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Elliott Group to supply compressors for Petrobras refinery expansions in Brazil

Elliott Group has won contracts from Brazilian oil major Petrobras to supply compressors for expansion projects at the company's REGAP and REMAN refineries as well as the new northeast refinery RNEST. The projects will aid the Petrobras' efforts to increase domestic production of high-quality diesel fuel, officials said.

HP Construction: North America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

CB&I has been awarded an additional project, valued at approximately $50 million, for storage tanks at an oil-sands project near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. CB&I’s scope of work includes the ..

HP Construction: Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract from Goteborg Energi AB for the GoBiGas project, a 20-MW biomass gasification and methanation project in Goteborg, Sweden. Officials estimate the ..

Mississippi ranked as world's top spot for oil and gas investment

Mississippi is ranked as the top place in the world for oil and gas investment, according to the opinions of international petroleum executives and managers in the annual Global Petroleum Survey, released today by the Fraser Institute.

Total unloads UK downstream marketing assets

Total has signed a sale and purchase agreement to sell most of its marketing assets in the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man to Rontec Investments, a consortium led by Snax 24, an independent forecourt operator in the UK.

Release of strategic oil reserves: New form of economic stimulus

On June 23 International Energy Agency (IEA) members announced the release of 60 million barrels of strategic oil reserves over a month—the equivalent of 2 million barrels per day (bpd) for 30 days. Half of this amount—30 million barrels—will come from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), which currently holds 726.5 million barrels of crude. The release of 60 million barrels over 30 days will temporarily increase world oil supply by about 2.3 percent.

New diesel hydrotreater from Axens starts up at Ras Tanura refinery

A grassroots diesel hydrotreater unit (Prime-DTM), licensed by Axens, has successfully been put into production at Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura refinery, company officials said on Friday.

Lubrizol shareholders approve sale to Berkshire

At a special meeting on Thursday, shareholders of specialty chemicals firm Lubrizol overwhelmingly approved the acquisition of the company by Berkshire Hathaway for $135/share in an all-cash transaction.

Improve energy efficiency for distillate hydrotreaters retrofit options

KBC Process Technology Ltd.: Milosevic, Z.  |  Shire, T.

Energy conservation is a complex analysis on existing units, but benefits are possible

Rethink planning and scheduling’s role in refinery optimization

M3 Technology: Acuff, C.
Valero Energy Corp.: Swensen, M.

New tools improve prediction of unit feed qualities and yields