The coronavirus pandemic is likely to have come as a big draw on South Korean oil refiners last year as their low refining margins ate into their profitability, industry sources said Sunday. Whipsawed by weak oil prices and sluggish refining margins, industry leader SK Innovation Co. and three other players …
Read More »China’s Sinopec Sees Oil Product Demand Peak by 2025
China’s largest refiner, Sinopec, expects domestic demand for oil products to peak by 2025 due to COVID impacts and the rise of electric vehicles, Argus reported on Friday, citing Sinopec’s research think-tank as saying in its annual report. “China’s oil products will enter a final growth phase before peaking in …
Read More »Middle East Producers may Raise Jan OSPs, but OPEC+ Decision Key
Middle East producers led by Saudi Arabia are widely expected to raise their official selling prices for January loading crude in December, although the outcome of the OPEC and non-OPEC meetings in coming days could affect the size and even the direction of any price change. Saudi Aramco is expected …
Read More »China to Surpass U.S. as World’s Largest Oil Refiner in 2021
Earlier this month, Royal Dutch Shell Plc pulled the plug on its Convent refinery in Louisiana. Unlike many oil refineries shut in recent years, Convent was far from obsolete: it’s fairly big by U.S. standards and sophisticated enough to turn a wide range of crude oils into high-value fuels. Yet …
Read More »China Is Set to Eclipse America as World’s Biggest Oil Refiner
Earlier this month, Royal Dutch Shell Plc pulled the plug on its Convent refinery in Louisiana. Unlike many oil refineries shut in recent years, Convent was far from obsolete: it’s fairly big by U.S. standards and sophisticated enough to turn a wide range of crude oils into high-value fuels. Yet …
Read More »Refiners Face Mounting Pressure on Growing Demand, Capacity Imbalance
Refiners face an existential crisis as the growing divergence between refining capacity and demand for refined products will intensify sharply in the next two decades, the International Energy Agency said Oct. 13. More than 6 million b/d of new capacity will come online from now to 2025, but demand will …
Read More »Iran Ups Gas Output in Parsian Refinery by 9 Percent Y/Y
CEO of Parsian Gas Refining Company Farshid Abdali Dehdezi announced a 9% year-on-year increase in the production of gas and gas condensates in the first six months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2020-September 21, 2020) Abdali Dehdezi pointed out that his company supplied 10.34 billion cubic meters of …
Read More »US Refiners Look to Outdo Canadians in Renewable Fuel
US oil refineries are moving aggressively to produce renewable diesel, partly to cash in on Canada’s greener fuel standard before Canadian refiners modify their own plants. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government intends to present its Clean Fuel Standard this year, aiming to cut 30 million tons of emissions by …
Read More »Iran’s Fajr Jam Refinery Ups Gas Output by 7 Percent in 6 Months
CEO of Fajr Jam Gas Refining Company Abdolsamad Najafi announced a seven percent rise in gas production of the facility in the first half of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2020-September 21, 2020). “Refining and production of natural gas as the main product of this company has increased by …
Read More »Iran Sees 65pc Increase in Gas Refining Capacity in 7 Years
Iranian Gas refining capacity has reached 1.1 billion cubic meters a day compared to 670 million cubic meters a day seven years ago, it was announced on Wednesday. Gas refining capacity of Iran has witnessed 65 percent increase after seven years since the current Iranian government took office in August …
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