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Refining

Asia refinery 2024–2025 maintenance/outages

Planned and unplanned refinery shutdowns for 2024–2025 compiled through a survey of Asian oil refiners and market sources.

Gasoline unit at Dangote refinery expected to restart on October 14

The plant, which began processing crude in January 2024, exported a higher volume of fuel oil in September than previous months.

Vacuum distillation unit ejector-condenser interplay

Graham Corp.: Lines, J. R.

Retrofit hydrocarbon distillation systems using exergy analysis and product optimization: A systematic framework and application to NGL fractionation—Part 1

Bryan Research & Engineering, Inc.: A. Kister  |  M. El-Halwagi  |  C. Duewall

Temperature control strategies for distillation columns in the CPI

Hualu Engineering & Technology Co. Ltd.: H. Li

Executive Viewpoint: The future of SAF: Challenges, adoption and technologies

Honeywell Sustainable Technology Solutions: B. Glickman

Innovations

Czech state lending 200,000 tons of oil to Orlen Unipetrol during TAL work

The State Material Reserves Administration (SSHR) said work on modernizing the pier at the port in Trieste, Italy, where the pipeline begins, was limiting the movement of tankers and restricting supplies.

Chevron working to restart units at El Segundo refinery (U.S.) after fire

Taiwan's CPC Corp. shuts one crude unit at Talin for maintenance until November

The 150,000-bpd crude unit and some gasoline-producing units were shut around the middle of September.