Maintenance & Reliability
Venezuela restarts Carbon refinery's FCCU after a year out of service
Venezuela's second largest refinery, Cardon, restarted its fluid catalytic cracker which had been out of service for more than a year due to a failure and lack of raw materials
India's April diesel exports likely hit lowest level in over a decade
India's diesel exports likely hit their lowest level in over a decade in April as major exporter Reliance cut refining output for maintenance at a time when domestic demand was robust.
Messe Frankfurt and DECHEMA team up for new ACHEMA Middle East
DECHEMA, which organizes the ACHEMA, the leading trade show for the global process industry, launches ACHEMA Middle East in Saudi Arabia together with Messe Frankfurt. DECHEMA and Messe Frankfurt have reached the necessary agreements and the event will be held for the first time in Riyadh in 2026, and then every three years after that.
Top U.S. refiner Marathon Petroleum swings to quarterly loss on lower margins
Marathon Petroleum swung to a loss in the first quarter, the company reported on Tuesday, the latest U.S. refiner hit by lower refining margins during a period marked by elevated maintenance and turnaround activity across the industry.
Methanex announces the successful restart of 1.8-MMtpy Geismar 3 plant in Louisiana (U.S.)
Methanex Corporation announced that its 1.8-MMtpy methanol plant, Geismar 3 (G3), in Geismar, Louisiana (U.S.) has successfully restarted and begun producing methanol following an unplanned outage in late February.
Portugal's Galp restarting Sines oil refinery over coming days
Portugal's Galp will be gradually restarting units at its Sines oil refinery over the coming days after the major Iberian power outage on Monday forced it to suspend operations.
Mexico's Olmeca refinery will restart, halt was 'nothing serious'
Mexico's new Olmeca refinery is ready to restart production, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday, denying that a temporary outage had been caused by sabotage of its catalytic cracking unit.
Crude processing ends at Scotland's Grangemouth oil refinery, redundancies start
Scotland's only oil refinery ceased crude oil processing as of Tuesday, as the site transitions to an import terminal.
Venezuela restarts Amuay refinery's FCC after El Palito halts unit
Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA has restarted the fluid catalytic cracker unit (FCCU) at the country's largest refinery, the 645,000-bpd Amuay, expanding its capacity to produce motor fuels.
Chemical maker LyondellBasell misses quarterly profit estimates on weak volumes
LyondellBasell on Friday missed Wall Street expectations for quarterly profit, due to maintenance downtime and lower volumes in its largest segment supplying raw materials to the automotive, construction and electronics industries.
- 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
