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Pakistan State Oil seeks 905 Mt of oil products for September

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Pakistan State Oil is seeking 905,000 t of gasoline and fuel oil for September, three tender documents showed on Wednesday.

Indian refiners tap spot crude market to feed increased capacity

SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI (Reuters) — Indian companies have stepped up purchases of high-sulfur crude oil from the Middle East and Russia in the spot market to feed demand from expanded refining capacity, trade sources said.

Indian Oil plans to buy N. American sour crude for the first time

SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI (Reuters) — India's top refiner has issued its first tender to buy high-sulfur, or sour, crude from North America as it seeks to diversify imports, three trading sources said on Tuesday.

Malaysia's Lotte Chemical Titan raises $878 MM in IPO

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) — Malaysia's Lotte Chemical Titan Holding raised about 3.77 B ringgit ($878 MM) from an initial public offering (IPO) after pricing its shares at the bottom of an indicative range.

Sinopec upgrades 11 refineries to meet stricter fuel standards

BEIJING (Reuters) — China's Sinopec says on Monday the company has upgraded 11 refineries in North China to meet the stricter standards for fuel.

Japan's Idemitsu: No plan to call shareholders' meeting on Showa Shell merger

TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan's Idemitsu Kosan Co said it had no plans to call a shareholders' meeting to vote on a merger with rival Showa Shell Sekiyu after the issuance of new shares, which would dilute the stake held by the refiner's founding family.

Develop reactor internals for optimizing reactor design: High-performance vapor-liquid distributor

GS Engineering and Construction: Ahn, E. S.  |  Park, S. I.  |  Song, I. C.  |  Kim, G. B.  |  Chang, G. S.

Vapor-liquid distributors are a crucial element of reactor internals for maximizing catalyst utilization of fixed-bed reactors.

Design and troubleshoot the orifice chamber in an FCCU

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.: Saidulu, G.  |  Yadav, M.  |  Satheesh, V. K.  |  Sahney, A. S.  |  Bhattacharyya, D.

The fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process remains one of the most important secondary conversion processes due to its inherent capability to upgrade residual streams and its flexibility to maximize the desired product, depending on market dynamics.

Enhanced flash zone design for coker fractionators

Bechtel Corp.: Thomas, C.  |  Spalding, M.  |  Patel, D.  |  Varma, H.

Since the flash zone is the first process undergone by the coke drum effluent vapor upon entering the column, the operation of the flash zone is critical to the operation of the entire coker fractionator column.

Could your facility benefit from a marine terminal assessment?

Carmagen Engineering, Inc.: Blundell, R.

How sure would a terminal manager at a distribution terminal, or a line manager at a refinery or a chemical plant that has marine loading and unloading docks, be that those docks are being operated at a level that ensures long-term safe performance?