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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released an animation detailing the events leading up to the October 26, 2019, hydrogen sulfide release at the Aghorn Operating waterflood station in Odessa, Texas.

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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released an updated safety video detailing the events from the explosion at the BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, which killed 15 workers, injured 180 others, and caused billions of dollars in economic losses.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a preliminary animation detailing the events leading to the June 21, 2019, explosion and fire at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) Refinery in Philadelphia, PA.

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Lukoil's NORSI refinery was working normally again on Tuesday after a fire was extinguished at its delayed coker unit, the plant said in a statement.

U.S. oil refiners are dialing back operating runs this quarter after sky-high utilization rates last year, and aim to operate at between 85% and 89% of capacity, according to company outlooks and analysts’ estimates.

A workplace incident at the Zeeland Refinery in Nieuwdorp, Netherlands left one person dead, and four others injured.

ExxonMobil is pushing forward with the development of its low-carbon hydrogen, ammonia and carbon capture facility in Baytown, TX. Once complete, the facility is expected to produce one billion cubic feet of low-carbon hydrogen per day.

The European Union’s ban on Russian fuel imports that begins next week is expected to keep profit margins high this year for U.S. oil refiners, executives said on Tuesday, as global fuel trade shifts.

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ExxonMobil recently announced its majority-owned affiliate, Imperial Oil Ltd, will invest about $560 million to move forward with construction of the largest renewable diesel facility in Canada.

The refinery arm of Indonesian state energy firm Pertamina is redesigning its refinery expansion plans to meet shifting demands from a transition towards renewable energy, its chief executive said on Tuesday.

Mexican state oil company Pemex's newest refinery, which is still under construction in Mexico's southeast, will begin to process crude oil in July 2023, the country's Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said.

ExxonMobil is performing planned maintenance on several units at its Baytown complex in Texas, it said on Monday.

The diesel hydrotreater at PBF Energy’s 190,000 bpd Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery is expected to be shut for at least a month of repairs following a fire in the unit on Saturday, people familiar with plant operations said.

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Marathon Petroleum is cleaning up a small spill at its 593,000 barrel per day (bpd) Galveston Bay refinery in Texas City, the company said.

Crews extinguished a fire on Tuesday at Phillips 66's 149,000-barrel-per-day joint-venture refinery in Borger, Texas, and six people were treated for injuries, the company said.

China's Panjin Haoye Chemical Co Ltd has shut down its entire oil refinery and petrochemical complex after an explosion on Sunday killed five people and left eight missing, according to trade sources and a local consultancy.

ExxonMobil in coming days will sharply boost gasoline and diesel production at its Beaumont, Texas, refinery, people familiar with the matter said, completing a $2 billion expansion first considered nine years ago.

Bulgaria can take over operation of Russian company Lukoil's Neftochim Burgas refinery for up to a year, lawmakers decided on Friday in a vote aimed at protecting critical infrastructure and ensuring fuel supplies for the Balkan country.

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Output from Vietnam's largest oil refinery is expected to fall by 20%-25% during the first 10 days of January as its residual fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC) unit has been shut down due to a technical problem.

U.S. oil refiners on Tuesday were working feverishly to resume operations at a dozen facilities knocked offline by a holiday deep freeze, a recovery that in some cases will stretch into January.

TotalEnergies continued restarting the 238,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas refinery on Tuesday after the refinery was shut on Thursday night by severe cold temperatures caused by Winter Storm Elliott.

A large-scale reconstruction has been completed at LUKOIL's Volgograd refinery, including modernization of the CDU-VDU-5 crude distillation unit and the solvent extraction unit.

Pemex's newest refinery will reach half of its crude processing capacity in July, the national president said on Friday.

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Most of the productions units remain shut on Sunday at Pemex's 312,500 bpd Deer Park Refinery due to severe cold weather from Winter Storm Elliott.

Strike action at Exxon Mobil’s 270,000 barrel per day (bpd) Fawley oil refinery in southern England is set to resume on Jan. 9, a GMB union spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Italy's leading private fuel and mobility group IP said on Tuesday it signed a deal to buy fuel and refining assets owned by ExxonMobil's subsidiary Esso Italiana.

Strike action at Valero's 220,000 barrel per day (bpd) Pembroke oil refinery in Wales has caused delays to fuel distribution.

India is considering building several refineries instead of a single mega plant planned with Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), due to challenges in acquiring land, three sources familiar with the matter said.

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A fire on Thursday that killed two people at Russia's Angarsk refinery, the biggest by output in east Siberia, has been extinguished.

A labor dispute at BP PLC's large Rotterdam Refinery has been resolved after unions voted to approve a new collective labor agreement.

A refining unit that turns crude oil into fuel at Venezuela's largest crude processing facility has broken down, three people familiar with the operations told Reuters on Friday, halting production at the key gasoline producing plant.

A California regulator said it was investigating emissions containing higher-than-normal amounts of heavy metals due to an equipment failure at PBF's (PBF.N) 156,400 barrel-per-day refinery in Martinez last week.

Hungarian oil and gas group MOL said on Thursday that its Danube refinery in Szazhalombatta was still operating at 50-55% capacity due to maintenance while the Druzhba pipeline that brings Russian crude was also working with reduced capacity.

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Talks on Monday between management and unions at the BP Rotterdam Refinery (BP.L) were not successful, a union spokesperson said, and labor actions at the large facility will continue.

Unions representing workers at BP's Rotterdam refinery said on Saturday they plan to hold talks with management on Monday, in a possible step toward resolving a pay dispute that has left the plant idled for more than a week.

Exxon Mobil said on Monday that its 390,000 barrel per day (bpd) Fawley oil refinery in southern England is unaffected by strike action.

Workers at BP's Rotterdam refinery, which is currently offline, will not help restart operations unless their wage demands are met, union leaders said on Monday.

LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas, Bulgaria's only oil refinery, may have to shut down if the government does not follow through on plans to allow the Russian-owned business to continue exporting.

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U.S. regulators will require a new Clean Air Act permit for a troubled oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the EPA said on Thursday.

Italy is urging Lukoil to keep supporting its refinery in Sicily until the government brokers a sale, two sources close to the matter told Reuters on Thursday, as looming European Union sanctions against Moscow threaten the plant's survival.

The second largest crude distillation unit (CDU), a reformer and a lube oil hydrocracker completed restarting and were operating on Thursday at Motiva 626,000 bpd Port Arthur Refinery said people familiar with plant operations.

Exxon said on Wednesday it had isolated a unit at its 270,000 bpd Fawley oil refinery in southern England following an incident that led to gas flaring on Tuesday.

Chevron said fire crews responded to an isolated fire inside its 269,000-barrel-per-day El Segundo refinery in California on Tuesday, with no injuries due to the incident.

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U.S. oil refiners this quarter will run their plants at breakneck rates, near or above 90% of capacity, as tight fuel supplies spur high profits and operating rates, according to company forecasts and analysts surveyed by Reuters.

Smaller oil refiners pay more for credits to comply with U.S. biofuel blending requirements compared with larger refiners, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

U.S. refiners are posting strong profits with refineries running at record levels this year, strong export demand amid a squeezed supply due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and plant closings.

The restart of Exxon Mobil’s 140,000-bpd Fos-Sur-Mer oil refinery in France should be completed by the end of the week, a company spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement on Wednesday.

The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) recently released a new video highlighting the safety approach and measures used by U.S. refineries with hydrofluoric acid (HF) alkylation units.

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Equipment corrosion at an oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands presents a risk of fire, explosion or other "catastrophic" releases of hazardous substances, U.S. environmental regulators said on Tuesday, after performing an inspection last month.

ExxonMobil and its affiliates have reached an agreement with Par Pacific Holdings for the sale of the Billings refinery and select midstream assets in Montana and Washington.

A small fire at a vacuum tower and a power blackout halted Venezuela's 955,000-barrel-per-day Paraguana Refining Center early on Thursday, according to six sources close to operations.

Workers voted to end a strike at TotalEnergies' Donges refinery on Wednesday, bolstering the government's hopes the supply situation at petrol stations around the country will rapidly improve.

Oil prices plummeted more than 3% on Friday as global recession fears and weak oil demand, especially in China, outweighed support from a large cut to the OPEC+ supply target.

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Two employees were injured in a fire on Wednesday at Marathon Petroleum Corp's (MPC.N) Garyville, Louisiana, refinery, according to a company spokesperson.

Refinery turnaround season in Europe, plus French strike action, is set to push diesel prices higher and tighten supplies ahead of a European Union ban on Russian refined products which is due to come into force early next year.

Strikes have disrupted TotalEnergies' oil products refining and delivery for the third day as disruptions continue at seven sites throughout France, a CGT trade union representative told Reuters.

BP Plc laid off most contractors at the approximately 160,000 barrel-per-day Toledo, Ohio, refinery it owns with Cenovus Energy Inc.

Italy's Eni plans partial maintenance at its 200,000 barrel per day Sannazzaro oil refinery over six weeks.

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Neste Corporation and Marathon Petroleum Corporation have established a 50/50 joint venture to produce renewable diesel following a conversion project of Marathon's refinery in Martinez, California (the Martinez Renewable Fuels project).

ExxonMobil is gradually shutting down its 235,000 bpd Fos-Sur-Mer refinery in France as a result of ongoing strike action, the company said in an emailed statement on Thursday.

Indian Oil Corp plans maintenance at its 300,000 bpd Panipat refinery in northern India, which includes a shutdown of a naphtha hydrocracker for about 80 days and half of its crude processing for about a month, sources said.

Spanish energy giant Repsol is investing 100 million euros to reduce emissions at its 186,000 bpd Tarragona refinery in Spain, which begins two months of maintenance at the end of the week.

BP said on Wednesday two of its staff were killed after sustaining injuries in a fire at its 150,800 bpd Toledo, Ohio, refinery.

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Finland's Neste on Monday said it was looking into replacing crude oil with renewable feedstock at its Finnish oil refinery, the last one of its plants to use the fossil fuel.

Polish refiner PKN Orlen is interested in taking a controlling stake in the PCK Schwedt refinery that Germany has placed under trusteeship, effectively removing control from Russia's Rosneft.

U.S. crude production and petroleum demand will both rise in 2022 as the economy grows, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO) on Wednesday.

Imperial recently announced a long-term contract with Air Products to supply low-carbon hydrogen for Imperial’s proposed renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta.

BP Plc was restarting production units on Wednesday at its 435,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Whiting, Indiana, refinery, one week after the plant was idled by an electrical fire, two sources familiar with plant operations said.

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Brazilian antitrust regulator CADE on Tuesday approved the sale of Petrobras' REMAN refinery to Ream, which is part of the Atem group.

BP's 435,000 bpd Whiting, Indiana, refinery is shut and undergoing damage assessment following the loss of electrical power and cooling water systems in a Wednesday fire, sources familiar with plant operations said on Friday.

A fire broke out around 7 a.m. (1100 GMT) on Sunday at Port Hamilton Refining and Transportation's shuttered refinery in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, leaving one firefighter with a minor burn, local media reported.

Shell said it had to cut output at its German Rhineland refining facility, which makes fuels, heating oil, and petrochemicals, citing low Rhine levels that have made transporting goods via the river more challenging.

U.S. refiner Phillips 66 on Wednesday offered to acquire the public units of DCP Midstream in a deal that would value the pipeline operator at $7.2 billion deal and bulk up Phillip's natural gas liquids business.

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Baker Hughes has announced it will acquire Quest Integrity, boosting its asset integrity solutions for “difficult to inspect” pipelines, adding capability for inspection of furnace tubes and loading terminals, along with other industrial markets.

Mexico's state-oil company Pemex requested this week almost $6.5 billion in additional funding from the government to pay for works at the 'Dos Bocas' refinery this year.

bp has reached an agreement to sell its 50% interest in the bp-Husky Toledo Refinery in Ohio to Calgary-based Cenovus, its joint venture partner in the facility.

Suncor Energy Inc on Monday said that operations at its 98,000 barrel-per-day Commerce City, Colorado, refinery have returned to normal following an earlier equipment malfunction.

Motiva Enterprises plans to overhaul the second largest crude distillation unit (CDU) and a catalytic reformer at its 626,000 bpd Port Arthur, Texas, refinery beginning as early as Sept. 19, said sources familiar with the company's plans on Friday.

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Suncor Energy Inc is responding to a leak found on the St. Clair River located near its Sarnia, Ontario refinery, according to a local media report on Wednesday.

Chemical maker Lyondell Basell Industries has turned away at least one would-be buyer of its Houston crude oil refinery due for closure in December 2023, said sources familiar with the matter.

LyondellBasell Industries is considering a "very large investment" at the site of its Houston refinery after it permanently stops refining crude oil by the end of 2023, Chief Executive Peter Vanacker said in a conference call on Friday.

Mexican national oil company Pemex said one person was dead and another missing on Friday after an "incident" caused by a storm at the Madero refinery in the state of Tamaulipas.

U.S. oil refiner Valero Energy Corp plans to operate its 14 refineries between 90%-93% of their combined total processing capacity in the third quarter, said Homer Bhullar, vice president of investor relations, during a Thursday conference call.

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PetroChina has launched a 30.5 billion yuan ($4.52 billion) program to expand a subsidiary refinery in southern China into an integrated petrochemicals complex, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.

South African fuel and petrochemical company Sasol Ltd will restart its refinery by the end of July, it said on Sunday, after the company declared force majeure at its second biggest refinery on Friday due to a lack of crude oil.

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Air Products has announced a new $2 billion major expansion project that will produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at World Energy’s Paramount, California location.

Venezuela's largest refinery restarted one of its five crude distillation units on Wednesday following a power outage last week.

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A workers' strike at Exxon Mobil's Esso refinery in Fos-sur-Mer in southern France stopped on Saturday and the halted units are being restarted, the company said on Sunday.

TotalEnergies SE restarted the large crude distillation unit (CDU) at its 238,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—accounted for 79% of the 97 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) of primary energy consumption in the United States during 2021.

Production at Venezuela's largest refinery, which can process about 645,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd), was halted late on Saturday by an electrical fault that caused a blackout, according to five people familiar with the matter.

A fire that broke out at Equinor's Mongstad oil refinery on Norway's west coast early on Sunday was now extinguished, the company said, affecting the unit producing gasoline.

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Chevron is selling its 100-acre Chevron Park office complex in San Ramon, California and plans to downsize while remaining headquartered in the city.

Since the onset of the global pandemic, the United States has lost nearly 1 million barrels per day of oil refining capacity, with more set to be shuttered in the next few years. These are the refiners that have closed or cut capacity.

America's refining capacity fell below 18 million b/d at the beginning of 2022, hitting its lowest level since 2014, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's annual refinery capacity report released June 21.

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says Pemex's new refinery along the coast of Tabasco will reach full operating capacity by next year, despite industry experts saying it will take until at least 2024.

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The new $800 million facility would produce renewable gasoline from wood waste biomass sourced from Louisiana and Mississippi timber operations.

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According to the latest oil market report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), global oil supply may struggle to keep pace with demand next year.

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Chevron Corporation has completed its previously announced $3.15 billion acquisition of Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (REG) following approval by REG stockholders.

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LyondellBasell Industries plans to shut its Houston oil refinery by the end of next year, but could close it sooner if an equipment failure hits major units, according to two people familiar with the company's operations.

On Friday, the EPA issued biofuel blending mandates for 2022 and the prior two years - with this year's number below one proposed in December - while denying oil refiners waivers to be exempt from the requirements.

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Refiners worldwide are struggling to meet global demand for diesel and gasoline, exacerbating high prices and aggravating shortages from big consumers like the United States and Brazil to smaller countries like war-ravaged Ukraine and Sri Lanka.

PBF Energy plans to overhaul a crude distillation unit (CDU), coker and cat feed hydrotreater in October at its 190,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery, said sources familiar with the company’s plans.

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Trinidad and Tobago is in talks with U.S.-based Quanten LLC for the sale of the country's refinery, Energy Minister Stuart Young said on Sunday, more than a year after the government rejected a proposal by a local group to buy the facility.

Striking union workers at Chevron's Richmond, California, refinery voted on Saturday to ratify the latest contract offered by the company, ending a 10-week strike without achieving their goal of additional pay to counter rising health care costs.

Iranian state firms have started preparations to revamp Venezuela's largest oil refinery, the 955,000-barrel-per-day Paraguana Refining Center, four people close to the talks said, following a contract to repair its smallest facility.

Sempra Infrastructure recently announced it has signed a participation agreement with TotalEnergies, Mitsui & Co., and Mitsubishi Corporation for the development of the proposed Hackberry Carbon Sequestration (HCS) project in Southwest Louisiana.

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The United Steelworkers union (USW) filed charges with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Chevron Corp this week stemming from a strike at the company’s refinery in Richmond, California.

South Korea's third-largest refiner, S-Oil Corp, has suspended production of several processing units after a blast at its Onsan refinery, it said on Friday, a step that could tighten gasoline supplies and boost refiners' margins in Asia.

bp intends to invest up to £18 billion in the UK’s energy system by the end of 2030, demonstrating bp’s firm commitment to the UK, and helping the country to deliver on its bold ambitions to boost energy security and reach net zero.

U.S. refiner Marathon Petroleum on Tuesday posted a first-quarter profit above Wall Street estimates buoyed by strong refining margins, as demand for fuel and refined products recovered to near pre-pandemic levels amid tight supplies.

A major Pemex oil refinery under construction in Mexico is running billions over budget and unlikely to come online this year as promised, despite being a presidential priority.

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LyondellBasell Industries interim Chief Executive Kenneth Lane said on Friday that operating the chemical producer's 263,776 barrel-per-day (bpd) Houston crude oil refinery past 2023 would require "significant" capital investment.

Valero Energy Corp's quarterly earnings blew past Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, as margins strengthened on increasing tightness in U.S. refining capacity amid rising demand and lower worldwide product supply.

U.S. oil refiners expect strong first-quarter earnings as margins to sell gasoline and diesel strengthened due to a steep dropoff in refining capacity and crude oil supplies.

Over 100 people were killed on Sunday after an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria exploded.

Chemical maker LyondellBasell Industries will permanently close its Houston crude oil refinery by the end of 2023, the company said on Thursday.

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Refiners are planning to spend the summer increasing jet fuel and diesel production instead of gasoline, traders and analysts said, favoring what have historically been the least profitable parts of the barrel instead of the most profitable.

Negotiators from Chevron Corp and the United Steelworkers union (USW) are scheduled to meet on Monday to discuss a possible end to a strike at the company’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, spokespeople for both sides said.

Dangote's 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) oil refinery being built in Nigeria is due to begin production by the fourth quarter of 2022, Group Executive Devakumar Edwin said on Sunday.

Exxon Mobil Corp plans to complete an overhaul of a gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker (FCC) at its 502,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refinery by April 5, sources familiar with plant operations said on Thursday.

Chevron Corp plans to begin an overhaul of the crude distillation unit (CDU) at its 245,271 barrel-per-day Richmond, California, refinery in mid-April.

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Neste Corporation has completed the previously announced agreement to sell its existing base oils business to Chevron Global Energy Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corporation.

Suncor Energy said on Wednesday it had extinguished a fire at its 146,000-barrel-per-day Edmonton refinery that broke out in the morning and caused one injury.

The crude distillation unit (CDU) at Exxon Mobil Corp's 61,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Billings, Montana, refinery was shut on Sunday by a fire on the unit, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Union workers were removed from a Chevron Corp oil refinery near San Francisco hours ahead of a deadline to begin the first labor strike at the gasoline producing plant in more than 40 years.

A heather fire near Equinor's Mongstad refinery in western Norway was extinguished on Monday without affecting production, Equinor said.

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The EIA projects that U.S. energy consumption will continue to grow through 2050, with petroleum remaining the largest share of energy consumption throughout that period, followed by natural gas.

Vietnam is seeking to build its third oil refinery to meet domestic consumption demand as the country is facing a supply shortage and soaring energy prices.

Nearly 600 union refinery workers began returning to work on Monday at Exxon Mobil Corp’s Beaumont, Texas, refinery for the first time after the end of a 10-month company lockout, a United Steelworkers (USW) official said.

Chevron Corp is buying biodiesel maker Renewable Energy Group Inc for $3.15 billion, in its biggest bet so far on alternative fuels.

Union workers locked out of their jobs at Exxon's Beaumont refinery for nearly 10 months voted on Monday to accept the company's latest contract offer, ceding to a key company demand that it have the right to determine plant assignments.

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An explosion and fire rocked Marathon Petroleum's 578,o00 bpd Garyville Refinery on Monday.

Cresta Fund Management has been working to build the senior leadership team and convert its Come By Chance refinery in Newfoundland and Labrador to a renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel production facility.

Essar Oil UK, the leading UK-focused downstream energy company, recently announced plans to install a new £45 million ($60.8 million) furnace at its Stanlow refinery that’s capable of using hydrogen as its fuel source - a UK first.

PetroChina has started a 33.9 billion yuan ($5.33 billion) program to expand the petrochemical capacity at a subsidiary plant in northeast China and cut refined fuel production, according to a company post and state media report.

South Korean authorities have ordered a production halt at one of petrochemical company Yeochun NCC's (YNCC) three naphtha crackers after a blast killed four people and injured four.

ExxonMobil said on Friday it made a new contract offer to union workers at its Beaumont, Texas, refinery who have been locked out since May.

Mexico's state-run oil firm Pemex has sharply reduced crude exports to India, the third-largest market for its oil, amid preparations for a new refinery expected to absorb more of its output, according to data and people familiar with the matter.

Marathon Petroleum's 593,000 bpd Galveston Bay Refinery and Valero Energy Corp's 225,000 bpd Texas City Refinery were knocked out of production on Friday by a citywide power outage, according to the Texas City emergency management department.

The Findlay, Ohio-based company said its refining and marketing margins more than doubled during the quarter amid a rebound in demand after a pandemic-induced slump.

Exxon said it is further streamlining its business structure by combining chemical and downstream companies and centralizing technology and engineering, and other support services, to better support customers, enhance performance, and grow value.

LyondellBasell Industries said its Houston refinery would be a better fit with a larger oil processing company and that a sales effort continues. LyondellBasell hopes within a few months to reveal the outcome of its strategic review of the plant.

Marathon Petroleum, the largest refiner in the United States, is evaluating a conversion of Phillips 66’s Alliance, Louisiana, refinery into a renewable fuel plant, according to people familiar with the matter.

Manufacturing defects involving certain pipelines components accounted for less than 2 percent (23 of 1,529) of all accidents on gas and hazardous liquid interstate transmission pipelines from 2016 through 2020, according to GAO's analysis.

According to the EIA, U.S. fossil fuel production is expected to continue rising in both 2022 and 2023, surpassing production in 2019, to reach a new record in 2023.

Shell has completed the sale of its interest in Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership, a 50-50 joint venture between Shell Oil Company and P.M.I. Norteamerica, S.A. De C.V. (a subsidiary of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex) for $596 million.

ExxonMobil and SABIC recently announced the successful startup of Gulf Coast Growth Ventures world-scale manufacturing facility in San Patricio County, Texas.

The United Steelworkers union (USW) on Friday said proposals by energy giant BP would undermine its 56-year-old national program for refinery and chemical plant worker contracts.

Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos on Thursday signed a long-term crude supply contract with Royal Dutch Shell Plc as part of its acquisition of the Deer Park refinery in Texas.

Becht is pleased to introduce Becht Industrial Group to its trusted clients. Becht Industrial Group (BIG) was formed in 2021 as a mechanical contractor specializing in turnarounds, major maintenance activities, and other schedule-driven projects.

ExxonMobil is expanding its interests in biofuels, acquiring a 49.9% stake in Biojet AS, a Norwegian biofuels company that plans to convert forestry and wood-based construction waste into lower-emissions biofuels and biofuel components.

A California state appeals court on Monday denied Motiva Enterprises' request for insurance coverage for a settlement with workers injured in a 2017 fire at its 607,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur, Texas refinery.

Exxon Mobil Corp has rejected a recent proposal by the United Steelworkers union (USW) to end an eight-month lockout of about 600 workers at the company’s Beaumont, Texas, refinery, the company said.

Calumet has closed $50 million in project financing for the construction of a renewable hydrogen plant in Great Falls, Montana.

A blaze has been put out at the Antipinsky oil refinery, Russia's largest independent oil-processing plant, the Emergency Ministry in West Siberia's Tyumen region said on Tuesday.

HollyFrontier Corp's fourth-quarter throughput will be lower than forecast, hit by weather and turnaround setbacks at refineries in Washington, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, the company warned on Monday.

TotalEnergies SE shut a gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker (FCC) and small crude distillation unit (CDU) at its 225,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur refinery in Texas on Saturday, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Exxon Mobil Corp said on Monday its Baytown, Texas, refinery continued to operate at reduced rates following a fire on Dec. 23, and the unit involved remained shut down.

Oil prices rose more than 2% on Monday to the highest level since late November on hopes that the Omicron coronavirus variant will have a limited impact on global demand in 2022, even as surging cases caused flight cancellations.

A Texas judge on Tuesday ordered Exxon Mobil Corp to preserve evidence from a December 23rd fire at its Baytown refinery that injured four workers, Potts Law Firm, which is investigating the incident, said.

Mexican officials recently announced that the U.S. government has authorized Pemex's purchase of Royal Dutch Shell's controlling interest in the Deer Park Refinery outside of Houston, Texas.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved the $62 million sale of Limetree Bay refinery to a Jamaican oil storage company that intends to restart the refinery.

Following the restart of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Parkland has begun ramping-up processing operations at its 55,000 bpd Burnaby Refinery in British Columbia.

After a year and a half of Covid-related demand destruction, an onslaught of hurricanes, and a deadly freeze on the Gulf Coast, the U.S. refining market seems to be turning the corner.

According to data from the EIA, U.S. jet fuel inventories are at their lowest levels since 2014 due to reduced production and increasing demand.

ExxonMobil Chemical Company has acquired California-based Materia, Inc., a technology company that has pioneered the development of a Nobel prize-winning technology for manufacturing a new class of materials.

Aramco announces $15.5 billion landmark gas pipeline deal with global consortium led by BlackRock Real Assets and Hassana Investment Company.

ADNOC and GE to jointly develop a decarbonization roadmap that includes reducing carbon emissions from gas turbines used to power ADNOC’s downstream and industry operations.

Aramco recently announced its entry into Saudi Arabia’s domestic lubricants market, offering consumers a new line of lubricant products under the ORIZON® brand.

INEOS FPS has announced plans to deploy innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven optimization technology at its Kinneil Terminal in Grangemouth that will deliver further carbon emissions reductions from its operations.

Mitsubishi Corp is looking to sell a fuel terminal that provides transportation fuels which meet California's stringent emissions requirements, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

TotalEnergies SE (TTEF.PA) began restarting the small crude distillation unit (CDU) at its 225,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery on Wednesday, sources familiar with plant operations said.

A U.S. national security review has delayed the sale of Royal Dutch Shell's (RDSa.L) controlling interest in a Texas refinery to Mexico's national oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Shell said on Tuesday.

A large fire broke out at Toledo Refining Company in Oregon, Ohio on Tuesday. Company officials confirmed everyone is safe and has been accounted for at the site.

Refining New Zealand has confirmed the company will transition its Marsden Point Refinery to an import-only fuel terminal beginning in April 2022, after securing long-term supply agreements with its key customers.

Royal Dutch Shell has halved its crude processing capacity at its Singapore hub and reduced fuel exports, executives said on Tuesday, as the major transits from fossil fuels to cut emissions and meet global low-carbon energy needs.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed giving oil refiners more time to prove compliance with the nation's 2020 and 2021 biofuel blending mandates.

The shuttered Limetree Bay refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands received a $20 million stalking horse bid from a company looking to restart the facility, according to a Sunday court filing in a Texas bankruptcy court.

Sri Lanka has temporarily shut its only oil refinery as part of efforts to manage dwindling foreign exchange reserves, the energy minister said on Tuesday, triggering long queues at petrol stations.

A fire at Pertamina's refinery complex in Cilacap, Central Java province, has been fully extinguished without disrupting production activity, the chief executive of the Indonesian energy company said on Sunday.

Shell and Baker Hughes are collaborating to accelerate the global energy transition by helping each other achieve their respective commitments for net-zero carbon emissions and advancing solutions to decarbonize energy and industrial sectors.

Over the next six years, ExxonMobil plans to invest more than $15 billion on lower greenhouse gas emission initiatives.

Phillips 66 recently announced it plans to convert its Alliance Refinery in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, to a terminal facility. The conversion is expected to take place in 2022.

ExxonMobil has made a final investment decision to proceed with a multi-billion dollar chemical complex in the Dayawan Petrochemical Industrial Park in Huizhou, Guangdong Province in China.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is issuing a final rule that expands Federal pipeline safety oversight to all onshore gas gathering pipelines.

Royal Dutch Shell said on Thursday it plans to shift its Shell Rheinland refinery at Wesseling in Germany away from crude oil and towards low or zero-carbon products from 2025.

HollyFrontier Corporation has completed its previously announced acquisition of the Puget Sound Refinery, the on-site cogeneration facility and related logistics assets, from Shell for aggregate cash consideration of $613.6 million.

Shell plans to begin restarting several major processing units at its 230,611 bpd Norco Refinery in the coming week after being idled for two months by Hurricane Ida.

U.S. demand for crude among refiners making gasoline and diesel is surging and crude oil tanks at the Cushing, Oklahoma storage and delivery hub for U.S. crude futures are more depleted than they have been in the last 3 years

Oil refiners are ramping up output to meet a synchronized uptick in global demand, but plant maintenance and high natural gas prices are expected to constrain supply in the fourth quarter.

Japan's Mitsubishi Corp says it will invest 2 trillion yen ($17.54 billion) by 2030 in alternative energies such as renewables and hydrogen to drive its decarbonization efforts and cut emissions.

LyondellBasell plans to make upgrades to equipment and perform compliance measures at six of its U.S. chemical sites in order to reduce air pollution.

Essar Oil recently announced plans to build two blue hydrogen production hubs at its Stanlow Manufacturing Complex in Ellesmere Port for around $1 Billion.

Japan's biggest refiner, Eneos Holdings Inc, said on Monday it would buy Japan Renewable Energy for about $1.8 billion to expand its low-carbon business, joining a list of major global companies moving away from climate-changing fossil fuels.

TotalEnergies SE plans to begin restarting the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker unit at its 225,500 barrel-per-day Port Arthur, Texas, refinery by Oct. 14, said sources familiar with plant operations on Thursday.

Vietnam’s Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical is back running at full capacity to meet a rising demand for refined fuel products, the company said, as coronavirus movement restrictions ease.

City of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has welcomed the return of the Reuters Events Downstream USA 2021 conference and exhibition to the city.

A chemical plant unit will lead the restart of Royal Dutch Shell's (RDSa.L) Norco, Louisiana, refinery and chemical plant complex in mid-October following repairs from Hurricane Ida, said sources familiar with plant operations.

bp plans to invest $269 million in three projects at its Cherry Point Refinery in Washington state, aimed at improving the refinery’s efficiency, reducing its carbon dioxide emissions, and increasing its renewable diesel production capability.

Crews at the second largest U.S. refinery were containing crude oil gushing from a storage tank at the Houston-area facility on Wednesday, a company spokesman said.

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French oil major TotalEnergies' Feyzin refinery was hit by a fire overnight, but the fire has been rapidly brought under control and nobody has been hurt, the company said in a statement on Monday.

Libya's unity government and the National Oil Corp (NOC) said on Sunday they would build a new refinery in the south that was originally planned in 1980.

ExxonMobil Corp on Wednesday offered its first concession in a new contract proposal to locked-out workers at its Beaumont, Texas, refinery and lube oil plant to include some seniority protection.

Shell is tentatively planning the first restart of a production unit at its 230,611 bpd Norco, Louisiana, refinery for mid-October following Hurricane Ida.

Houston-based oil producer Hilcorp is evaluating Phillips 66's refinery in Alliance, Louisiana, for conversion into an oil export terminal, said four sources familiar with the matter, a move that would eliminate it as a source of motor fuels.

In just 6 weeks the world’s largest meeting of downstream decision-makers returns to Houston, Downstream USA 2021 (Oct 12-15, Virtual ǀ Oct 21-22, Houston).

Sasol recently announced its updated strategy that commits it to be at net zero emissions by 2050. This is in line with Sasol’s commitment to accelerate its transition to a low carbon world in support of the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

Marathon Petroleum Corp on Monday said its 363,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Los Angeles, California refinery experienced a power loss on Friday after an earthquake struck the region.

Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) recently stated that its petrochemical joint venture with ExxonMobil near Corpus Christi, Texas, has begun commissioning activities ahead of its expected fourth-quarter start-up.

Shell will build an 820,000-tonnes-a-year biofuels facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Once built, the facility will be among the biggest in Europe to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel made from waste.

Phillips 66's 255,600-barrel-per-day (bpd) Alliance, Louisiana, refinery faces a monthslong shutdown for repairs following flooding from Hurricane Ida, sources familiar with plant operations said on Friday.

LyondellBasell has announced it is weighing strategic options for its Gulf Coast-based Refining Segment, including a potential sale.

Damage to oil production facilities in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico has kept output largely halted, however four Louisiana refineries, accounting for 1.3 million bpd of U.S. refining capacity, have initiated restart processes.

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Bunge North America, Inc. have announced a memorandum of understanding of a proposed 50/50 joint venture to help meet the demand for renewable fuels and to develop lower carbon intensity feedstocks.

Following Hurricane Ida, analysts said it could take 2-3 weeks to restart producing platforms and fully resume output at Louisiana refineries. Restoring power, critical to refineries, also could take weeks, utilities officials said.

ExxonMobil Corp is cutting production at its Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refinery to 50% of its 520,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity ahead of the expected landfall of Hurricane Ida on Sunday, sources familiar with plant operations said on Saturday.

Petrobras has reached an agreement with Ream Participações S.A. to sell its Isaac Sabbá Refinery (REMAN) and associated logistics assets for $189.5 million.

Phillips 66 has put its 255,000 bpd Alliance Refinery in Belle Chasse, Louisiana up for sale amid continued losses and an uncertain future for motor fuels.

ExxonMobil Corp said a small debris fire near an out-of-service tank was quickly extinguished at its 369,024 barrel-per-day (bpd) Beaumont, Texas, refinery on Tuesday.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released an animation detailing the events leading up to the October 26, 2019, hydrogen sulfide release at the Aghorn Operating waterflood station in Odessa, Texas. The release fatally injured...

Diesel and gasoline production was cut by about a third at Marathon Petroleum Corp’s 593,000 bpd Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, following a key compressor outage on Thursday, sources familiar with plant operations said on Friday.

Oil and gas producers in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico have consolidated at a faster rate during the pandemic, new government data shows, as crashing prices squeezed out smaller drillers who had been seen as the industry’s future.

Exxon Mobil Corp, along with Chevron Corp, is seeking to bulk up in the burgeoning renewable fuels space by finding ways to make such products at existing facilities, sources familiar with the efforts said.

The process of decommissioning the shuttered Limetree Bay refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands will take several months, the company's owner told a Texas bankruptcy court on Monday.

HollyFrontier and Holly Energy Partners are acquiring Sinclair Oil in a deal valued at approximately $2.6B that will include Sinclair's branded marketing business, refineries, renewable diesel business, and pipeline and terminal assets.

A contractor sued LyondellBasell Industries in May, alleging lax safety measures led to a workplace accident at the same plant that leaked chemicals this week, killing two contractors and injuring 30 workers.

Private equity firm Cresta Fund Management has agreed to buy a controlling stake in the idled 135,000 bpd Come-by-Chance refinery with the aim of converting it to renewable fuels production.

Oil slumped $5 a barrel on Monday, closing out its worst day since March, after an OPEC+ agreement to boost output stoked fears of a surplus just as rising COVID-19 infections once again threaten demand.

Linde recently started up its newest liquid hydrogen plant in La Porte, Texas, reinforcing the company's robust supply network of plants in the United States.

SAPREF, South Africa’s largest refinery located in the east coast port city of Durban, has been temporarily shut down as the country struggles with mass looting and the worst violence in years.

Iraq has selected China's state-run CNCEC to build a new 300,000 bpd oil refinery and petrochemical plant at the port of Fao on the Gulf.

To meet increasing demand for refining catalysts, Haldor Topsoe recently announced it will build a 15,000 ton per year hydroprocessing catalyst plant at the company’s existing Bayport production site in Pasadena, Texas.

Marathon Petroleum Corp is restarting a reformer at its 593,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, said sources familiar with plant operations on Thursday.

Chevron is considering permanently closing the gasoline-producing FCC at its 112,229 bpd Pasadena, Texas refinery as part of a possible reconfiguration of the plant, said sources familiar with the company’s deliberations.

Shell has reached an agreement with Alcmene GmbH (part of the Liwathon Group) for the sale of its non-operated 37.5% shareholding in the 220,000 bpd PCK Schwedt Refinery in Germany.

U.S. fossil fuel consumption in 2020 fell by 9% to its lowest levels in nearly 30 years.

Royal Dutch Shell recently started up Europe’s largest polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) hydrogen electrolyser at the company's Energy and Chemicals Park in Rheinland, Germany, producing green hydrogen.

A blast and fire on Friday at Romania's biggest crude oil refinery killed one person and injured five others, authorities and the company which runs the Petromidia plant on the Black Sea said.

Shell and Rolls-Royce recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which aims to support the decarbonization of the aviation industry and their progress towards net zero emissions.

ExxonMobil’s Beaumont, Texas refinery is operating at about 60% of its 369,024 bpd capacity as a lockout of union workers nears the end of its ninth week, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company recently announced that Reliance Industries Ltd. has signed an agreement to join a new world-scale chlor-alkali, ethylene dichloride, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production facility at TA’ZIZ in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi.

Although Shell has divested or idled its other crude refineries in the States, the company plans to keep its Norco, Louisiana Refinery due to its importance in the supply chain for Shell's nearby chemical plants.

U.S. refining capacity last year fell 4.5% to 18.13 million barrels per day (bpd) from a record 18.98 million bpd a year earlier, the U.S. government reported on Friday, reflecting weak demand for motor fuels during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The scheduled maintenance turnaround at Neste’s Porvoo refinery in Finland is now successfully completed and production has started at the refinery.

Reliance Industries, operator of the world's biggest refining complex at Jamnagar in western India, will invest $10.1 billion in clean energy over three years in a drive to become a net carbon zero company by 2035.

Russia's second-largest oil producer Lukoil plans to invest $3 billion in production of petrochemicals within the next 6 years.

Exxon restarted the small crude distillation unit at its 502,500 barrel-per-day Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refinery on Thursday, following a month of planned maintenance work.

Despite road traffic being largely back to levels seen before the pandemic, U.S. gasoline production is currently outpacing demand.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc completed restarting the second stage of the hydrocracker at its 227,400 barrel-per-day (bpd) Norco, Louisiana, refinery, sources familiar with plant operations said on Tuesday.

Equinor has entered into an agreement with the Klesch Group for the sale of its refining business in Denmark, including its Kalundborg refinery, Hedehusene terminal, and associated infrastructure and industrial property.

A fire on the small hydrocracking unit was extinguished on Thursday afternoon at Valero Energy Corp's 335,000 barrel-per-day Port Arthur, Texas, refinery.

Reliance Industries forced to shut FCCU at Jamnagar Refinery for maintenance.

ExxonMobil recently announced that the company will move forward with a $247 million investment into capital improvements at its 500,000 bpd Baton Rouge Refinery.

Dow recently announced plans to build an integrated MDI distillation and prepolymers facility at its world-scale manufacturing site in Freeport, Texas.

Multiple units have reportedly been shut at Valero Energy Corp's 89,000 barrel-per-day Three Rivers Refinery following a fire on Sunday.

The hydrocracker at Royal Dutch Shell Plc's 227,400 barrel-per-day Norco, Louisiana, refinery was partially shut on Tuesday because of a malfunction, said sources familiar with plant operations

Eneos Corporation, Japan's biggest refiner, is dealing with outages and maintenance events at several of its refineries.

U.S. weekly refinery utilization rates last week rose to 88.7%, the highest since February 2020, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data released on Thursday.

Absorbing refining business technology and expertise now, analysts say, holds the key to the success of Pemex's $596 million deal to acquire Shell's stake in the Deer Park Refinery.

A leak in a liquid gas pipeline sparked a fire at the Tondguyan oil refinery in Tehran on Wednesday.

The American Petroleum Institute, with support from members and other industry organizations, has published the "Oil and Natural Gas Industry Preparedness Handbook" to help those on the ground manage and mitigate disruptive events, like hurricanes.

Top Asian refiner Sinopec Corp said on Tuesday it had started a 5.17 billion yuan ($811 million) refinery upgrade at a subsidiary plant in eastern China that aims to produce cleaner fuels and boost output of higher-value chemicals.

Total has changed its name to TotalEnergies and adopted a new visual identity to embody a broad energy company committed to producing and providing energies that are ever more affordable, reliable and clean.

Shell has agreed to sell its Mobile, AL refinery to Vertex Energy for $75 million in cash, plus the value of the hydrocarbon inventory.

State run Hindustan Petroleum has shut a 70,000 barrel per day (bpd) crude unit at its Vizag refinery in Southern India after a fire broke out at about 15:00 pm local time (0930 GMT) on Tuesday, the company said in a statement.

The US Chemical Safety Board has released its final investigation report into the October 26, 2019 hydrogen sulfide (H2S) release that fatally injured two people at the Aghorn Operating, Inc. waterflood station in Odessa, Texas.

Shell has agreed to sell the company's controlling interest in its 340,000 bpd Deer Park Refinery to partner Pemex for about $596 million, the latest move by the European oil major to cut its global refining footprint.

Brazil’s Petrobras said on Monday in a securities filing that it will invest $300 million through 2025 to improve the efficiency of its refineries, an initiative the company is calling RefTOP.

Royal Dutch Shell was still evaluating plans for an idled Louisiana oil refinery, the company said on Monday, after a Baton Rouge investor said over the weekend his $1.25 billion offer was not accepted.

U.S. gasoline prices are rising strongly, pushing refineries to maximize gasoline production while margins are high.

The U.S. EPA's biofuel blending mandates for this year and next are likely to be in line with those of 2020 as the agency accounts for weaker fuel demand since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, three sources familiar with the matter said.

India's Hindustan Petroleum Corp.'s Mumbai refinery will start full scale operation at a higher capacity of 190,000 bpd by end-June or in July, its chairman M. K. Surana said on Thursday.

Four U.S. Gulf Coast refineries slowed production on Tuesday as heavy rains fell, flooding areas across East Texas and Louisiana this week.

Japanese refiners plan to sell assets and speed structural reform and overseas expansion as fuel demand is expected to fall at a faster pace due to a prolonged impact from the COVID-19 pandemic and an accelerating global decarbonization trend.

Aramco, Siemens Energy and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have launched a co-led report on cyber resilience in the oil and gas industry.

Australia has agreed to pay its last two oil refineries up to USD $1.8 billion through 2030 to keep the struggling plants open and protect the country's fuel security.

Chevron Corp said a fire that broke out at its 245,271 barrel-per-day Richmond, California refinery on Friday morning has been extinguished and no injuries were reported.

The troubled Limetree Bay oil refinery in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, has suspended operations after a malfunction sent oil raining onto a nearby neighborhood, the company said late Wednesday.

Total SE reduced gasoline production on Monday at its 225,500 bpd Port Arthur, Texas, refinery because of the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline, said sources familiar with plant operations.

HollyFrontier Corporation recently announced that it has agreed to acquire the Puget Sound Refinery, the on-site cogeneration facility and related logistics assets, from Shell for a purchase price of $350 million, plus hydrocarbon inventory.

A renewable diesel unit at CVR Energy's Wynnewood, Oklahoma, refinery will not be in service until the end of the third quarter due to severe weather in February and delays in equipment deliveries, the company said on Tuesday.

Marathon Petroleum issues alert after confirming a hydrofluoric acid leak at its 585,000 barrel-per-day Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas on Tuesday.

U.S. refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp reported a smaller-than-expected first quarter loss on Tuesday helped by a jump in refining margin and COVID-19 vaccine rollouts, which drove a rebound in fuel demand.

The EPA has issued a notice of violation to Limetree Bay Terminals for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act for failing to operate five sulfur dioxide monitors in the communities surrounding its St. Croix refinery.

Disputes over seniority rights and pay for union workers at Exxon Mobil Corp’s Beaumont, Texas, refinery led to Saturday’s first lockout at the 118-year-old plant, according to people familiar with the matter.

Chevron Corp’s first-quarter profit fell 29% from the same period a year ago as gains from oil and gas prices were undercut by weaker refining margins, production losses and the impact of an asset sale that benefited results last year.

Indonesia will stop both liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and fuel imports by 2030 and plans big changes to its energy infrastructure to meet that target, a top energy official said on Thursday.

The USW has issued a statement condemning ExxonMobil’s decision to lock out more than 650 members of USW Local 13-243 at its Beaumont, Texas refinery and blending and packaging plant.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sending staff to a recently reopened U.S. Caribbean refinery to conduct an investigation after some residents said an odor coming from the refinery caused them to feel ill.

Neste will modify its existing renewables production capacity at its Rotterdam facility to enable production of up to 500,000 tons of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) per year.

Exxon Mobil Corp and the United Steelworkers union (USW) have agreed to an orderly transfer of the company's Beaumont, Texas, refinery to temporary workers if a threatened lockout begins on Saturday, according to people familiar with the talks.

Phillips 66 and Southwest Airlines have signed a MoU to advance the commercialization of sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, a lower carbon-intensity fuel that can be produced from renewable feedstocks such as waste oils, fats, and greases.

Nacero Inc. recently announced plans to build a $7.0 billion lower carbon gasoline manufacturing facility in west Texas. The gasoline will be made from a combination of natural gas, captured bio-methane and mitigated flare gas.

ExxonMobil and Global Clean Energy have expanded their five-year agreement to increase ExxonMobil’s purchase of renewable diesel up to 5 million barrels per year.

U.S. refiner Valero Energy Corp posted a larger quarterly loss on Thursday as a winter storm hit its operations in February, but its top boss shrugged off the rare event to focus on rising fuel demand and fatter refining margins.

Indian Oil Corp Ltd's (IOC) refineries are operating at about 95% of their capacity, down from 100% at the same time last month, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The adoption of electrification in oil-dependent sectors is accelerating and is predicted to lead to peak oil demand of 101.6 million barrels per day in 2026, according to Rystad Energy.

Formosa Petrochemical Corp restarted its No. 1 naphtha cracker at the company's Mailiao Refinery after a technical problem shut the unit last week.

Exxon Mobil on Monday floated a proposal for a public-private carbon storage project that would collect planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. petrochemical plants and bury them in deep under the Gulf of Mexico.

Exxon Mobil Corp has reached an agreement with U.S. and Illinois regulators to reduce air pollution at its refinery near Chicago in Joliet, Illinois, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Chevron Corporation and Honeywell today announced the commissioning and start-up of the world’s first commercial-scale ISOALKY™ process unit that utilizes ionic liquids to produce alkylate.

Exxon is considering whether to close down its Slagen oil refinery in Norway, which has a capacity to process 120,000 barrels of crude per day, turning the site into an import terminal, the U.S. energy major said on Thursday.

Seven people were injured after a major fire broke out Wednesday at Pemex's 285,000 bpd Lazaro Cardenas refinery in the eastern city of Minatitlan.

Spanish energy firm Repsol said on Thursday it will furlough up to 830 workers at its La Coruna and Puertollano refineries in Spain as pandemic restrictions have led to an “unprecedented” slump in demand for fuels.

Operations at Indonesia’s state oil company PT Pertamina’s 125,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Balongan may return to normal this week, following a fire in some parts of the refinery, a company director told parliament on Monday.

After thorough planning work, Neste's Porvoo refinery is preparing to execute a major 12-week turnaround starting in April.

U.S. gasoline sales for 2021 have exceeded prior-year levels for the first time since last March, when officials first started to widely impose coronavirus lockdowns, according to a report from the Oil Price Information Service by IHS Markit.

According to the EIA, China processed more crude oil than the United States in 2020, not only because of COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions, but also because of differences in the longer-term structural refining trends between the two countries.

Niger's Soraz refinery was shut down on Friday after a failure occurred in the 20,000 bpd facility's catalytic cracking unit.

Indonesia’s state oil company Pertamina said on Monday that it was trying to control a massive fire at its Balongan oil refinery in West Java and that five people had been injured and about 950 people evacuated because of the blaze.

Chevron Corp has emerged as a leading contender to buy the Royal Dutch Shell Plc 145,000 bpd Puget Sound refinery in Anacortes, Washington, three people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Petrobras has announced that the company's Board of Directors has approved the sale of the Landulpho Alves Refinery (RLAM) and its associated logistics assets, in Bahia, to Mubadala Capital for US$ 1.65 billion.

BASF, SABIC and Linde have signed a joint agreement to develop and demonstrate solutions for electrically heated steam cracker furnaces. The partners have already jointly worked on concepts to use renewable electricity instead of the fossil fuel gas.

Based on today’s policy settings, global oil demand is set to rise every year through 2026, IEA report says, but stronger policies and behavior changes could bring a peak in demand soon.

MOL Group has started biofuel production at its Danube Refinery, delivering on its recently updated strategy “SHAPE TOMORROW” MOL Group 2030+ Strategy.

After a thorough study phase concerning the two possible locations, Neste has selected Rotterdam for its new world scale renewable products refinery.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc is preparing to restart the crude distillation units (CDUs) at its 318,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) joint-venture Deer Park, Texas, refinery as early as Sunday night, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Marathon Petroleum Corp is preparing to restart a crude distillation unit (CDU) by early next week at its 585,000 bpd Galveston Bay Refinery.

The largest U.S. refinery, Motiva Enterprises’ 607,000 barrel-per-day Port Arthur, Texas, plant, returned to normal operations on Sunday, sources familiar with plant operations said on Monday.

The bankrupt former operator of the Philadelphia refinery has blamed the supplier of an allegedly mislabeled elbow section of pipe for the 2019 blast that led to the permanent closure of PES.

Global oil demand is recovering and could return to around pre-pandemic levels next year, the chief executive of Saudi Aramco told an oil and gas conference on Tuesday.

Neste has completed its acquisition of Bunge Loders Croklaan's refinery plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

A fire broke out over the weekend at Delek's 80,000 bpd refinery in El Dorado, Arkansas, injuring six employees.

Lummus Technology announced the successful start-up of its CDAlky® C5 alkylation unit at Valero’s St. Charles Refinery in Norco, Louisiana. The capacity of the alkylation complex is 17,000 BPSD of Alkylate product.

Indian Oil Corp will invest 329.46 billion rupees ($4.46 billion) to raise the capacity of its Panipat refinery by two-thirds to 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) by September 2024.

U.S. crude prices edged up to its highest close since 2019 as Texas refineries restarted production after last week’s freeze, while Brent eased on worries that four months of gains will prompt producers to boost output.

Marathon Petroleum has begun restarting a crude distillation unit (CDU) at its 585,000 bpd Galveston Bay Refinery, as the refinery recovers from the effects of severe cold weather a week ago, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Lyondell Basell Industries shut the large crude distillation unit (CDU) at its 263,776 barrel-per-day (bpd) Houston oil refinery on Tuesday to begin repairs to the cooling water system.

Valero Energy Corp has boosted production on the restarted small crude distillation unit (CDU) and the coker at its 335,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, said sources familiar with plant operations.

A deep freeze across the United States is taking a toll on the energy industry in the largest U.S. crude-producing state, halting Texas oil wells and refineries on Monday and forcing restrictions from natural gas and crude pipeline operators.

Venture Global LNG, Inc. recently announced it has closed a $500 million term loan to fund pre-FID construction activities at the company’s Plaquemines LNG export project, as well as for general corporate purposes.

Total S.A., the French oil and gas major, announced it would rebrand as TotalEnergies as it tries over the next decade to reduce oil production and grow renewable power and electricity production.

Marathon Petroleum Corp plans to shut several units at its 585,000 barrel-per-day Galveston Bay Refinery in mid-February for a planned overhaul.

Petrobras said on Monday it had agreed to sell its RLAM refinery to Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Capital for $1.65 billion, subject to regulatory approval.

Limetree Bay Refining has successfully resumed operations and begun production and commercial sales of refined products.

Following a year of grim losses amid pandemic lockdowns that dented demand for fuel as people stuck close to home, the largest U.S. independent refiners are promoting plans to boost production of renewable fuels.

U.S. refiner Valero Energy Corp on Thursday posted a much smaller quarterly loss than Wall Street expected and pinned hopes on widespread COVID-19 vaccinations to ease travel restrictions and improve demand for fuel.

One man died and another was injured after a fire on Monday ripped through the Russian Ufaorgsintez oil refinery, controlled by Rosneft, the refinery said. It said the fire had been contained and there was no danger of the blaze spreading further.

U.S. refiners are preparing for a painful slate of fourth-quarter earnings, reflecting the pressure of rising crude prices, weak demand due to travel restrictions, and higher costs associated with blending of renewable fuels into their products.

On Wednesday, newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden announced America’s return to the international Paris Agreement to fight climate change and revoked a vital permit for TC Energy’s Keystone XL oil pipeline project from Canada.

The Peruvian government authorized state-run Petroperú to issue up to $1 billion in bonds to complete the modernization of the country’s largest refinery, a resolution from the Ministry of Economy said on Tuesday.

The Trump administration is reviewing requests from the oil refining industry for a sweeping nationwide waiver to exempt them from their obligations to blend biofuels, a measure they argue would help them weather the economic impact of the pandemic.

The International Energy Agency recently announced it will produce the world’s first comprehensive roadmap for the energy sector to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 as it further strengthens its leadership role in global clean energy transitions.

Almost one in three workers in the oil and gas industry faced pay cuts in 2020, a worldwide survey showed on Tuesday, as the coronavirus crisis drove down fuel demand and prices.

India’s HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd (HMEL) will shut its 226,000 bpd Bathinda refinery in northern Punjab state for about 40 days from end-January for maintenance.

TechnipFMC has announced the resumption of activities toward its planned separation into two independent, publicly traded companies: TechnipFMC and Technip Energies.

BP Plc has given the Limetree Bay Refinery in St. Croix more time to fully restart and retain its crude oil supply agreement after the plant failed to hit operating targets last year, according to people familiar with the matter.

Nigeria’s state oil firm NNPC is in talks to raise around $1 billion in a prepayment with trading firms to refurbish its largest refining complex at Port Harcourt, seven sources familiar with the discussions said.

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U.S. gasoline prices hit a nine-month peak as drivers took to the roads on holiday travel, crude oil prices kept climbing and refiners further cut fuel production due to weak margins.

A fire at a secondary unit at an oil refinery owned by Rosneft in Russia’s far eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur has been contained, a spokesman for the refinery said on Tuesday.

Portugal’s oil and gas company Galp will fully cease processing hydrocarbons at the smaller of its two refineries, in Matosinhos near Porto, from next year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the regulatory environment.

Layoffs of hourly workers at Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s shuttered Convent, Louisiana, refinery are scheduled to begin on the last day of February, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said Exxon Mobil Corp is considering investing more than $240 million in its 517,700 bpd Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refinery.

U.S. oil refiner Phillips 66 on Monday set its 2021 capital budget at $1.7 billion, around 43% lower than forecast for the previous year.

As of September 1st, the United States had 18.4 million (b/cd) of petroleum refining capacity, the lowest level since May 2016.

An explosion rocked South Africa’s second-largest crude oil refinery in Durban on Friday injuring seven people, local emergency services said.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to complete the permanent shutdown of its 211,146 barrel-per-day (bpd) Convent, Louisiana, refinery within 10 days, sources familiar with the company’s plans said.

Chevron said it expects total capital and exploratory budget through 2025 to be between $14 billion and $16 billion, well below the prior forecast of up to $22 billion.

Neste will shut down its refinery in Naantali, Finland and cut 370 jobs to seek savings worth 50 million euros ($59.9 million) due to declining demand for fossil oil products, the Finnish biofuel producer and oil refiner said on Monday.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC may begin the permanent shutdown of its 211,146 bpd Convent, Louisiana, refinery early next week, people familiar with plant operations said on Monday.

China is on track to eclipse the U.S. as the world's top refining power, a position it has held since the mid-19th century, following a series of major refinery closures in the states.

BP Plc notified officials in Chicago and the state of Illinois of possible layoffs affecting more than 250 salaried employees at the company’s offices, BP said in a statement.

Permanent refining capacity closures expected for 2020-2021 have risen to about 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd) as the COVID-19 pandemic hammers demand for oil products, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday.

Royal Dutch Shell will halve crude processing capacity and cut jobs at its Pulau Bukom oil refinery in Singapore as part of an overhaul to reduce its carbon emissions.

Since April, when coronavirus reduced demand for refined products such as gasoline, distillate fuel, and jet fuel, gross inputs of crude oil and other raw materials to U.S. refineries have been lower than the five-year range (2015–19).

Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro SA is set to receive binding offers on December 10 for its Rio Grande do Sul state refinery Refap, with Indian conglomerate Essar Group and local firms Raizen and Ultrapar Participacoes SA among its potential bidders.

CVR Energy Inc plans to pursue a renewable diesel project at its 132,000 barrel per day (bpd) Coffeyville, Kansas, refinery if it succeeds in producing the fuel at its Wynnewood, Oklahoma, plant, the refiner said Tuesday.

Royal Dutch Shell said on Thursday it was closing its refinery in Convent, Louisiana, the first on the U.S. Gulf Coast to shut down since the coronavirus pandemic devastated worldwide demand.

Neste has agreed to acquire Bunge Loders Croklaan's refinery plant located in Rotterdam for $258 million euros.

Royal Dutch Shell plans to shrink its refining and chemicals portfolio from fourteen to six sites including its Deer Park, Norco, Pernis, Pulau Bukom, Rheinland and Scotford sites.

Oil producers on Monday shut offshore production and pulled workers off platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as the 27th named storm of the season strengthened into a hurricane and took aim at the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Mexican Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said on Sunday that construction of the country’s new refinery at the southern Gulf coast port in Dos Bocas was almost a quarter completed.

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Workers at French oil and gas major Total's Grandpuits refinery southeast of Paris have decided to suspend their strike, the union said on Tuesday.

Royal Dutch Shell said on Tuesday it plans to carry out major maintenance work on an undisclosed unit at its Pernis oil refinery in the Netherlands from mid-October to end November.

Energy companies forged ahead restoring oil and natural gas production in the U.S.-regulated northern Gulf of Mexico on Monday, three days after Hurricane Delta made landfall, said the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).

If they can maintain recent progress, U.S. oil refiners should be able to bring stocks of diesel and other middle distillates close to normal levels in the first quarter of 2021.

U.S. Gulf operators have begun evacuating personnel and shutting down facilities in preparation for Tropical Storm Delta, which is expected to strengthen into a Category 3 hurricane as it moves into warmer waters.

Marathon Petroleum Corp, the largest U.S. oil refiner, began cutting jobs on Tuesday across the company, according to people familiar with the matter, as the COVID-19 pandemic sapped demand for motor fuels.

U.S. oil producer ConocoPhillips sees global demand returning to 100 million barrels per day and growing from there, with oil an "important part of the energy mix in any scenario" going forward, a senior executive said on Thursday.

Total is investing more than €500 million to convert its Grandpuits Refinery into a zero-crude platform for biofuels and bioplastics.

Global oil refiners reeling from months of lackluster demand and an abundance of inventories are cutting fuel production into the autumn because the recovery in demand from the impact of coronavirus has stalled.

Royal Dutch Shell is looking to slash up to 40% off the cost of producing oil and gas in a major drive to save cash so it can overhaul its business and focus more on renewable energy and power markets, sources told Reuters.

Brazilian oil company Petrobras said on Monday it will open another round of bidding for its Repar refinery in the state of Parana after receiving binding offers that were too similar in value.

Storm-tossed U.S. offshore energy producers and exporters began clearing debris on Thursday from Hurricane Sally and booting up idle Gulf of Mexico operations after hunkering down for five days.

The U.S. returned to being a net energy exporter in August despite disruptions from Hurricane Laura and ongoing uncertainty over the pandemic, according to data recently released by the American Petroleum Institute.

Yokogawa recently revealed the results of a global end-user survey on the outlook for industrial autonomy, which shows that 64% of respondents from companies in process industries are anticipating fully autonomous operations by 2030.

Offshore platforms and one refinery along the U.S. Gulf Coast shut down on Sunday as they prepared for a second hurricane strike in less than a month.

Citgo recently released an update on the status of its Lake Charles Refinery following Hurricane Laura, stating that the company expected all refinery units to be operational by mid to late October.

The closure of some U.S. oil refineries will have a net benefit to Magellan Midstream Partners LP’s refined products pipeline systems, the company’s chief executive officer said on Wednesday.

Motiva Enterprises restarted the crude distillation units (CDUs), coker, and hydrocracker on Saturday at its 607,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery.

Valero Energy Corp restarted the large crude distillation unit (CDU) at its 335,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas refinery on Sunday.

Oil refineries owned by Citgo Petroleum Corp. and Phillips 66 in Louisiana may be facing many more weeks of downtime as they wrestle with the loss of power and damage related to Hurricane Laura’s assault on the area last week.

South African petrochemicals group Sasol said on Monday that its Lake Charles Chemical facility in the U.S. state of Louisiana remained shut after Hurricane Laura made landfall last week.

DJI announces partnership with Shell to create, test and deploy drone technology at their Deer Park Manufacturing Complex to improve efficiency and worker safety during industrial inspections and emergency incident response.

Exxon Mobil Corp restored stable power to its 369,024-barrel-per-day (bpd) Beaumont, Texas, refinery on Thursday as it prepares to begin restarting production units, said sources familiar with plant operations.

U.S. energy companies on Thursday were organizing crews to evaluate offshore Gulf of Mexico platforms and assess damage to coastal operations as Hurricane Laura took its fierce winds inland.

The EPA has not made a decision on U.S. biofuel blending requirements for 2021 or on petitions from refiners asking to be exempted from past-year requirements going back to 2011, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said on Wednesday.

According to sources familiar with plant operations, Motiva Enterprises may shut the largest crude oil refinery in the United States for the passage of Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura later this week.

Flint Hills Resources recently announced that as part of its continuous efforts to transform and improve operations, the company is partnering with Molex to launch a first-of-its-kind digital approach to leak detection at industrial facilities.

Securing talent is becoming more challenging and expensive for oil and gas companies amid the coronavirus pandemic and a growing distaste for the oil business among potential young employees.

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has confirmed significant progress made on its $3.5 billion “Crude Flexibility Project” (CFP), with 73% project delivery of ADNOC’s ongoing upgrade of refining capabilities in Ruwais.

U.S. refiner Phillips 66 plans to convert its San Francisco Refinery into a renewable fuels plant using cooking oil and food wastes.

The Philippine unit of Royal Dutch Shell said on Tuesday it will permanently shut one of the country’s two oil refineries, blaming a pandemic-led slump in margins, with other regional closures likely to follow, according to analysts.

Canada’s Co-op refinery complex in Regina, Saskatchewan, said it has contained and extinguished a fire in ‘Section 1’ of the 135,000 barrel-per-day refinery on Monday morning, with all personnel safe.

No injuries were reported from the fire, which broke out on Thursday. Sources familiar with plant operations said the 49,000-bpd 634 cat feed/heavy gas oil hydrotreater was shut by the blaze.

U.S. crude oil stockpiles fell sharply last week as refining rates hit their highest since March, while gasoline and distillate inventories rose, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

Marathon Petroleum plans to permanently close two small U.S. oil refineries in Martinez, California, and Gallup, New Mexico, the company said, eliminating 800 jobs in response to lower fuels demand.

U.S. oil refiners in coming days are expected to report the worst second-quarter results in a decade, with production outrunning demand while pandemic-related closings have sapped summer travel.

Total has signed an agreement to sell the Lindsey refinery and its associated logistic assets, as well as all of the related rights and obligations, to the Prax Group.

Bharat Petroleum Corp plans to restart a 200,000 barrels per day crude unit at its 310,000 bpd Kochi refinery in southern India by end of this month after a three-week maintenance shutdown, its head of refineries said.

U.S. refiners dialed back crude processing for a second week running, responding to lower consumption of all three major fuels.

U.S. refineries have sustained fewer mechanical outages as production has fallen because of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, according to data from energy intelligence service Industrial Info Resources.

Reliance Industries, operator of the world’s biggest refining complex in western Gujarat, will shut one of its crude refining units at its export-focused plant in the fourth week of July for 3-4 weeks of maintenance.

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Chevron Corp restarted the 112,229 barrel-per-day (bpd) Pasadena, Texas, refinery on Tuesday night after completing a multi-unit overhaul that was extended because of the COVID-19 pandemic, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Delta Airlines is exploring “all options” for its Trainer refinery in Pennsylvania, but has no change in plans for operating the plant, Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson said on an earnings call Tuesday.

Taiwan’s Formosa Petrochemical Corp has shut a residue desulphuriser (RDS) unit at its 540,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) Mailiao refinery after it was hit by a fire early on Wednesday, three sources close to the matter said.

Venezuelan state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) has restarted gasoline output at its 310,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Cardon refinery, two people familiar with the matter said, as the OPEC nation suffers from fuel shortages.

Refiner Irving Oil announced on Wednesday that it will lay off 250 employees, or roughly 6% of its global workforce, due to economic challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic.

Inspectioneering, LLC has launched a specialized recruiting and staffing firm offering workforce solutions to help companies find and secure the top Mechanical Integrity and Reliability talent needed to successfully operate their business.

API is currently seeking presentations abstracts for the 2021 Inspection and Mechanical Integrity Summit, scheduled for June 7-10, 2021 in San Antonio, TX. The deadline to submit your abstract for consideration is September 15, 2020.

Marathon Petroleum Corp plans to finish a multi-unit overhaul in late July at its 585,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, said sources familiar with plant operations.

U.S. refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp is delaying all maintenance projects at its 102,000 barrel-per-day St. Paul Park, Minnesota, refinery for 2020, a source familiar with the matter said, amid concerns related to the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc is weighing the sale of its 211,146 barrel-per-day (bpd) Convent, Louisiana, refinery, the company said on Tuesday.

CVR Energy and HollyFrontier Corp have cut their workforces in recent weeks, according to three sources, as demand falls due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Citgo Petroleum Corp restarted the large gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker on Wednesday at its 167,500-barrel-per-day (bpd) Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery on Wednesday following a pump outage.

Two people were killed on Thursday in an explosion at Astron Energy’s 100,000 barrel per day refinery in Cape Town.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to restart the 40,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) reformer over the weekend at its 227,400 bpd Norco, Louisiana, refinery, sources familiar with plant operations said on Tuesday.

Hilco Redevelopment Partners (HRP) has announced that it has completed its acquisition of the 1300-acre former Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in Southwest Philadelphia.

BP has agreed to sell its global petrochemicals business (aromatics and acetyls) to INEOS for a total consideration of $5 billion, subject to customary adjustments.

Refining NZ said on Thursday it is considering shutting New Zealand’s only oil refinery and turning it into a fuel import terminal in the long run, but first will reduce its operations to cut costs and break even into 2021.

U.S. crude oil refining capacity grew by nearly 1 percent in 2019, or 173,650 barrels per day (bpd) to nearly 19 million bpd, a new record, according to a report released on Wednesday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Brazil’s Petrobras is set to receive binding offers for the country’s second-largest refinery on Thursday, five people with knowledge of the matter said, as the state oil company aims to restart a plan to divest more than $10 billion in assets.

As the United States faces this year's hurricane season, it is critical that the chemical industry understands and prepares for the potential safety hazards posed by extreme weather events.

Valero Energy Corp’s Memphis, Tennessee, crude oil refinery is operating at two-thirds of its 180,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity because of low demand in the COVID-19 pandemic, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Exxon Mobil Corp is restarting the hydrocracker at its 560,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Baytown, Texas, refinery on Tuesday, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Gunvor Group is considering mothballing its oil refinery in the Belgian city of Antwerp because it is expected to be loss-making in the near term.

The cost of overhauling a long-idled Caribbean oil refinery has nearly doubled to about $2.7 billion, said people familiar with the matter, as it prepares to start commercial operations amid an oversupplied fuel market.

A sale of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery site to real estate developer Hilco is expected to close next week for $27.5 million less than planned, the bankrupt refiner said in a court filing.

Petrobras said in an email late on Monday that the fire would not affect deliveries, helped by its inventory. The company also did not provide a date on when production will return to normal levels.

Oil prices rose 3% in volatile trade on Tuesday as Wall Street surged and the International Energy Agency (IEA) increased its oil demand forecast for 2020, but gains were capped by worries about a second wave of coronavirus cases.

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Exxon Mobil Corp is considering slipping the completion of an expansion of its Beaumont, Texas, refinery by up to a year into 2023 because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on oil demand, said sources familiar with the company’s plans.

BP will cut about 15% of its workforce in response to the coronavirus crisis and as part of Chief Executive Bernard Looney’s plan to shift the oil and gas major to renewable energy

Wall Street is betting on a strong recovery from the coronavirus pandemic by pouring money into shares of U.S. oil refiners, even though demand for gasoline, jet fuel and diesel remains well below seasonal lows.

GE Digital today announced that its APM software V4.4 release incorporates the latest requirements of the American Petroleum Institute (API) RP 581 standard into GE Digital APM’s Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 581 calculator.

The International Pressure Equipment Integrity Association (IPEIA) is looking for presenters for its 25th Annual Conference taking place March 1 - 5, 2021 in Banff, Alberta. The deadline for abstract submission is September 12th, 2020.

China is reviving a $20 billion petrochemical project in eastern Shandong province as part of efforts to dial up infrastructure spending to support an economy struggling with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic

Italian oil major Eni is planning to create a division to focus on new energy solutions which could be headed by its CFO, as it steps up preparations for a decarbonized future, two sources said.

Shell has restarted the crude distillation unit (CDU), coker, and gasoline-producing cat cracker at its 225,300 barrel-per-day (bpd) Norco, Louisiana, refinery, said sources familiar with plant operations.

HollyFrontier Corp said on Monday it will convert its 52,000 bpd oil refinery in Cheyenne, Wyoming into a renewable diesel plant to try to tap into growing demand for the alternative fuel.

Marathon Petroleum Corp has shut the hydrocracker and alkylation unit at its 585,000 bpd Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas as part of a multi-unit overhaul, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Indonesia’s PT Pertamina will develop its Cilacap refinery in Central Java “independently”, the state energy company said on Friday, dropping a plan to boost capacity through a joint venture with Saudi Aramco.

Canadian-owned Irving Oil and U.S. investment firm Silverpeak have signed an agreement for Irving Oil to acquire North Atlantic Refining Corp., subject to regulatory review and conditions of sale being met.

TPC Group is accused of three willful violations and faces $514,692 in fines from OSHA after the agency concluded its investigation into the November 27, 2019 plant explosion in Port Neches, Texas.

China’s Sinopec Corp is expected to start commercial operations at its oil refining and petrochemical complex in Zhanjiang at the end of July, a company spokesperson said on Thursday.

Chevron Corp will cut 10% to 15% of its worldwide workforce as part of an ongoing restructuring at the second-largest U.S. oil producer.

Workers represented by the United Steelworkers union (USW) at Exxon Mobil Corp’s Baytown, Texas, refinery ratified a new three-year contract on Tuesday night, a company spokesman said.

Global oil refiners, battling weak profit margins, are pinning their hopes on a recovery in gasoline demand as coronavirus lockdowns start to ease in many countries around the world.

Capital spending by the U.S. energy sector that has dropped during the coronavirus crisis could fall another 30% or more, which would have far-reaching consequences on the overall economy, the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank said on Tuesday.

Exxon Mobil Corp completed the restart on Wednesday of the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker (FCC) at its 369,024-barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Beaumont, Texas, sources familiar with plant operations said.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Norco, Louisiana, refinery is operating at about 80% of its 225,300 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Enbridge Inc said it has reached a deal with shippers to temporarily store crude in North America’s largest oil pipeline network, according to a filing, as Canadian producers scramble to respond to weak refinery demand and low prices.

Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp said it will shut down its 110,000-barrel-per-day Tabangao refinery in the Philippines for one month from mid-May in response to slumping oil demand.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has begun a gradual restart of its Ruwais oil refinery complex after a scheduled maintenance shutdown.

BP is donating 3 million gallons of jet fuel to FedEx and Alaska Airlines to help with the distribution of personal protective equipment in the battle against the new coronavirus.

Qatar Petroleum, one of the world’s biggest energy companies, plans a new wave of job cuts and spending reductions to cope with the slump in oil and gas demand which has hit global economies.

The 33rd annual Pipeline Pigging and Integrity Management (PPIM) Conference and Exhibition is now accepting papers for the 2021 event.

Valero Energy Corp plans to operate its 15 refineries up to 73% of the combined total throughput capacity of 3.1 million barrels per day (bpd) in the second quarter of 2020, said Homer Bhullar, vice president of investor relations, on Wednesday.

ABB has developed an innovative augmenting technology aimed at digitalizing the field operator experience and improving interaction between field and control room operations.

Thai oil refiner and petrochemical producer IRPC Pcl has delayed a USD $1 billion petrochemical investment and cut run rates by 20% as demand for petroleum and petrochemical products falls amid the coronavirus outbreak

Kuibyshev oil refinery, owned by Russian energy giant Rosneft, has halted operations for maintenance from April 15 until June 1, according to Refinitiv Eikon data citing the energy ministry.

PBF Energy is restarting key units at its Chalmette Refinery as it works to bring the entire facility back online by the end of the week.

PBF Energy Inc. has completed, and received the $530 million consideration for, the sale of five steam methane reformer (SMR) hydrogen production plants to Air Products.

The Martinez plant is the second in the United States to temporarily cease operations in response to the plummeting demand for products such as gasoline and jet fuel amid severe travel restrictions in place to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Becht announces the acquisition of Code Inspection & Testing Co- IR Technologies to bring heater infrared imaging solutions to the refining, petrochemical, and power generation industries.

Marathon Petroleum plans to operate the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker at its 585,000 bpd Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, at reduced production levels, said sources familiar with plant operations said on Monday.

An early morning explosion rocked Valero Energy Corp’s 125,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Meraux, Louisiana, refinery on the east side of New Orleans

BP Plc’s three largest U.S. refineries are operating between 80 and 85% of their individual crude oil processing capacities because of limited storage

Exxon Mobil Corp’s Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refinery is operating at two-thirds of its 502,500-barrel-per-day capacity because of demand destruction from the coronavirus pandemic, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Shell plans to start large-scale maintenance of its Pernis refinery in the Netherlands in mid-April, more than two weeks earlier than previously planned.

Nigeria has decided to shut down all its oil refineries as it works to secure funding and a model to upgrade them, the head of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said on Wednesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would impose tariffs on crude imports if he has to “protect” U.S. energy workers from the oil price crash that has been exacerbated by a war between Russia and Saudi Arabia over market share.

Caltex Australia Ltd plans to extend the planned shutdown of its sole oil refinery Lytton refinery to ward off the expected hit to refining amid the pressures on demand from the coronavirus pandemic

A 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.

The global oil refining industry is facing a reckoning from falling fuel demand that is the deepest and fastest ever.

LyondellBasell 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.

Pakistan’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.

Taiwan’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.

The American Petroleum Institute has published the 3rd Edition of Recommended Practice 571 - Damage Mechanisms Affecting Fixed Equipment in the Refining Industry.

U.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.

The 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.