HollyFrontier Corp. will expand crude capacity at its 31,000-b/d refinery at Woods Cross, Utah, to 45,000 b/d with idle equipment from Western Refining Inc.’s facility at Bloomfield, NM.

Cenovus Energy Inc., Calgary, says expansion of the 306,000 b/sd Wood River refinery at Roxana, Ill., is essentially finished as start-up of the expanded coker approaches by mid-November.

Mongstad Refining has let a $39.8 million fabrication and construction contract to Kvaerner for a revamp of the delayed coker at its 200,000-b/d refinery at Mongstad, Norway.

The Middle East appears set to dominate the expansion of global refining capacity in the latter half of this decade, eclipsing Asia as projects there come on stream.

Weakening of the Indian rupee against the US dollar is magnifying losses on product sales incurred by India’s state-owned refiners and marketers under price controls.

Ecopetrol SA has moved into the second phase of a major upgrade and expansion of its 250,000-b/sd Barrancabermeja refinery in Colombia.