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 …
Read More »Iran Creates 2.6 mb of Refinery Capacity by Developing Gas Supply Network since 2013
Gas extraction from the South Pars joint field with 420 million cubic meters daily increase from 280 million cubic meters in 2013 has reached the current figure of 700 mcm, adding gas production from this field has increased 2.5 times.
Read More »Bandar Abbas Refinery Starts Building 6 Petrol, Gasoil Storage Tanks
The operation to build 6 new petrol and gasoil storage tanks has begun at Bandar Abbas Refinery, southern Iran.
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