Americas
Axiall sells aromatics business to INEOS Americas
The Pasadena facility, which began operations in 1979, manufactures cumene. Cumene is used in the production of phenol, acetone and alpha-methylstyrene.
PBF Energy buys Southern California refinery from Exxon for $537.5 million
The Torrance refinery, located on 750 acres in Torrance, California, is a high-conversion 155,000-bpd, delayed-coking refinery with a Nelson Complexity Index of 14.9.
EPA imposes fence-line monitoring on US refiners
Through comments made during the rule-making process, API identified and supported practical, cost-effective opportunities to even further reduce emissions in a manner that recognizes the complexity of the industry, which EPA took into account.
Indorama invests $175MM to renovate, restart Louisiana ethane cracker
The project in Carlyss will generate an annual production capacity of 370,000 metric tons of ethylene and 30,000 tons of propylene, with the facility capable of processing both ethane and propane.
EIA: Distillate fuel oil stocks on US East Coast are higher than recent years
Recently, the combination of increased shipments from the Gulf Coast, higher refinery runs, and imports have boosted East Coast distillate inventories to 5.4 million bbl above the five-year average for the week ending September 11, the highest since 2011.
BASF, Genomatica expand global BDO licensing from renewable feedstock
The revised license agreement allows BASF to build a world-scale production facility that will use the Genomatica process to manufacture renewable BDO.
Badlands NGL secures ethane supply by CLR for North Dakota PE project
The agreement dedicates a long-term ethane supply to Badlands' North Dakota based project: a world-scale, NGL-sourced ethane gas to polyethylene (PE) manufacturing facility.
US chemical business cools in September amid economic slowdown
The pattern shows a marked deceleration, even reversal, over second-quarter activity. The ACC says it is unlikely that industry growth will pick up through early 2016.
Pemex extinguishes heater fire at Tula refinery as worker suffers injury
The fire occurred at a heater within the refinery's Hidros 1 plant, a hydrotreater that uses hydrogen to remove impurities in the refining process, Pemex said in a statement.
REG takes ownership of newly-acquired biodiesel refinery in Washington
The ceremony marked the transition to REG’s ownership of the former Imperium Grays Harbor 100-million gal nameplate capacity biodiesel production and terminal facility.
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- Damaged unit of Iran's South Pars refinery back operating 6/27
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- TES and CPC Finland to develop 500-MW e-NG project in Finland 6/26
