Oil Refining News

Oil costs, taxes still key gasoline price components, says API

Feb 22, 2012

Crude oil costs and taxes are still bigger influences than refinery production and product exports in gasoline price increases, American Petroleum Institute Chief Economist John C. Felmy said.

Another Williston diesel refinery studied

Feb 22, 2012

Another refinery designed to produce diesel from Bakken crude oil is in prospect in the Williston basin.

Group to study Russian refining efficiency

Feb 16, 2012

BP PLC and research groups from the UK and Russia have formed a consortium to study ways to improve energy efficiency of Russian refineries.

Horizon bitumen upgrader idle until March

Feb 15, 2012 Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. said its Horizon Oil Sands Plant will be idle longer than initially expected after operations were suspended Feb. 5 for unplanned maintenance on the fractionating un...

Tatarstan refinery to KBR conversion method

Feb 15, 2012 TAIF Group of Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, has let a contract to KBR for licensing and engineering services to upgrade its Nizhnikamsk refinery with Veba Combi Cracker (VCC) technology (OGJ Online, Ja...

Williston diesel-naphtha refinery proposed

Feb 8, 2012 Dakota Oil Processing LLC, Williston, ND, is seeking financing and permits to build a $200 million, 20,000 b/d topping refinery in Williams County 16 miles southwest of Williston to produce mainly ...

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 ...

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