Engineering & Design
Uganda in talks with UAE investment firm over planned oil refinery
Uganda is negotiating with an investment company led by a member of Dubai's royal family to develop a planned $4-B refinery for some of its crude oil.
Water supply restored to TotalEnergies Texas (U.S.) oil refinery
Water supply was restored to TotalEnergies' 238,00-bpd Port Arthur oil refinery in Texas, (U.S.) that has been shut for nearly a week.
Topsoe selected as technology provider for Preem’s renewable fuels plant in Sweden
Topsoe signed a licensing and engineering agreement with Preem, Sweden’s largest fuel company, to produce SAF and renewable diesel, using Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology.
BASF and Inditex make a breakthrough in textile-to-textile recycling with loopamid
BASF and Inditex announced a breakthrough in their efforts for boosting recyclability in the textile industry with the launch of loopamid, a polyamide 6 made from 100 percent textile waste,
Proactive Decision-Making for Emissions Management: The Roadmap to Net Zero
Industry leaders have committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Operations at damaged Russian fuel complex seen resuming within weeks
Russian energy company Novatek is likely to resume large-scale operations at its Ust-Luga processing complex and Baltic Sea terminal within weeks, following a suspected drone attack seen disrupting naphtha flows to Asia
Saudi's SABIC gives go-ahead for $6.4-B China petrochemical plant
Saudi Basic Industries Corp will go ahead with building a petrochemical complex in southeastern China's Fujian province, shoring up Saudi ties with China, the world's top oil importer.
Norsk e-Fuel closes e-fuels agreements with Norwegian Air Shuttle and Cargolux
Norsk e-Fuel achieved key partnership milestones by finalizing substantial agreements for offtake and investment, securing commitments from international airlines Norwegian Air Shuttle and Cargolux Airlines International S.A. to purchase fossil-free aviation fuel.
Azure announces plans to develop SAF-focused renewable fuel production facility in Canada
Azure Sustainable Fuels Corp. continues to reach milestones in its development of a renewable fuel production facility in Canada that will produce approximately 20,000-bpd of predominantly SAF with first production targeted for 2027.
Italy's Eni, LG Chem press ahead with South Korea's biorefinery project
Eni's sustainable mobility unit Enilive has signed joint venture agreement with LG Chem to develop a biorefinery in South Korea.
- Consortium launches study to create a consolidated hub for recycled plastics 5/22
- Eni strengthens its global LNG strategy with long-term supply agreements in Indonesia 5/22
- Breakthrough shows how electricity could replace heat to turn CO₂ into useful chemicals 5/22
- bp's Whiting Refinery offers revised proposal to union in ongoing talks 5/22
- Plains oil pipeline partly shut down after rupture in East Los Angeles (U.S.), could disrupt supplies to refineries 5/22
- Vitol moves to open Mexico fuel terminal years after bribery scandal 5/22
