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• 05/20/2013 -- IOC develops biodiesel coprocessing method
  State-owned Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOC) has developed and commercialized a technology for coprocessing nonedible vegetable oil in a refinery diesel hydrotreating unit to make biodiesel.
• 05/07/2013 -- OMV boosts butadiene output at refineries
  OMV is investing €230 million to add a butadiene plant at its 73,000-b/d refinery at Berghausen, Germany, and to upgrade a butadiene plant at its 193,000-b/d refinery at Schwechat, Austria.
• 05/02/2013 -- Tesoro halts Hawaii refinery crude runs
  Tesoro Corp. stopped running crude at its 93,700-b/cd Hawaii refinery on Apr. 30.
• 04/24/2013 -- Crosstex awards fractionator contracts for La. expansions
  Crosstex Processing Services LLC, a unit of Crosstex Energy LP, Dallas, has awarded a contract to UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Ill., for technology and equipment to extract petrochemical feedstocks from NGLs derived from shale gas.
• 04/16/2013 -- Williams Partners, Shell form midstream JV
  Williams Partners LP, Tulsa, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC have joined to form Three Rivers Midstream, a company to provide gas gathering and gas processing for production in northwest Pennsylvania. The venture will invest in both wet-gas handling infrastructure and dry-gas infrastructure serving Marcellus and Utica shale wells.
• 04/12/2013 -- Pakistan to build refinery in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of the northwest province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to build a 40,000-b/d refinery on about 400 acres in Kohat district of K-P, the state-owned company reported.
• 04/11/2013 -- Yasref awards Yanbu refinery, petchem contract
  Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Co. Ltd. (Yasref) has awarded a 2-year engineering services to SNC-Lavilin Fayez Engineering for the refinery and petrochemical plant under construction at Yanbu on the Red Sea. The company is a Saudi Arabia-registered subsidiary of SNC-Lavilin, Montreal.
• 04/11/2013 -- Eagle Ford prompts more South Texas fractionation
  TexStar Midstream Services LP, San Antonio, will install two fractionation units in Corpus Christi, Tex., adjacent LyondellBasell’s Equistar Chemicals LP olefins plant.
• 04/03/2013 -- Sinopec, PetroSA in Mthombo refinery accord
  China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec) said it has reached a cooperation framework agreement with Petroleum Oil & Gas Corp. of South Africa (PetroSA) “which enabled the companies to move forward the world-scale Mthombo crude oil refinery project in Port Elizabeth’s Coega Industrial Development Zone.”
• 03/28/2013 -- IHS: Prospects have dimmed for bitumen upgraders in Alberta
  Prospects for new bitumen upgraders in Alberta have soured since the global recession of 2008, notes a study published by IHS on the same day plans were reported cancelled for a large project near Fort McMurray (OGJ Online, Mar. 27, 2013).