Maintenance & Reliability
Gasoline unit at Nigeria's Dangote oil refinery to undergo maintenance in June
Nigeria's Dangote oil refinery will shut its 204,000-bpd gasoline-making unit for 30-d maintenance tentatively expected to start on June 1.
Russia's idle oil refining capacity estimated up 50% in March from previous plan
Russia's offline primary oil refining capacity in March was revised up 49.7% from the initial plan for this month to 2.96 million metric tons amid drone attacks.
Marathon to begin planned maintenance at Robinson, Illinois refinery
The refinery's primary crude unit, which processes both sweet and sour crude, will be down for maintenance, including heat exchanger work. The plant's 85,000-bpd diesel hydrotreater unit, 65,000-bpd vacuum distillation unit and 28,000-bpd hydrocracker unit will also undergo turnaround.
Nextchem awarded engineering/technology services contract from SATORP (Saudi Arabia)
MAIRE announced that NEXTCHEM (Sustainable Technology Solutions), through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has been awarded a three-year contract by SATORP – a JV between Saudi Aramco and TotalEnergies – to provide engineering and technology services related to the sulfur recovery complex of SATORP’s refinery in Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
PBF Energy's Martinez refinery (California, U.S.) repairs to cost $30 million
Independent U.S. refiner PBF Energy said it is starting repairs at its fire-damaged 156,400-bpd Martinez refinery in California and estimates the cost of repairs to be $30 million.
Chinese CNOOC to launch $2.7-B upgraded refinery complex
State-controlled China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) is set to launch a refinery and petrochemicals complex later this year, following a $2.74-B upgrade.
Lubrication Engineers to acquire industrial brands and products of Royal Purple
Lubrication Engineers Inc. (LE), a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance industrial lubricants and asset reliability solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the industrial brands and products of Royal Purple (RPI), a leading provider of specialty synthetic performance lubricants and greases for diversified industrial applications.
Improve reliability with predictive maintenance insights
Machine-learning-equipped advanced analytics platforms empower SMEs to solve some of the toughest process problems efficiently, implement effective process improvements, transition from reactive to predictive maintenance strategies, increase productivity and uptime, and operate more profitably.
IT dependencies complicate OT security
Cyber-securing oil and gas automation to ensure safe, reliable and efficient physical operations is becoming more challenging. This article explores the modern yet evolving threat environment, how expectations for cybersecurity are changing, how information technology/operational technology (IT/OT) dependencies have emerged as an important issue in most cybersecurity programs, and how owners and operators are addressing this new issue.
Strategies to resolve process variability via regulatory process control
This article discusses strategies to address process instability for effective process control.
- China's Wanhua Chemical starts operation at new east China cracker 4/4
- Brookfield Infrastructure announces the acquisition of Colonial Enterprises for $9 B 4/4
- PBF restarts some units at Martinez refinery after February fire; fire-damaged units remain shut 4/4
- Japan to curb gasoline prices from June to cushion U.S. tariff blow 4/4
- Evonik presents innovative "Debonding on Demand" concept for more sustainable bonding 4/3
- Oil, gas and refined product imports exempted from Trump’s sweeping tariffs 4/3
