Refineries UPDATE
October 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
U.S.
Philadelphia Refinery JV Formed by Sunoco, Carlyle Group
Utah Awaits Test Results on Holly Refinery Accident
Delta Looking to Transport Bakken Crude by Rail to Pennsylvania Refinery
Early September Outages but Little Damage from Isaac Seen by Energy Companies
Hurricane Isaac Creates Slight Delay for Valero Hydrocracker Project
California’s Bay Area Refiners to Pay for New Air Monitors
Sunoco Transfers Philly Refinery to Carlyle Group JV
BRAZIL
Petrobras Faces Allegations of Improperly Treating Refinery Wastewater
VENEZUELA
Venezuela’s Amuay Refinery Operating at Half Capacity
Foster Wheeler Awarded Design Contract for New Batalla Santa Ines Refinery in Venezuela
ASIA
Asian Refineries Ready to Respond to Demand for Diesel
AUSTRALIA
Shell Gets $94 Mln Waste Water Treatment Project Underway in Australia’s Geelong Region
INDIA
Punj Lloyd Awarded Crude Oil Storage Contract at Mangalore Refinery
India’s Kerala State, BPCL Sign MoU to Expand Refinery
SINGAPORE
Shell Could Face up to $401,700 in Fines after Being Charged with Safety Lapses in Singapore Refinery Fire
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
THE NETHERLANDS
Foster Wheeler Awarded EPC Contract for Distillate Hydrocracker Upgrade by Netherlands’ Zeeland Refinery
EGYPT
Maire Tecnimont Announces New Contracts for over $173 Mln in Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals
NIGERIA
Inter-Ministerial Rivalry May Derail $4.5 Bln Nigeria Refinery Projects
SOUTH AFRICA
PetroSA Urges Govt to Advance $10 Bln to Hasten Mthombo Refinery Project
UGANDA
Growing Rift between Uganda and Partners Sets Back $2.9 Bln Oil Sector Plans
RUSSIA
TNK-BP to Invest $40 Million in Reconstruction of Treatment Facilities at Saratov Oil Refinery by 2016
Rosneft &Transneft to Construct an Offshoot of ESPO Trunk Pipeline Linking to Komsomolsk Refinery
KAZAKSTAN
Technip Awarded Two FEED Contracts worth $81 Mln for Refinery Projects in Kazakhstan
IRAQ
Iraq’s Kurdistan Refinery to Receive Help from Baghdad for Two-phased $1 Bln Expansion
ISRAEL
Israeli-owned Refinery Companies, Delek US & Alon USA Ride New U.S. Refinery “Golden Age”
Hydrocracker Project Update for Israel’s Oil Refineries Ltd
OMAN
Preliminary Design of Oman’s $6 Bln Duqm Refinery Project Underway