Crude oil

FourPoint Resources, Energy Transfer to facilitate expansion of Price River Terminal in Utah (U.S.)

The terminal expansion will feature a newly constructed continuous loop track to streamline rail logistics and a railcar load rack capable of loading 140,000 bpd of oil.

Temperature control strategies for distillation columns in the CPI

Czech state lending 200,000 tons of oil to Orlen Unipetrol during TAL work

The State Material Reserves Administration (SSHR) said work on modernizing the pier at the port in Trieste, Italy, where the pipeline begins, was limiting the movement of tankers and restricting supplies.

Taiwan's CPC Corp. shuts one crude unit at Talin for maintenance until November

The 150,000-bpd crude unit and some gasoline-producing units were shut around the middle of September.

Indonesia's Pertamina completes oil storage tank construction to support refinery upgrade

The overhaul of the Balikpapan facility is nearly finished and operations are scheduled to begin in November.

Update: U.S. postpones sanctions on Serbia's Russian-owned NIS oil company for one week

The reported extension comes as the U.S. extended a license for Croatian oil pipeline operator JANAF to transport crude to Serbia for another week, as it seeks to complete the delivery of contracted volumes.

Delek sues Marex and BTX over $30 million refinery damage from tainted crude

Delek US Holdings has sued London-based Marex Group and Texas-based BTX Energy, accusing them of supplying contaminated crude oil that damaged one of its U.S. refineries and caused more than $30 million in losses.

Idemitsu shuts 165,000-bpd Aichi CDU for scheduled maintenance

Its smaller rival Cosmo Oil, a unit of Cosmo Energy Holdings, also shut the 100,000-bpd CDU at its Sakai refinery in western Japan on August 27 for scheduled maintenance, with operations expected to resume in October.

Malaysia's PRefChem shuts both residual fluid catalytic cracking units

The Johor-based refiner is trying to bring the units, which typically upgrade residual fuels into higher-value products such as gasoline, back online this week.

Update: Chevron's Los Angeles (U.S.) refinery down after large fire erupted in jet fuel unit

The El Segundo refinery is the second largest in California and Chevron's second-biggest refinery in the United States. The facility supplies a fifth of all motor vehicle fuels and 40% of the jet fuel consumed in southern California.