Americas
Shell cancels plan to close Convent refinery gasoline unit
HOUSTON (Reuters) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc has shelved a plan to permanently close the gasoline-producing unit at its 227,586-bpd Convent, Louisiana, oil refinery in early 2018, the company said on Thursday.
WGLC '17: Refining women's careers in the downstream: Listening and looking beyond
HOUSTON—On the afternoon of Day 1 of the 2017 Women's Global Leadership Conference in Energy (WGLC), a panel of experts discussed working in the downstream industry as a woman in a senior position.
WGLC ’17: Gender diversity, technological advances and the ‘disruption’ of the energy industry
HOUSTON — Where the state of the energy industry is and how gender and diversity affects it was the focus of Hind Farag’s presentation during the opening session of the Women’s Global Leadership Conference Wednesday, Nov. 1 in Houston.
ExxonMobil, Renewable Energy Group progress in biodiesel research
CLINTON, N.J. — ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group (REG) announced that by utilizing REG’s patented fermentation technology, the companies’ joint research program has demonstrated the ability to convert sugars from a variety of non-edible biomass sources into biodiesel.
EIA: US gasoline demand hits record high in August
NEW YORK (Reuters) — US gasoline demand hit a record in August, delivering a strong end to the summer driving season, according to data released on Tuesday by the US Energy Information Administration.
Oil flat, erases gains as US crude draw shy of API report
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Oil prices were steady in see-saw trade on Wednesday, hitting their highest since mid-2015 and then retreating after US government data showed that the latest weekly draw in domestic crude stocks was not as big as an industry trade group had reported.
HollyFrontier beats profit estimate as refining margins surge
(Reuters) — US oil refiner HollyFrontier Corp reported a better-than-expected third-quarter profit, helped by higher refining margins in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey that swept through Texas.
Venezuela Amuay refinery slop tank overflows into bay
MARACAY, Venezuela (Reuters) — A slop tank at Venezuela’s massive Amuay refinery overflowed this week and products have spilled, polluting the nearby bay and staining tankers, according to a union leader and two refinery workers.
Sustainability and innovation at AIChE annual conference
The 2017 annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers features dozens of parallel tracks for eight days.
2018 Chem Show kicks off in the Big Apple
NEW YORK CITY — The Chem Show opened today at the Javits Center in New York City. The event, which has been held every odd year since 1915, runs from Tuesday, Oct. 31 through Thursday, Nov. 2.
- BASF starts up the world’s first production plant for 3D-printed catalysts in Ludwigshafen 3/19
- Haffner Energy receives rapid bookings for CORE100 clean-fuel production units 3/19
- ABB launches EmissionVision to automate advanced gas leak detection 3/19
- Ebara Elliott Energy partners with NuScale Power for use of advanced nuclear technology to power petrochemical plants 3/19
- bp agrees to sell 12-MMtpy Gelsenkirchen refinery to Klesch Group 3/19
- Sumitomo Corporation, “K” LINE and NYK Line conclude MoU for new build ammonia bunkering vessel operation in Singapore 3/19
