Environment & Safety
Russia's Tuapse oil refinery will not resume operations this month
Rosneft-owned Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea will not resume operations this month, at the very least.
Ukraine hits Russia's Volgograd oil refinery in latest drone attack
Two Ukrainian attack drones struck the largest oil refinery in southern Russia in the latest in a series of long-range attacks on Russian oil facilities.
Sugar Valley Energy bio-refinery to address SAF market
Valley Energy, a new 160-acre bioenergy campus planned in California’s Imperial Valley, intends to produce SAF for the airline industry.
SOCAR ships Azeri BTC oil to Thailand via Cape of Good Hope
Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR is shipping Azeri BTC oil to Thailand via Africa's Cape of Good Hope to avoid the Red Sea.
Power loss forces bp to shut biggest U.S. Midwest refinery
bp was purging its 435,000-bpd Whiting, Indiana, hydrocarbon refinery after a transformer failure caused a plant-wide power outage and forced an evacuation of all but the most essential workers.
Maintenance shutdown planned for Czech Litvinov oil refinery in April-May
Czech oil refiner Unipetrol will perform maintenance on its 109,000 bpd Litvinov oil refinery from April 4 to May 15.
Red Sea worries cause spike in refined fuel prices, but market will adjust
The main impact from the escalating tensions in the Middle East and the threat to ships transiting the Red Sea isn't on crude oil prices, but rather on the heightened vulnerability of refined fuels.
Russia's Novak says NORSI refinery repairs to take at least a month
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that repair work on Lukoil's NORSI oil refinery will take at least a month or a month and a half, in another setback for Russia's oil refining industry.
Russian Black Sea oil refinery fire extinguished
A fire at a Rosneft-owned export-oriented oil refinery in the southern Russian town of Tuapse overnight has been extinguished.
Russia's Ust-Luga port continues crude, fuel exports while Novatek terminal shut
The Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga was exporting crude oil and fuel apart from at Novatek's terminal which remained closed after being damaged by fire.
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