Europe
BP sells stakes in southern Africa fuels marketing
BP has completed the sale of its fuels marketing businesses in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania to Puma Energy. The sale of the final business in Tanzania completed on September 1, the company said.
Shell to invest $800mn in Ukraine shale gas
Shell has agreed to invest up to $800 million as part of a project to extract shale gas in Ukraine, according to officials with both the company and the Ukraine government.
Consider new processes for clean gasoline and olefins production
Advanced technologies promote propylene yield while reducing olefins in gasoline
Maximize propylene from your FCC unit
Innovative use of catalyst and operating conditions increases on-purpose olefin production
Refining outlook: Capacity expansion and rationalization
Many factors are reshaping the global refined products industry, leading to inevitable change
Achieve success in gasoline hydrotreating
Case history describes how to achieve superior performance during FCC gasoline hydrotreating
Understand differences between thermal and hydrocracking
Successful operation and product yields are controlled by reactions at the molecular level
Alternative transport fuels: An Indian perspective
Many factors influence the possibility of new fuels replacing gasoline and diesel
New era in refining — Keys to sustenance
Changes in feedstocks, environmental rules can alter past and future process investments, profitability
Case 64: Averages can be misleading on service life data
Take care when making important decisions on data
- BASF supports European 1,4‑butanediol supply security through increased production in Ludwigshafen 2/16
- Vitol backs proposed $3-billion LNG power plant for South Africa's Durban port 2/16
- HAMR Energy receives additional funding for low-carbon liquid fuels projects 2/16
- NASCAR names POET official bioethanol partner: Becomes first major motorsports series to utilize zero-carbon bioethanol 2/16
- ExxonMobil starts third advanced plastics recycling unit at Baytown complex 2/16
- Geoinform, subsidiary of the MOL Group, signs strategic cooperation agreement with Baker Hughes 2/16
