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IEA: Global oil demand growth accelerating

May 21, 2012 After posting near-zero annual growth in the fourth quarter of 2011, global oil demand growth will gradually accelerate throughout 2012, culminating in an increase of 1.2 million b/d by this year's...

RIL taps Fluor for petcoke, petrochem work

May 3, 2012 Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, has let a contract to Fluor Corp. covering project management services for a new petcoke gasification plant and expansion of petrochemical facilities at its comple...

Steam methane reformer starts up in Texas

Apr 27, 2012 Air Liquide Large Industries US LP has started up a 120 MMscfd steam methane reformer in La Porte, Tex., able to supply hydrogen to refineries in Port Arthur, Tex., via a new 85-mile expansion of i...

Repsol opens Cartagena refinery expansion

Apr 19, 2012

Repsol held a ceremonial opening of the expansion of its 110,000 b/d Cartagena refinery in Murcia, Spain, to 220,000 b/d of distillation capacity (OGJ Online, Jan. 7, 2010).

Jacobs gets Afipsky Refinery contract

Apr 10, 2012 Afipsky Refinery has let a contract to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. covering a basic engineering package for an amine regenerator unit, sour water stripper, and an expected 55 ton/day sulfur recov...

HollyFrontier idling Navajo refinery FCCU

Apr 5, 2012

HollyFrontier Corp. reported plans for an unscheduled shutdown of the fluid catalytic cracking unit at its 100,000-b/d Navajo refinery in Artesia, NM, for mechanical repairs.

Essar Energy completes Vadinar refinery expansion

Mar 30, 2012 Essar Oil Ltd. has completed the $1.81 billion expansion of its Vadinar refinery in India with the successful commissioning of the 7.5 million tonne/year delayed coker unit, the final unit to be co...

Thai refinery lets contract for cat cracking unit

Mar 12, 2012 Thailand’s IRPC PLC let contracts to Shaw Group Inc. to provide process design and technology license to add a 30,000-b/d deep catalytic cracking unit at IRPC’s 215,000-b/d refinery in Rayong. No c...

EIA sees East Coast market pressure if another refinery closes

Feb 28, 2012 PBF Energy Co. LLC’s October 2011 startup of a previously idled Delaware City, Del., refinery has helped the New England oil products market respond to closures of ConocoPhillips’s Trainer refinery...

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...

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