http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/s-oil-expects-q2-refining-margins-to-remain-steady-then-trend-upward/ South Korea's S-Oil forecast that second-quarter refining margins will be steady, supported by regular maintenance in the region, then trend upward in tandem with higher demand as the summer season gets underway. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/vitol-to-charter-supertankers-from-us-to-nigerias-dangote-refinery/ Commodities trader Vitol has agreed to charter two supertankers to deliver crude oil to Nigeria's giant Dangote refinery from the U.S. in May, according to a shipping source and fixtures data. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/refiner-valero-beats-profit-estimates-on-resilient-demand-tight-supplies/ Refiner Valero Energy beat first-quarter profit estimates, benefiting from sustained demand as supplies remained tight due to disruptions in Russia and maintenance work at U.S. refineries. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/imperial-oil-gets-q1-boost-from-higher-production-refining-throughput-weighs/ Canada's Imperial Oil saw higher profit in its first quarter on as the integrated oil firm was helped by robust production but saw maintenance activities weighing on its throughput volumes. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/stranded-cargo-shows-credit-challenges-at-nigerias-dangote-refinery/ Chinese state energy major PetroChina has been waiting to unload a cargo of U.S. crude at Nigeria's giant new refinery for nearly a month due to payment issues. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/basf-with-solid-start-to-the-year-ebitda-before-special-items-in-first-quarter-of-2024-slightly-above-analysts-consensus/ In 2024, BASF commenced the year strongly, unveiling first-quarter figures coinciding with the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting at the Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim, Germany, anticipating a comparable turnout to the previous year of around 5,000 attendees. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/crude-and-gasoline-stocks-fell-distillate-stocks-rose-last-week-eia-says/ Crude inventories fell by 6.4-MM barrels to 453.6 MM barrels in the week ended April 19, the EIA said, compared with analysts' expectations in a poll for a 825,000-barrel rise. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/lower-oil-refinery-output-hits-value-of-russias-q1-exports/ Lower production at Russian oil refineries was partly to blame for the continued decline in the country's exports in the first quarter of this year. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/russias-offline-primary-oil-refining-capacity-revised-up-for-april/ Russia's offline primary oil refining capacity has been revised upwards for April by 107,000 metric tons from previous expectations to 4.430 MMt. https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/04/china-refiners-imported-record-amounts-of-crude-oil-in-2023/ Refiners in China imported record volumes of crude oil in 2023 to supply the country’s increasing refining capacity in order to support the country’s transportation fuel needs and produce feedstocks for its growing petrochemical industry.