Many of these schemes are likely to founder as US environmental regulations make it impossible to build refineries on greenfield sites. This may create an opportunity for refiners in other countries to become export refiners serving principally the US market. Some existing refiners do this already, ...
Crews Clean Up, Investigate Staten Island Oil Spill An oil spill in Staten Island overnight sent crews scrambling to clean up the mess and investigate what caused the incident. Dec 15, 2012 Opinion: Another Hurricane Reminds Us Of The Need For An Effective Administration The 2012 president...
Also in the 1950s,petrochemicalindustries began locating in New Orleans, followed in the 1970s by oil refineries. The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition revitalized the warehouse district but was a financial disaster. In the mid-1980s the local oil industry went bust, and the city’s fortunes bega...
‘SHARK TANK’ STAR KEVIN O'LEARY DESTROYS ‘REALLY BAD POLICY’ IN DEMOCRAT-RUN STATES "The Middle East, that produces most of the world's oil, has already told every economy, including ours: do not depend on us in perpetuity for your energy; if you can find your way to energy indepe...
In the course of seeking new export routes, South Sudan and Kenya, Ethiopia reached an agreement the two countries, plans to construct one from the southern Sudan to Kenya pipeline in coastal areas and in Kenya to build oil refineries in the territory. How long it will take to complete this...
New federal guidelines for oil shipments do not look set to slow down the growth of rail as a means of carrying crude to refineries in the U.S. and Canada. Citigroup analyst Christian Wetherbee said the big issue would be when the U.S. requires an upgrade of tanker cars, but if they...
In order to meet the requirements, various renewable raw materials such as vegetable oils, animal fats, used cooking oil, or pyrolysis oils must be converted. However, converting these renewable raw materials requires existing refinery processes to be optimized further. Refineries, catalyst providers,...
indicates a denser network of oil gel, which was confirmed by the microscopic images analyzed in the work. The organogel with CAN had the shortest (on average 8.49 nm) and the most regularly distributed crystals compared to other samples. The lowest values of organogel strength and spreadability...
We are proud to work with refineries around the world on revamp projects. Our experience as owner-operators allows us to apply our knowledge inlicensed technologyand catalyst from Shell refineries to service third-party customer sites. Looking f...
Related article:Thriving in the new reality: Why production flexibility is key for competitive refineries 3. We are extremely capital-constrained. Are there any refinery revamp projects you would recommend that require less investment? If you often have, for example, difficulty with staying withi...