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US House panel passes bill requiring more studies of E15 impacts

Feb 7, 2012 The US House Science, Space, and Technology Committee approved legislation that would require the US Environmental Protection Agency to further study possible impacts of increasing allowable ethano...

Thai refinery awards resid FCCU upgrade contract

Feb 6, 2012 Star Petroleum Refining Co. has awarded a contract to Shaw Group Inc., Baton Rouge, to provide technology license and process design for revamp of a residue fluid catalytic cracking unit at the Map...

Albanian refinery modernization due study

Jan 31, 2012 Albanian Refining & Marketing of Oil (ARMO) has let a contract to the Global Engineering & Construction Group of Foster Wheeler AG to study feasibility of modernizing its two refineries in ...

Frost & Sullivan: Europe's refineries face 'further turmoil'

Jan 30, 2012 The pending bankruptcy of refiner Petroplus is only the start of further problems for nearly 40% of the European Union’s 104 refineries now in need of refurbishment, according to a new consultancy ...

ExxonMobil to sell Japan unit for $3.9 billion

Jan 30, 2012

ExxonMobil Corp. and TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK have entered into an agreement valued at $3.9 billion that will result in the restructuring of ExxonMobil’s holdings in Japan.

Samsung Total expanding Daesan complex

Jan 27, 2012

Samsung Total Petrochemicals is building aromatics and ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer units at its Daesan petrochemical complex in Chungnam Province, South Korea.

South Sudan to construct refinery, oil pipeline to Kenya

Jan 26, 2012 The government of South Sudan, faced with alleged obstructions by Sudan, announced plans to build a refinery and pipeline aimed at transporting recently discovered crude oil to an export terminal i...

Chad refinery shuts down again amid 'dialogue of the deaf'

Jan 24, 2012 Chad’s 50,000-b/d Djarmaya refinery, 40 km north of the capital Ndjamena, has been shut down by government officials again due to a dispute over the price of oil with supplier China National Petrol...

Hovensa to close 500,000 b/d US Virgin Islands refinery

Jan 23, 2012 Hovensa LLC is closing its 500,000 b/d refinery at St Croix, USVI, the joint venture of Hess Corp. and Petroleos de Venezuela SA reported.

Ill-conceived rules could harm US refining, API officials warn

Jan 23, 2012 US refiners have enough operating or planned capacity to meet domestic demand for the foreseeable future, but the situation could change if ill-conceived proposed regulations are adopted, American ...

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