Equipment
Marathon overhauling Galveston Bay refinery, FCCU
The 140,000-bpd FCC-3 is scheduled to be shut for up to eight weeks for the overhaul, the sources said.
Digital Exclusive—Valve maintenance: An open and shut case?
Maintaining valves throughout a plant’s lifetime helps to preserve optimal performance, minimize supply disruptions and reduce environmental impacts; however, it can be challenging. Remote locations, extreme operating conditions and the often-aggressive properties of the fluids being transported can pose specific servicing and maintenance challenges.
Verdant Specialty Solutions completes acquisition of Lubrizol’s Elmendorf, Texas (U.S.) manufacturing and R&D assets
The Elmendorf acquisition significantly strengthens Verdant’s position in the oil and gas production chemicals market, expanding its technology offering with the addition of H₂S scavengers, scale inhibitors, corrosion inhibitors, and other specialty oilfield chemicals.
Asia refinery 2025–2026 maintenance/outages
The table lists planned and unplanned refinery shutdowns for 2025 and 2026 compiled through a survey of Asian oil refiners and market sources.
KBR wins green ammonia project by IGNIS in Spain
KBR has been awarded a technology and engineering contract by IGNIS for a new green ammonia facility in A Coruña, Spain.
Hitachi secures order for additional centrifugal compressors for Aster Chemicals and Energy's ethylene export expansion project
This project is a part of Aster's initiative to double its ethylene export capacity and strengthen Singapore's role as an energy and petrochemical hub in Southeast Asia.
Moeve and Honeywell expand strategic alliance to deliver renewable LAB for biodegradable detergents
Moeve and Honeywell has announced an expanded collaboration to scale up production technologies of bio-based linear alkylbenzene (LAB), the raw material for making linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS), the main surfactant in the production of commonly used household detergents.
- 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
