Stay Connected
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013

Processing 2010 P

  • 02/05/2010 -- Valero buys Wisconsin ethanol plant
    Valero Renewable Fuels Co. LLC has completed the purchase of a 110 million gal/year ethanol plant near Jefferson, Wis., from privately held Renew Energy.
  • 02/05/2010 -- UFIP chief: French refining industry situation ‘critical’
    The French refining industry faces a “critical” situation as part of a European system in which “between 10 to 15% of the 114 refineries should be shut down to restore a demand-supply balance,” says the leader of a trade group.
  • 02/11/2010 -- Elme ethylene plant in Nigeria due revamp
    Elme Petrochemicals Co. of Nigeria has let a contract to KBR for a revamp of the company’s 550,000-tonne/year ethylene plant at Elme, near Port Harcourt.
  • 02/17/2010 -- Paramount Petroleum to buy California refinery
    Paramount Petroleum Corp. plans to buy a closed Bakersfield, Calif., refinery from Flying J Inc., and its subsidiary Big West of California LLC, for $40 million, subject to approval from a bankruptcy court.
  • 02/17/2010 -- Strikes hit Total's refineries in France
    Total SA’s six refineries and 12 product depots in France have been hit by labor strikes supporting the Feb. 16 takeover by workers of the idle 137,000-b/d Dunkirk refinery.
  • 02/19/2010 -- ExxonMobil to use Air Products' NRU in Texas field work
    ExxonMobil Corp. will employ nitrogen recovery and cryogenic gas processing equipment from Air Products, Lehigh Valley, Pa., for work to extend the producing life of Hawkins field in northeast Texas.
  • 02/24/2010 -- Skid-mounted units doubling capacity of Kurdish refinery
    Ventech Engineers Inc. has completed the delivery to northern Iraq of a 20,000 b/d, skid-mounted refinery that it fabricated at its Pasadena, Tex., plant and shipped in modules.
  • 02/25/2010 -- French workers end strike at Total units
    Union workers called off a week-long strike at 6 of Total SA refineries and 7 of its 31 storage depots in France after company officials promised not to shut down or sell any more refineries for 5 years.
  • 03/02/2010 -- One Chilean refinery due back online next week
    Chile’s state-owned oil company Empresa Nacional del Petroleo (Enap) said its 97,650-b/d Aconcagua refinery will be online next week but that no date could be given for the restart of its 113,000-b/d Bio Bio facility.
  • 03/03/2010 -- UPDATE: Fire hits Navajo Refinery asphalt tank
    Fire at an asphalt tank under construction at Holly Corp.’s 100,000 b/d Navajo Refinery in Artesia, NM, killed at least one contract worker and left another worker missing and feared dead, Holly said.