Construction
Fluor, Sasol to partner on South Africa projects
Fluor signed a new three-year agreement with Sasol to perform small and mid-sized projects as an integrated team at Sasol’s plants in Secunda and Sasolburg, South Africa.
Audubon Engineering plans Colorado expansion
The new office space is located in the Durango Tech Center in Colorado and will provide the necessary capacity to support growing market penetration for engineering services, sales and leadership functions.
Flint Hills contracts Wood Group for engineering of Corpus refinery upgrade
Wood Group Mustang completed the conceptual and front-end engineering design phases of the project and is now providing detail engineering, procurement services, module fabrication oversight and construction engineering support services. Work is being done in Houston and Bogota, Colombia.
PTT awards FEED work to Fluor, Technip, SK for Ohio ethane cracker
The project will encompass an ethane cracker and derivatives units by leveraging the availability of feedstock from gas taken from the Utica and Marcellus shale formations to create chemical products.
CB&I wins early works contract for Axiall, Lotte’s Louisiana ethane cracker
The companies are evaluating the construction of a cracker with the capacity to produce 1-million tpy of ethylene employing CB&I's latest, proven ethylene technology, including highly selective SRT cracking heaters and its innovative recovery section design.
Central America: A downstream outlook to 2020
Due to the growth in the region’s middle class, Latin America has seen tremendous petroleum products demand growth over the past decade.
Proposed US water definition may alter future of HPI
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) proposed Rule 33 CFR Part 328, a regulation intended to redefine and clarify the reach of the EPA’s jurisdi..
HP Editorial Comment: Is the global refining sector growing toward overcapacity?
The global refining sector has been a bright spot for the oil and gas industry for nearly a year.
HP Global: First phase of Middle East refinery projects nearly complete
The first phase of new refining capacity in the Middle East has already come onstream, with more than 1.1 MMbpcd of incremental capacity in Saudi Arabia (at SATORP and YASREF refineries) and the UAE (..
HP Business Trends
To satisfy its growing refined fuel demand, Latin America has relied heavily on imports from the US. Major refinery projects have been announced to curb this reliance, but the drop in crude oil prices has limited capacity expansions.
- thyssenkrupp Uhde completes pre-FEED for HAMR Energy’s renewable fuels project in Australia 8/21
- Europe distillates-diesel profit margins firm 8/21
- U.S.: Indiana's bp refinery restarts after severe flooding 8/21
- Berlin weighs trusteeship extension for Rosneft's German assets 8/21
- Trump administration to rule on biofuel exemption requests, delay reallocation decision 8/21
- TotalEnergies' Donges refinery fire extinguished 8/21
