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NewsReuters, April 3, 2020A brief loss of power forced Royal Dutch Shell Plc to shut the coker at its 225,300 barrel-per-day (bpd) Norco, Louisiana, refinery early on Thursday, said sources familiar with plant operations.
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NewsReuters, April 2, 2020The global oil refining industry is facing a reckoning from falling fuel demand that is the deepest and fastest ever.
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NewsAmerican Petroleum Institute, April 1, 2020Three leading global O&G industry associations – API, IPIECA and IOGP – have released the 4th edition of the “Sustainability Reporting Guidance for the Oil and Gas Industry,” which provides a consensus framework for reporting on...
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NewsLyondellBasell, April 1, 2020LyondellBasell has informed the engineering and construction contractors it will slow construction of its world-scale propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) plant in Channelview, TX.
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NewsReuters, April 1, 2020Pakistan’s Attock Refinery is operating its 54,000 barrels per day plant at 29% capacity and is prepared to shut the complex in a week’s time if local demand does not recover.
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NewsReuters, April 1, 2020Taiwan’s Formosa Petrochemical Corp plans to operate its refinery at a reduced rate after completing maintenance at some units later this month amid weak margins, its company spokesman said on Monday.
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NewsAmerican Petroleum Institute, April 1, 2020The American Petroleum Institute has published the 3rd Edition of Recommended Practice 571 - Damage Mechanisms Affecting Fixed Equipment in the Refining Industry.
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NewsAmerican Petroleum Institute, March 31, 2020API issued two standards, Recommended Practice (RP) 1182 and the second edition of RP 80, designed to address the safe operation of larger gathering pipelines used to transport natural gas from production sites to larger interstate pipelines.
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NewsBloomberg, March 31, 2020U.S. fuel makers are taking advantage of low oil prices to capture profits while slowing fuel production. Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, and Valero are some of the U.S. refiners that cash in when crude costs fall faster than fuel prices.
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NewsReuters, March 31, 2020The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday found a Citgo partnership liable for $143 million in cleanup costs from a 2004 oil spill in the Delaware River.
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NewsTC Energy Corporation, March 31, 2020TC Energy Corporation recently announced that it will proceed with construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline Project, resulting in an investment of approximately US$8.0 billion into the North American economy.
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NewsRoyal Dutch Shell Plc., March 30, 2020Shell has announced it will not proceed with an equity interest in the proposed Lake Charles LNG project. Accordingly, Energy Transfer will take over as the project developer.
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NewsCBC News, March 30, 2020North Atlantic has decided to idle its Come By Chance Refinery amid growing safety and economic concerns due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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NewsReuters, March 27, 2020Exxon Mobil plans to shut the small gasoline-producing unit at its 560,500 barrels-per-day Baytown, Texas, refinery by early next week because of low demand due to efforts to halt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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NewsReuters, March 26, 2020Oil refiners from Texas to Thailand are bracing for deeper output cuts, bruised by an unprecedented demand shock as more countries lock down and restrict travel to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
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