AFPM Q&A-1 Refiners address gasoline processing issues

During the 2016 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Q&A and Technology Forum (Sept. 25-28, Baltimore), US domestic and international refiners discussed trends in gasoline processing operations, paying special attention to topics of safety, isomerization, reforming, and meeting the US Environmental Protection Agency’s more stringent Tier 3 gasoline standards that took effect Jan. 1, 2017. Source: […]

Water constraints drive recycle, reuse technology

Oil and natural gas companies are honing strategies for reducing production costs through effective water-management practices and wastewater disposal options, said a report commissoned by Barclays Research with contributions from Columbia Water Cener. Source: News

Total lets contract for Donges refinery

Total SA has let a contract to Amec Foster Wheeler PLC to deliver front-end engineering design for a project to boost production of cleaner fuels at subsidiary Total Raffinage France’s 219,000-b/d Donges refinery near Saint Nazaire, France. Source: News

Oman-Kuwait JV lets contract for DRPIC integrated complex

Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Industries Co. LLC (DRPIC), Muscat, a joint venture of state-owned Oman Oil Co. and Kuwait Petroleum Corp. subsidiary Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd., has awarded the first of three main packages for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of its long-planned 230,000-b/d refinery and petrochemical complex to be built in the Duqm Special […]

BOEM issues final PEIS for gulf G&G activities

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a final programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) for geological and geophysical activities in the Gulf of Mexico. The International Association of Geophysical Contractors immediately expressed concerns over the document’s mitigation. Source: News