
Refinery
Definition Clean fuels appeared in the 1990s to refers to energies to be used in transportation applications as a substitute of the conventional diesel and gasoline. Since then the wording Clean Fuel has been adopted by refiners to designate the new diesel and gasoline developed to improve efficiency and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and […]
Saudi Aramco extends Jacobs’s FEED on $3 billion Ras Tanura Refinery Clean Fuel and Aromatics project In May 2011 Saudi Aramco awarded the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) to Jacobs ZATE for the Ras Tanura Refinery Clean Fuel and Aromatics project. Located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, along the Arabian Gulf, Ras […]
BASF and Sinopec signed MOU for INA facility in China BASF and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) signed in Shenzhen, China, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to start the feasibility study of a new isononanol (INA) facility in Maoming, Guangdong Province, China. With this MOU, BASF and Sinopc intend to extend their actual cooperation […]
Saudi Aramco and Sabic gives momentum to GES+ Saudi Aramco initiated the concept of General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) initiative in order to enhance the level of competence of the local engineering companies and contractors and to contribute to create more value within Saudi Arabia. Indirectly the General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) is to increase the […]
BP to sell Carson refinery to Tesoro; Sunray and Hemphill gas processing facilities to Eagle Rock BP continues to implement its $38 billion divestment plan of non strategic assets by the end of 2013 in signing two spin off agreements with Tesoro Corporation (Tesoro) and Eagle Rock Energy (Eagle Rock) partners. These agreements cover: – Downstream assets with […]
$20 billion Sadara project takes momentum in Al Jubail With 26 major production units, The Dow Chemical (Dow) and the Saudi National Oil Company Saudi Aramco are building up the world’s largest integrated petrochemical complex in Al Jubail Industrial City, in Al Sharqiya, 100 kilometers northwest Dammam in Saudi Arabia. Dow and Saudi Aramco expect their $20 […]
Gulf Coast to connect Cushing, OK, to Nederland, TX. TransCanada will build and operate the Gulf Coast oil pipeline project to connect Cushing, Oklahoma to Nederland in Texas. This crude oil pipeline is 780 km (485 miles) long and 36 inch large to transport 700,000 b/d of crude oil. This capacity may be expanded to […]
$1.6 billion to build Taizhou Refinery and Aromatics China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), China’s third National Oil Company (NOC), has decided to build a new integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, in east China. The new refinery would process heavy crude oil pumped from China’s Bohai Bay, off north China, the […]