Refining
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Lyondell Basell delays refining business exit to 2025
Chemical maker Lyondell Basell Industries said that it plans to delay its refining business exit from year-end 2023 to no later than the end of the first quarter 2025.
Mexico's gasoline independence dream sinks in dirty fuel oil glut
Mexico's president took office in late 2018 pledging to boost local output of gasoline while phasing out imports, but so far state refineries have instead set a different course: bumper production of highly contaminating fuel oil.
Fire at India's Numaligarh refinery under control, company says
A fire that broke out at the 60,000 barrel-per-day Numaligarh Refinery Limited in Assam state, India, has been brought under control, the refinery said.
Future refineries in India may be smaller capacity
India will look at building smaller oil refineries because of problems in acquiring land as it aims to raise its annual refining capacity to 9 million bpd.
ConocoPhillips to buy rest of Canada's Surmont oil site, bumping Suncor
ConocoPhillips said it was buying the 50% stake in the Surmont oil facility held by TotalEnergies' Canadian subsidiary for about $3 B, giving it full ownership and elbowing away rival Suncor Energy.
McDermott awarded PMC contract from IOCL
McDermott has been awarded a project management consultancy contract from India Oil Corporation Limited for the Maleic Anhydride (MAH) unit at the Panipat Refinery and Petrochemical Complex, located 62 miles from New Delhi, India.
GenH2 and ZeroAvia sign MoU to develop liquid hydrogen technologies for airports
GenH2 has executed an MOU with hydrogen-electric propulsion developer ZeroAvia to develop liquid hydrogen aviation infrastructure solutions for use in airport environments.
- Essar launches hydrogen power plant at Stanlow refinery (U.K.) 7/16
- Trelleborg partners with Airbus on hydrogen-powered air travel 7/16
- Neste, Mitsubishi Corporation agree on strategic partnership to develop supply chains for renewable chemicals and plastics 7/16
- Vale, Komatsu and Cummins announce collaboration to develop dual-fuel large trucks, powered by ethanol and diesel 7/16
- Mexico–U.S. energy trade value fell in 2023 on lower fuel prices 7/16
- Belarus' Mozyr oil refinery restoring operations after outage due to storm 7/16
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- Alarm rationalization at Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) refineries
