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Pertamina using Honeywell UOP technology to boost clean fuels production
DES PLAINES, Ill. -- Honeywell announced that PT Pertamina will use Honeywell UOP technology to produce high-octane gasoline blending components and jet fuel at its Balikpapan refinery in Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia.
CB&I announces CDAlky technology award in China
THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- CB&I announced it has been awarded a contract by Shaanxi Yanchang Petrochemical Group for the license and engineering design of an alkylation unit in Yan'an City, Shaanxi, China. The alkylation unit will use CB&I's CDAlky advanced sulfuric acid alkylation technology.
Scientific Design awards Indian Oil MEG plant license
LITTLE FERRY, New Jersey -- Scientific Design Company, Inc. (SD) today announced that Indian Oil Corporation LTD. Has selected SD’s MEG technology for their complex in Paradip, Odisha, India.
Amec Foster Wheeler awarded auxiliary boiler contract for US methanol plant
Amec Foster Wheeler announces today that its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract and received a full notice to proceed from Yuhuang Chemical Inc., a US-based subsidiary of Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Company Ltd, for the supply of an auxiliary boiler for its methanol facility currently under construction in Louisiana.
Lured by discounts, US East Coast refiners snatch up Brazilian crude
NEW YORK/HOUSTON (Reuters) -- US East Coast refiners are on a Brazilian crude buying spree, market sources say, displacing West African cargoes as producers such as Royal Dutch Shell and Norway's Statoil sell rising output from fields off Brazil's coast.
Magellan says less diesel spilled in Iowa than estimated
(Reuters) -- Magellan Midstream Partners on Tuesday said about 1,100 barrels of diesel had spilled from one of its refined products pipelines in Worth County, Iowa last week, lower than its earlier estimates.
Army Corps of Engineers to give easement to Dakota Access Pipeline
(Reuters) -- The Army Corps of Engineers will proceed with the easement needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline, US Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota said in a statement on Tuesday.
Marathon Petroleum's profit beats; says to speed up asset transfer
(Reuters) -- Marathon Petroleum Corp reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit and said it would speed up the transfer of assets to its unit, MPLX LP.
Valero says record biofuels compliance costs to continue in 2017
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Valero Energy Corp on Tuesday signaled that record high costs to comply with the US renewable fuels program will continue this year, after the oil refiner was hit with a ballooning tab for the program in 2016.
Honeywell to provide largest Oleflex unit in Europe for Borealis AG
DES PLAINES, Ill. -- Honeywell announced that Borealis AG selected Honeywell UOP's process technology for a proposed plant in Kallo, Belgium, that converts propane into propylene, a primary ingredient for making plastics.
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- bp's Whiting refinery (U.S.) continues to flare days after severe thunderstorm 8/22
- Bachmann introduces latest version M-Target for Simulink 8/22
- U.S. to rule on biofuel waivers, but big oil refiners may need to wait 8/22
- Chinese independent refiner Hongrun buys Canadian, Brazilian crude 8/22
- Ukrainian attack suspends Russian oil flows to Hungary, Slovakia 8/22
