Refining Capacities News

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...

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...

Contracts let for Bataan refinery units

Jan 17, 2012 Petron Corp. Mandaluyong City, Philippines, has let contracts for two conversion units in a major upgrade of its 180,000 b/d refinery at Limay, Bataan, about 150 km southwest of Manila (OGJ, Jan. 2...

Amine regeneration unit starts at Vadinar

Jan 9, 2012 Essar Oil Ltd. has commissioned a large amine regeneration unit in the first phase of expansion of its 300,000 b/d Vadinar refinery in Gujarat, India, after commissioning a pentane-hexane isomeriza...

HollyFrontier to expand refinery in Utah

Jan 4, 2012

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.

Delaware City refinery due hydrocracker

Dec 22, 2011 PBF Holding Co. LLC and affiliate Delaware City Refining Co. LLC have reported conditional plans to build a mild hydrocracker and hydrogen plant at their 190,000 b/d Delaware City, Del., refinery.

Wood River refinery expansion nearly complete

Oct 28, 2011

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 refinery's delayed coker due revamp

Oct 26, 2011

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.

Middle East set to eclipse Asia in refining capacity growth

Oct 21, 2011

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.

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