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191004 Husky Prince George Refinery

Husky finds buyer for Prince George refinery

Husky Energy Inc. has agreed to sell its 12,000-b/d refinery in Prince George, BC, to Tidewater Midstream & Infrastructure Ltd. for $215 million (Can.) in cash plus a closing adjustment for inventory.

DRPIC lets contract for Duqm refinery

Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Industries has let a contract to Galfar Engineering & Contracting, through a contractor, for work on DRPIC’s 230,000-b/d refinery and petrochemical complex to be built in the Duqm Special Economic Zone in Duqm, Oman.

190930 Husky Superior Refinery

Husky advances Superior refinery rebuild, revamp

Husky Energy Inc. has received required permit approvals to begin reconstruction of its 47,500-b/cd refinery in Superior, Wis., after a fire that broke out at the site on Apr. 26, 2018.

190926 Limetree Bay Refinery Terminal

Limetree Bay advances restart of St. Croix refinery, mooring assets

Limetree Bay Ventures is bringing its single-point mooring buoy into service in October and will proceed by yearend with the restart of the idled and former Hovensa 500,000-b/d refinery at Limetree Bay on St. Croix, USVI.

Enterprise to add PDH plant at Mont Belvieu

LyondellBasell Industries NV and Enterprise Products Partners LP have executed long-term contracts that will support construction of a second propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant at Enterprise’s complex in the Mont Belvieu, Tex., area.

ExxonMobil plans upgrades at UK ethylene plant

ExxonMobil is launching a £140-million investment program over the next 2 years at its 800,000-tonne/year ethylene plant in Fife, Scotland, to upgrade key systems and introduce technologies that will improve operational reliability and performance.

190923 Nnpc Rehab

NNPC to begin full rehab of refineries in January

Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. is moving forward with the long-planned modernization of Nigeria’s state-run refineries in a program that will optimize processing capacities at the sites by 2022.

Sibur lets contract for revamp of benzene production complex

Sibur-Neftekhim, a unit of Sibur Holding, has let a contract to Sulzer Chemtech’s Sulzer GTC technology to license technology for modernization of a benzene production complex at Sibur Kstovo's olefins production plant near Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia.

190919 Chevron Lummus Global Bpcl Mumbai

BPCL lets contract for Mumbai refinery

India’s Bharat Petroleum has let a contract to Chevron Lummus Global—a partnership of Chevron USA and McDermott International—to provide process technology and design for a hydrocracker and lubricant oil base stock unit at its 241,000-b/d Mumbai refinery.

190918 Aramco Sasref Refinery

Aramco completes buyout of Sasref refining joint venture

Saudi Aramco has completed a deal to acquire Shell’s share of the partners’ 50-50 joint venture Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery Co., which operates the 305,000-b/d refinery at Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Eni investigating explosion at Sannazzaro de’ Burgondi refinery

Eni SPA is investigating an explosion that occurred early on Sept. 17 at its 200,000-b/d Sannazzaro de’ Burgondi refinery near Pavia, in Po Valley, Italy.

Pertamina lets contract for Balikpapan refinery upgrade

State-owned PT Pertamina has let a contract to Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd. to provide engineering, procurement, and construction for Pertamina’s previously announced $3.9-billion Balikpapan Refining Development Master Plan (RDMP) project.

Chinese operator lets contract for Fujian propylene unit

Fujian Meide Petrochemical has let a contract to Honeywell UOP to deliver technology services for monitoring of its Honeywell UOP-licensed C3 Oleflex unit, which converts propane into 660,000 tonnes/year of propylene.

190917 Total Hanwha Daesan

Hanwha Total commissions Daesan ethylene capacity expansion

Hanwha Total Petrochemicals, a 50-50 joint venture of Hanwha Group and Total, has completed a $450-million investment project to expand ethylene capacity of its Daesan refining and petrochemicals integrated complex in Chungnam Province, South Korea.