Refining Operations News

Imperial eyes alternatives for Dartmouth, NS, refinery

May 17, 2012 Imperial Oil Ltd. said it will offer its 88,000 b/d Dartmouth refinery near Halifax, NS, for sale while it studies alternatives for the facility that is not meeting its financial expectations.  

Hess fined for pollution from New Jersey refinery

Apr 25, 2012 Hess Corp. agreed to pay an $850,000 civil penalty and spend more than $45 million in new pollution controls to resolve Clean Air Act violations at its Port Reading, NJ, refinery, said the US Envir...

Eni limiting operation of Gela refinery

Apr 17, 2012

Eni SPA, citing poor refining margins in Europe, is limiting operation of its 105,000-b/cd Gela refinery on the southern coast of Sicily.

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...

Valero again suspending refinery in Aruba

Mar 19, 2012 Another Caribbean refinery able to run heavy, sour crude oil will cease operation. Citing “unfavorable refinery economics and the outlook for continued unfavorable refinery economics,” Valero Energ...

AFPM: Refiners must speak with clearer, unified voice

Mar 12, 2012 The refining and petrochemical industries benefit the US, and their representatives must rebuke misleading criticisms from politicians so that the general public hears the facts, leaders of the Ame...

Inquiry continues into 2009 HF release at Citgo refinery, CSB says

Mar 7, 2012 The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) dispatched a team of investigators on Mar. 6 to the site of a July 19, 2009, hydrocarbon gas release involving hydrofluoric acid (HF) at Citgo Petroleum Corp.’s C...

BP Cherry Point refinery in Washington receives fire repair, maintenance

Mar 1, 2012 BP PLC said it is repairing a fire-damaged crude distillation unit at its 222,300-b/cd Cherry Point refinery at Ferndale, Wash., and also starting maintenance activities on other units at the refin...

HPCL commissions Visakh refinery units

Feb 23, 2012 Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. has commissioned units enabling its Visakh refinery in Andhra Pradesh, India, to produce gasoline with emission standards equivalent to Euro 4 (less than 50 ppm sulfu...

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.

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