Photo from SABIC Limburg BV.
SABIC Limburg BV Geleen operations showing olefins 3 cracker (NAK 3).
Operations

SABIC to permanently shutter naphtha cracker in the Netherlands

April 22, 2024
Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corp. subsidiary SABIC Limburg BV has undertaken a 3-month turnaround of its petrochemical operations at the Chemelot industrial park in Geleen,...
Photo from ANPZ LLP.
Atyrau refinery catalytic cracking unit.
Operations

KazMunayGas executing repairs at Atyrau refinery

Feb. 13, 2023
KazMunayGas subsidiary ANPZ LLP is repairing the fluid catalytic cracker at its 100,000-b/d Atyrau refinery following the unit’s unplanned shutdown in early February.
Operations

Cenovus Energy reduces downstream throughput guidance

Jan. 9, 2023
Cenovus Energy Inc., Calgary, reduced its expected downstream throughput for fourth-quarter 2022, citing the impact of winter storms at the company’s US and Canadian refining ...
Photo from LLC Lukoil Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez.
Nizhny Novgorod refinery.
Operations

Lukoil commissions Kstovo refinery’s deep-processing complex

Nov. 14, 2022
PJSC Lukoil has completed construction and initiated startup of the operator’s long-planned deep conversion, delayed coking complex at its 17-million tpy Kstovo refinery in central...
Valero Energy Corp.
Vlo Stock 2
Refining & Processing

Valero third-quarter profits more than quintuple

Oct. 26, 2022
The refiner’s leaders say several factors are lining up to sustain demand growth even in the case of a recession.
Photo from Borealis AG.
Borealis Kallo NV’s petrochemical production site in Kallo, Belgium.
Operations

Borealis clears construction to restart on Kallo PDH unit

Oct. 3, 2022
Borealis AG is resuming construction of a grassroots 750,000-tpy propane dehydrogenation plant at subsidiary Borealis Kallo NV’s petrochemical production site in Kallo, Belgium...