinery expansion contracts
Valero Energy Corp. has awarded two contracts valued at a total $1.2 billion to Fluor Corp. for upgrades to its refineries at St. Charles, La., and Port Arthur, Tex.
08/07/2008 -- BP outlines investment plans for cellulosic ethanol
BP PLC announced plans to invest $90 million in Verenium Corp. to accelerate the development and commercialization of cellulosic ethanol.
08/06/2008 -- Nizhnekamsk refinery upgrade progresses
The Nizhnekamsk refinery, 250 km from Tatarstan's capital city of Kazan, will have a refining capacity of 7 million tonnes/year following upgrade efforts currently under way (OGJ, Sept. 25, 2006, Newsletter).
08/06/2008 -- Pemex study finds more refineries, pipelines needed
Mexico's Pemex, in a study released to the country's Congress, has underscored the need for additional refining resources or, lacking them, additional pipelines within the country.

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