Refining

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.

Taiwan says private refiners willing to stop buying Russian naphtha

While Taiwan joined the United States and major Western allies in putting broad sanctions on Russia after it invaded Ukraine in 2022, it did not explicitly ban imports of energy.

Indonesia's Pertamina completes oil storage tank construction to support refinery upgrade

The overhaul of the Balikpapan facility is nearly finished and operations are scheduled to begin in November.

Update: U.S. postpones sanctions on Serbia's Russian-owned NIS oil company for one week

The reported extension comes as the U.S. extended a license for Croatian oil pipeline operator JANAF to transport crude to Serbia for another week, as it seeks to complete the delivery of contracted volumes.

Delek sues Marex and BTX over $30 million refinery damage from tainted crude

Delek US Holdings has sued London-based Marex Group and Texas-based BTX Energy, accusing them of supplying contaminated crude oil that damaged one of its U.S. refineries and caused more than $30 million in losses.

AI-/ML-based hybrid modeling for enhanced resid fluid catalytic cracking optimization

Advance GHG performance management: The use of SME-configurable smart assets with molecular-level GHG determination for refining, petrochemicals and upstream operations

Update: Shell to take $600-MM hit from scrapped Rotterdam biofuels project

Shell had approved development of the 820,000-metric tpy biofuels plant in 2021, but paused construction last year and cancelled the project entirely in early September because it would not have been competitive.