http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://web2v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/05/adnoc-signs-two-strategic-collaboration-agreements-with-indian-partners/ The agreements build on ADNOC’s expanding partnerships with Indian companies across crude, LNG and LPG supply, as well as energy storage opportunities, supporting India’s growing energy demand and long-term economic growth. http://web2v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/05/iran-ukraine-wars-deliver-worst-hit-in-years-to-oil-refining-output/ Tightened supply has forced refiners, traders and retailers to tap crude and fuel inventories to meet demand. http://web2v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/05/vietnam-state-oil-company-urges-us-navy-to-allow-tanker-through-blockade/ The U.S. military has expanded its shipping blockade on Iran to include cargoes deemed contraband, although it has said other oil exports from the Gulf are free to sail through. http://web2v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/05/us-eia-concedes-middle-east-supply-disruptions-are-far-worse-than-prior-estimates/ Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz continues to wipe off millions of barrels of global oil supply every day the conflict drags on. http://web2v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/05/jordan-commits-1-b-to-launch-first-green-ammonia-export-hub-in-aqaba/ Jordan signs a $1-B agreement to develop its first utility-scale green ammonia facility in Aqaba, marking a major step into the global hydrogen economy and clean energy exports. http://web2v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/05/azerbaijans-state-oil-company-redirects-supplies-of-jet-fuel-from-star-refinery-to-turkish-domestic-market/ SOCAR Turkiye Enerji (the Turkish subsidiary of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic, SOCAR) has been fully directing the jet fuel produced at the STAR refinery to the Turkish domestic market in recent months amid the global energy crisis and tensions around the Strait of Hormuz. http://web2v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/05/hungry-to-sell-uae-slips-hidden-oil-tankers-through-strait-of-hormuz/ The volumes are a fraction of the UAE's typical exports before the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran but they demonstrate the risks the producer and buyers are willing to take to free up oil sales. http://web2v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/05/ta-ziz-announces-2-b-in-financing-for-uae-s-first-world-scale-methanol-plant/ http://web2v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/05/equinor-iran-war-lifts-asia-pacific-interest-for-norwegian-petroleum-products-lng/ The conflict has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a choke point for energy exports from producers in the Gulf, especially affecting clients in Asia. http://web2v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/05/taziz-secures-285-b-in-agreements-to-expand-uaes-chemicals-infrastructure/