OGJ Processing Report - May 17th, 2023
 
 
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May 17, 2023
TotalEnergies is collocating what will become Belgium’s first battery-based energy storage system at its 338,000-b/d integrated refining and petrochemical platform near the Port of Antwerp.
Petrobras has let a contract for the proposed modernization of existing units at Train 1 of the operator’s original nameplate-capacity 130,000-b/d Refinaria Abreu e Lima refinery in Ipojuca, Pernambuco, in northeast Brazil.
PBF Energy and Eni have completed construction on the main production unit of joint venture St. Bernard Renewables' new biorefinery co-located and under development at PBF subsidiary Chalmette Refining's dual-train coking refinery in Chalmette, La.
Marathon Petroleum dedicated the bulk of its first-quarter 2023 capex to advancing its balanced approach of optimizing traditional crude oil refining operations while furthering low-carbon projects.
Strike Energy has completed initial engineering with Technip Energies for a low-cost modular and expandable gas plant to be sited at the company’s Mid-West Low Carbon Manufacturing Precinct linked to commissioning of South Erregulla gas field.
Citgo Petroleum completed a turnaround at its Lake Charles, La., refinery, increasing nameplate crude oil processing capacity at the complex by 38,000 b/d to 463,000 b/d.
Valero Energy Corp., San Antonio, Tex., has started up a new 55,000-b/d delayed coker and sulfur recovery unit at the operator’s 395,000-b/d refinery in Port Arthur, Tex.
Sichuan Jinshang Environmental Protection Technology has let a contract to Honeywell UOP to license process technology that will enable production of sustainable aviation fuel at a grassroots plant to built at Suining, Jintang County, Sichuan, China.
Houston-based Vertex Energy Inc. has commissioned the first phase of its renewable diesel conversion project at Vertex Refining Alabama LLC’s 75,000-b/d refining and petrochemical complex in Mobile, Ala.
Shell Chemical LP said May 8 that it continues to respond to hot spots after a fire that originally ignited May 5 at its Deer Park Chemicals plant in Texas was reignited by remaining product and subsequently extinguished May 7.
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