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US crude stocks unexpectedly fall as refiners run in overdrive

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The EIA report was "modestly supportive" with the jump in refinery runs and fall in imports "obvious catalysts in causing overall crude oil inventories to decline," a key analyst said.

Wood Group acquires software supplier Ingenious

Founded in 2000 by Vibhu Sharma and Bharat Kamdar, Houston-based Ingenious provides consulting and engineering services to support software sales and non-software-related services such as process engineering, design and simulation, and process safety management.

Fairfax India to invest $300MM in petrochemicals producer Sanmar

Chennai-based Sanmar, a family-owned firm chaired by N Sankar, is one of India's largest producers of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The firm owns manufacturing facilities in India and Egypt.

Lyondell cuts Houston refinery output after fire

A large fire broke out Friday morning at LyondellBasell’s 263,776-bpd Houston refinery in Texas. It is the second major refinery fire in two days in the metro Houston area.

TransCanada delays restart of Keystone oil line serving Illinois refinery

The outage of the Keystone oil pipeline from Canada has forced refiner Phillips 66 to cut run rates and shut units at its 306,000 bpd Wood River refinery in Illinois.

Fire erupts at ExxonMobil’s Baytown refinery

Exxon said the fire was later extinguished, no workers were injured and output would not be hurt at the 560,500-bpd oil refinery, the second-largest in the United States.

Keystone pipeline closure leads Phillips 66 to shut Illinois refinery units

Phillips' refinery in Wood River, Illinois, has shut down a 64,000-bpd sour crude unit and a 16,000-bpd coker due to the disruption in supply, two sources told Reuters.

Magellan, TransMontaigne mull new Texas refined products pipeline

The potential project would include construction of an approximately 150-mile, 16-inch diameter pipeline capable of transporting 150,000 bpd of gasoline, diesel fuel, propane and condensate from Magellan’s terminal in Corpus Christi, Texas, to TransMontaigne’s terminal in Brownsville, Texas.

US reports monthly decline in demand for gasoline, distillates

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Total US oil demand dropped from a year earlier, as demand for gasoline and distillate products weakened, according to new data from the Energy Information Administration.

US refiners delaying clean-fuel compliance may face soaring costs

Larger US refiners are in the midst of a multi-billion dollar effort to cut smog-producing sulfur levels in the gasoline pool by Jan. 1, but those efforts have been met by objections to what the rules mean for refinery emissions and slowed by the high price of compliance.