http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/ametek-land-provides-thermal-imagers-to-large-ethylene-producer/ AMETEK Land has provided a large U.S. ethylene producer with 28 thermal imagers to provide continuous, highly precise, temperature measurements for optimum process control in its four cracking furnaces. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/hif-global-selects-johnson-matthey-s-methanol-technology-for-the-largest-e-methanol-plant-in-south-america/ Johnson Matthey has been selected by HIF Global as the methanol licensor for HIF Global’s $4-B Paysandú eFuels project in Uruguay, the largest e-methanol plant in South America. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/mol-inaugurated-its-13-b-200-000-tpy-polyol-complex-in-tiszaújváros-hungary/ MOL inaugurated its €1.3-B, 200,000-tpy polyol complex in Tiszaújváros, Hungary. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/exxonmobil-completes-annual-maintenance-at-joliet-us-refinery/ ExxonMobil has finished annual maintenance work at the 250,000-bpd Joliet refinery in Illinois and is in the process of restarting operations. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/motion-enters-into-agreement-to-purchase-electricalautomation-company-allied-circuits/ Motion Industries Inc., a leading distributor of maintenance, repair and operation replacement parts, and a premier provider of industrial technology solutions, signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Allied Circuits, an electrical and automation firm. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/nova-chemicals-launches-canadian-center-of-excellence-for-plastics-circularity/ NOVA Chemicals Corporation announced the launch of its Center of Excellence for Plastics Circularity, a hub for knowledge exchange and technology development for the circular economy of plastics. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/vertex-energy-pauses-renewable-diesel-output-to-switch-back-to-fossil-fuels-citing-macroeconomic-woes/ U.S. refiner Vertex Energy will pause renewable diesel production at its refinery in Mobile, Alabama, and convert it to produce fossil fuels instead, citing macroeconomic woes which might persist through next year. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/bp-s-cherry-point-refinery-turns-feedstock-into-renewable-diesel-fuel-here-s-how/ bp is boosting biofuels production to 50,000 bpd globally by 2025. Here, bp provides insight into the company's Cherry Point refinery, in Washington state (U.S.), and the facility's co-processing techniques. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/heavy-oil-shortages-are-driving-up-refiners-cost/ Mexican export cuts and a rerouting of Canadian output are shrinking already limited supplies of heavy crude in the Atlantic basin, driving up refiners' costs with a likely knock-on effect to industries ranging from shipping and construction to Middle Eastern power plants. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/ebara-elliott-energy-to-provide-compressor-for-thailand-s-first-saf-project/ Ebara Elliott Energy, formerly Elliott Group, has been contracted to provide a motor-driven recycle compressor with a variable frequency drive (VFD) for the Sustainable Fuel Development Project (SFP) by TTCL Public Co. Ltd.