Refining
Two-day strike to hit output, delivery from Neste oil refinery
A planned two-day strike action by Finnish industrial workers early next month will hit output and supply from Neste's oil refinery in Finland.
Uganda in talks with UAE investment firm over planned oil refinery
Uganda is negotiating with an investment company led by a member of Dubai's royal family to develop a planned $4-B refinery for some of its crude oil.
Water supply restored to TotalEnergies Texas (U.S.) oil refinery
Water supply was restored to TotalEnergies' 238,00-bpd Port Arthur oil refinery in Texas, (U.S.) that has been shut for nearly a week.
Operations at damaged Russian fuel complex seen resuming within weeks
Russian energy company Novatek is likely to resume large-scale operations at its Ust-Luga processing complex and Baltic Sea terminal within weeks, following a suspected drone attack seen disrupting naphtha flows to Asia
Pemex runs Deer Park, TX (U.S.) refinery at 80% capacity amid winter storm
Pemex’s Deer Park, Texas refinery was operating at 80% of its 312,500 bpd capacity, said people familiar with plant operations.
Russia's Ryazan oil refinery reports fire, no injuries
A fire tore through Ryazan oil refinery, Russia's third-largest, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said, quoting emergency services.
Brazil's Petrobras plans to finish RNEST refinery's Train 1 expansion in early 2025
Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras, opens new tab said that it plans to finish expansion works on Train One of its Abreu e Lima refinery in the first quarter of 2025, nearly a decade after the expansion was halted due to a massive corruption scandal.
Drawn by low prices, Chinese refiners hunt for oil to replenish stocks
Chinese refiners are actively booking crude oil cargoes for delivery in March and April to replenish stocks, locking-in relatively low prices and in anticipation of stronger demand in the second half of 2024.
Russia's NORSI refinery may halve high-octane gasoline output after outages
Lukoil's NORSI oil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod may halve high-octane gasoline output after an emergency stoppage at one of two plant's catalytic cracking unit.
Russia's NORSI oil refinery halts unit due to an incident
The NORSI oil refinery, one of the largest in Russia, has halted a unit after an incident, oil company Lukoil said, without giving further details.
- 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
