Industry News
In order to keep the Inspectioneering community up-to-date with current events and breaking stories, we routinely share relevant, useful, and/or interesting stories related to the topics we cover and the industries we serve.
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NewsReuters, May 18, 2018The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took steps on Thursday to roll back and delay Obama-era rules aimed at improving safety at chemical plants, which had come in response to a 2013 explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas that killed 15 people.
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NewsADNOC, May 17, 2018The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ravago Group to explore ways to upgrade and commercialize certain assets at the Ruwais Industrial Complex in the UAE.
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NewsReuters, May 17, 2018Iran has agreed to build a new oil refinery for Sri Lanka in addition to upgrading its aging 50,000 barrel per day (bpd) state-owned refinery, Sri Lankan cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said on Wednesday.
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NewsPetronas, May 17, 2018Petronas, the national oil company of Malaysia and Saudi Aramco have launched the corporate identity for their joint ventures in the Pengerang Integrated Complex located in Malaysia, namely Pengerang Refining Company Sdn Bhd (PRefChem Refining) and Pengerang Petrochemical Company Sdn Bhd (PRefChem Petrochemical), collectively known as “PRefChem”.
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NewsAir Products and Chemicals, Inc., May 17, 2018Air Products recently inaugurated its new world-scale industrial gas complex within the Integrated Refinery Expansion Project (IREP) of the BPCL Kochi Refinery located in Kochi, India. The facility will generate hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and steam, and will ensure BPCL’s Kochi Refinery can manufacture auto-fuels complying with Euro-IV/Euro-V specifications.
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NewsWall Street Journal, May 17, 2018Oil majors like ExxonMobil, BP, and Royal Dutch Shell are stepping up investments in downstream assets such as gas stations, refineries, and processing plants in an effort to boost profits and expand their customer bases.
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NewsReuters, May 17, 2018Canada is prepared to cover some losses Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd might suffer if a proposed oil pipeline expansion is delayed and thinks other investors are ready to step in if need be, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said on Wednesday.
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NewsKeyera Corp., May 16, 2018Keyera Corp. recently announced the development of a crude oil storage and blending terminal in Cushing, Oklahoma. The Wildhorse Terminal ("Wildhorse") will include 12 above ground tanks with 4.5 million barrels of working storage capacity.
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NewsReuters, May 16, 2018U.S. oil company ConocoPhillips has brought new court actions to seize two cargoes of crude and fuel near a terminal operated by PDVSA subsidiary Citgo Petroleum in Aruba, the Aruban government confirmed on Tuesday. Conoco is moving aggressively to enforce a $2 billion arbitration award over the 2007 expropriation of two oil projects in Venezuela, creating unease in the Caribbean, where many islands depend on fuel produced by state-run PDVSA.
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NewsRichmond Times-Dispatch, May 16, 2018This week, a federal appeals court invalidated a key U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service review of the Dominion Energy-led Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a decision environmental lawyers who argued the case say should halt construction of the contentious natural gas project.
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NewsReuters, May 16, 2018The chief executive of the LNG Canada project on British Columbia’s northern coast said on Tuesday that the company was committed to starting construction on the C$40 billion ($31.1 billion) liquefied natural gas export project this year.
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NewsReuters, May 15, 2018China’s CNPC is expected to start operating an expanded refinery in northern China with an annual processing capacity of 10 million tonnes (200,000 barrels per day) in October, the state oil firm said on Monday
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NewsTrafigura Group Pte Ltd, May 15, 2018The Trafigura Group Pte Ltd, one of the world’s leading independent commodities trading companies, has completed the previously announced acquisition of the majority of the downstream assets of Pampa Energia SA.
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NewsQatar Petroleum, May 15, 2018Qatar Petroleum has invited a group of leading international companies, with extensive experiences in the petrochemicals industry, to submit proposals for partnering with Qatar Petroleum in the development and operation of a new world scale Petrochemicals Complex at Ras Laffan Industrial City. The Petrochemicals Complex will include an ethane cracker with a capacity of more than 1.6 million tons per annum (MTPA) of Ethylene, making it the largest ethane cracker in the Middle East, and one of the largest in the world.
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NewsReuters, May 15, 2018Exxon Mobil Corp plans to carry out work on the coker at its 362,300 barrel-per-day (bpd) Beaumont, Texas, refinery in May and June while a hydrotreater is shut for overhaul, sources familiar with plant operations said on Monday.
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