Subject: New Refinery Projects for June ’08
New refinery projects are reported monthly to Industrial Valves: World Markets http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#n028. Here are the project titles for the month of June ’08.
Refinery Updates June 2008
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
1. AMERICAS
U.S.
UOP Raises Prices for SPA Catalysts
Valero to Sell LA Refinery to Alon for $333 Mln
Big West Asks to Speed up Refinery Expansion Approval
Valero Expansions to Target Canadian Crude, Diesel
South Dakota Voters Approve Rezoning at $10 Bln for First New U.S. Oil Refinery in Decades
Louisiana’s $10 to $15 Bln Proposed Refinery Project Vanishes
Conoco Refinery Flare Compressor Snags
Big West Shuts Sulfur Recovery Unit at Bakersfield Refinery
Delaware Refinery Exempt from Pollution Reduction PlanFuel Prices Prompt a Surge in U.S. Refining Capacity
CANADA
North West Upgrading Awards KBR Contract for Bitumen Refinery
ARUBA
Vacuum 3 at Valero's Aruba Refinery Resumes Operation
ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires Seek Cleanup of Shell Refinery
CUBA
Cuba’s Cienfuegos Refinery Set to Produce 10,000 Bpd of New Derivative
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Dominican Government to Purchase Shell’s Stake in Refinery for $110 Mln
PANAMA
Refinery Project Part of Panama’s Plans to Become Regional Energy Hub
2. ASIA
CHINA
PetroChina's Gets Green Light for Sichuan Refinery
Sino-Kuwait 300,000 - 350,000 bpd Refinery Set to Move Forward In 2008
Aramco says China’s Fujan Refinery Boost to Start this Year
JAPAN
Nippon, CNPC to Form Refining JV in Japan
SOUTH KOREA
South Korea to build 40,000 bpd Diesel Hydrocracking Unit at Inchon Refinery
3. EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
EUROPE
Possible Emissions Trading Scheme Concerns European Refiners
SPAIN
Spain’s Tenerife Refinery to Perform Annual Maintenance Turnaround in the Catalytic Cracking Area
ROMANIA
Technip wins Contract to Provide Romania’s Petromidia Refinery with Hydrogen Plant
GHANA
Samsung Cancels Plan for Stake in Ghana Refinery
SOUTH AFRICA
Petrosa Ups Capacity at Planned $11 Bln Coega Refinery
SYRIA
China, Syria to Build 5-million-ton Oil Refinery
UKRAINE
PKN Orlen Might Join Ukraine $5 Bln Refinery Project
IRAN
Iran Inaugurates New $256 Mln Gas Refinery
KUWAIT
Kuwait Considers Integration of New Refinery at Al-Zour with Petrochem Complex
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Aramco, ConocoPhillips to Form JV for 400,000 bpd Yanbu Project
Total says Jubail Refinery Cost to Exceed $10 Bln
Saudi Jizan Oil Refinery Hits New Delay
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