Rafinerija Nafte Brod, operator of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s only refinery, will use technologies from Honeywell’s UOP LLC and ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co. (EMRE) in an upgrade of its 240,000 b/d facility at Brod.

TNK-BP said it will invest $537 million to add isomerization and cat-cracked gasoline hydrotreating capacity at its 340,000 b/d Ryazan refinery about 120 miles southeast of Moscow.

China National Petroleum Corp. has started up a 600,000-tonne/year ethylene unit that doubles capacity of Daqing Petrochemical with the country’s first ethylene plant based on domestically developed technology.

US Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s ranking minority member, has asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate a gasoline price surge in the Golden State.

Technip has received contracts for front-end engineering design of modernization projects that will expand crude capacities of two small refineries in Kazakhstan.

Westlake Chemical Corp., Houston, will perform planned maintenance and an expansion of the Petro 2 ethylene unit at the company’s complex in Lake Charles, La., in first-quarter 2013.

Stavrolen, a subsidiary of Lukoil, has resumed full production of ethylene and propylene at its complex in the Stavropol region of Russia after completing repairs to the ethylene unit, which was damaged by fire in mid-December 2011.

Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. (NRL), which operates a 3 million tonne/year (tpy) refinery in the Golaghat district of Assam in far-northeastern India, plans to increase crude-distillation capacity to 8-9 million tpy.

Lukoil has adjusted plans for modernization of two of its Russian refineries to boost output of gasoline.

Mexico’s Pemex Refinancion has signed a licensing agreement with Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions Inc., Houston, for process design of a delayed-coking unit for the new Tula refinery in Hidalgo, Mexico.

Dutch refiner Zeeland Refinery NV has awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction contract to a unit of Foster Wheeler AG’s Global Engineering and Construction Group to upgrade the distillate hydrocracker at the Zeeland refinery at Vlissingen, the Netherlands.

Rosneft and Transneft agreed to jointly build a branch off the Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean (ESPO) crude oil pipeline linking it to Rosneft’s Komsomolsk-on-Amur refinery. The branch will have a capacity of 8 million tonnes/year.

Sunoco Logistics Partners LP received enough binding commitments from shippers during the open season for Sunoco Pipeline LP and Inland Corp.’s Allegheny Access pipeline project to advance the project.

Phillips 66 reported power was restored to the 247,000 b/d Alliance refinery in Belle Chasse, La., and refinery workers prepared for a restart later this month following flooding to parts of the refinery during Hurricane Isaac, which made its first landfall on Aug. 28 in Plaquemines Parish, La.