OGJ Processing Report - Apr 19th, 2023
 
 
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April 19, 2023
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ExxonMobil Corp. has started up its long-planned project to expand light crude oil processing capacity by 250,000 b/d at ExxonMobil Product Solutions Co.’s integrated refining and petrochemicals complex along the US Gulf Coast in Beaumont, Tex.
Bharat Petroleum let a contract to Chevron Lummus Global to deliver technology licensing for a grassroots processing unit to be installed at the operator’s 12-million tpy refinery in Mumbai, Maharastra, India.
Saudi Aramo and partners are starting construction of their joint venture Huajin Aramco Petrochemical Co.’s proposed 300,000-b/d refining and ethylene-based steam cracking complex in Panjin City, northeast China.
Zallaf Libya Oil and Gas Co. has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC to deliver front-end engineering and design for the operator’s proposed 30,000-b/d South Refinery to be built in Aubari City, about 25 km east of Al Sharara oil field in Libya.
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Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP subsidiary Montana Renewables achieved design throughput capacity for processing renewable feedstocks into low-emission sustainable fuel alternatives at the operator’s renewables manufacturing plant in Montana.
DG Fuels LLC, Washington, DC, has secured the land option for a proposed plan to build its grassroots complex for production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on a 3,000-acre site along the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, La.
Calgary-based Parkland Corp. has completed an 8-week planned maintenance event at subsidiary Parkland Refining (B.C.) Ltd.’s 55,000-b/d refinery on Burrard Inlet in North Burnaby, near North Vancouver, BC.
Vertex Energy increased its first-quarter 2023 capital expenditure guidance to $65-70 million from $30-35 million, the result of moving $35 million of planned second-quarter spending for its renewable diesel conversion project.
Indian Oil Corp. has granted approval for preliminary development work to proceed on a long-planned grassroots petrochemical complex that would be built nearby and integrated with IOC’s existing 15-million tpy refinery in Paradip, Odisha, India.
Sarawak Shell Bhd. and PETRONAS Carigali, through contractor Samsung Engineering, have let a preliminary contract to OceanMight to provide manufacturing and supply of equipment for a gas plant onshore Malaysia.
Petrobras has let a contract to Toyo Setal Empreendimentos to complete a new natural gas processing unit under construction at the Polo GasLub Itaboraí hub in Itaborai, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Pertamina is investigating the cause of an Apr. 4 explosion and ensuing fire in the compressor area of subsidiary PT Kilang Pertamina Internasional’s 170,000-b/d refinery sited across two locations in Dumai and Sungai Pakning, Riau, Sumatra.
Privately held petroleum refining company Placid Refining Co. LLC plans to spend $66 million to relocate its headquarters to Baton Rouge, La., from Dallas, Tex., and modernize its 82,000-b/d refinery in Port Allen, La.