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Refining

Indonesia aims for B50 biodiesel in second half of 2026

The world's largest producer of palm oil has a biofuel program which blends palm oil with diesel to reduce reliance on fuel imports.

Green Carbon Development selects Axens Vegan® technology for new renewable fuels facility in Texas (U.S.)

Designed for a capacity of 10,500 barrels per stream day (bpsd), the project will deploy the Vegan® hydroprocessing solution to flexibly produce both sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD).

BPCL secures land for $11-B refinery project in southern India

The order said the government has allocated 6,000 acres for a refinery and petrochemicals project costing about 968.62 B rupees and asked BPCL to begin commercial operations by January 2029.

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

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