Yasref taps CLG technology for Yanbu refinery

Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Co. Ltd. (Yasref)—a joint venture of Saudi Aramco (62.5%) and China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec) (37.5%)—has implemented technology licensed by Chevron Lummus Global (CLG)—a joint venture of CB&I and Chevron Corp.—in the hydrocracker of its 400,000-b/d refinery along the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu Industrial City. Source: News

API outlines initial concerns with BOEM’s draft gulf PEIS

Mitigation measures that would require halting of oil and gas operations when dolphins are in the vicinity and proposed minimum separation distances for seismic surveys running simultaneously are among the American Petroleum Institute’s biggest initial concerns with the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s draft programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) for the Gulf of Mexico. […]

Indiana biofuel firm’s owners plead guilty to tax, renewable fuel fraud

Owners of a biofuel company in Waterloo, Ind., pleaded guilty to conspiracy, fraud, and false statements in a scheme that generated more than $60 million of fraudulent tax credits and renewable fuel credits, the US Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, and Environmental Protection Agency jointly announced on Oct. 12. Source: News