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Delta's refinery sacrifices profits for lower fuel cost

Delta Air Lines Inc. is flooding the New York market with jet fuel from its refinery, sacrificing refining profits in order to lower the carrier’s fuel costs.

Honeywell to provide process automation and safety systems for new LNG facility in Canada

Honeywell Process Solutions will provide full automation and safety systems and serve as integrated main automation contractor for a new LNG facility being built in Eastern Canada.

Column: Valero blames excess winter production for US gasoline glut

The accumulation of gasoline stocks in the US has been driven by excess gasoline production rather than lack of demand, according to Valero, the largest independent refiner in the US.

Refiners and small fuel retailers disadvantaged by EPA biofuels program

US regulators should alter a much-debated biofuels program that disadvantages refiners and small fuel retailers.

BP Whiting refinery reformer production cut for repairs

BP Plc. curtailed production on the reforming unit at their refinery in Whiting, Indiana, for repairs.

Mexico's Alpek to pay up to $700 million for Petrobras' petchem assets

Mexico's Alpek SA de CV is expected to offer up to $700 M for Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA's petrochemicals units in the northeastern state of Pernambuco.

PBF Energy's Torrance refinery running above historic average

PBF Energy’s newly acquired Torrance refinery has been running above its historic throughput rates for the last month after it took ownership of the facility from ExxonMobil on July 1.

LyondellBasell to build high density polyethylene plant on US Gulf Coast

The proposed plant will employ the company's new proprietary technology and is expected to create up to 1,000 construction jobs.

NREL facilitates installment of advanced hydrogen fuel station in D.C.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory facilitated a partnership between The US Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office and Department of Interior's National Park Service to demonstrate hydrogen technologies in the Washington, D.C. area.

Brazil's Petrobras in talks to sell petrochemical assets to Mexico's Alpek

Petrobras is in exclusive talks for 60 days with Mexico's Alpek over the potential sale of PetroquimicaSuape and Citepe assets in Brazil's northeast.