New Refinery Projects for Sept. 09

New refinery projects are reported monthly in McIlvaine Industrial Valves: World Markets http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#n028 reports.  Here are the project titles for the month of Sept. ’09:

REFINERY UPDATE

September 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

OVERVIEW

OPEC Has Bearish Outlook for Refining Margins

IEA Says Refinery Sales, Closures Needed To Combat Glut

AMERICAS

U.S.

CSB Team Investigating HF Releases at ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery

Petro Star on Track with Alaska Valdez Refinery Rebuild

BP Awards DTE Petcoke Terminal Services Contract with BP’s Whiting Refinery

U.S. Refinery Status: Unplanned and Planned Production Outages at U.S. Refineries

CANADA

Ivanhoe Issues Update on HTL Tamarack Upgrading Project

MEXICO

Hidalgo Bests Guanajuato in Mexico’s Pemex Refinery Bid

Bidding for Pemex Refinery Set for 2011

ASIA

CHINA

Sinopec, KPC Choose Zhanjing for $9 Bln Oil Complex

Construction on New Guangdong Province, PetroChina Refinery to Start In November

Sinopec Wins Okay for 20 Mln Ton Oil Refinery Expansion

VIETNAM / JAPAN

Idemitsu to Make Final Investment Decision on Vietnam JV Refinery while Looking Overseas for more Refinery Growth

Petrovietnam to Build $10 Bln plus Petchem Complex

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

GERMANY

Shell Awards EPC Contract to Technip for German Refineries “Connect” Project Technip has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Shell for the first phase of its "Connect" project in Germany. By connecting two existing refineries in Godorf and Wesseling, Shell will create the largest refinery in Germany: the Rheinland refinery.

IRELAND

ConocoPhillips Shuts Irish Whitegate Refinery for Maintenance

ITALY

Eni in Livorno Refinery Sale Talks with Klesch & Co

SWITZERLAND

Petroplus Shuts Down Swiss Refinery after Pipeline Incident

THE NETHERLANDS

Shell to Build HDS Plant at its Pernis Refinery

Dow Sells Interest in Dutch Refinery for $800 Mln

NORWAY

M.W. Kellogg to Upgrade StatoilHydro’s Karsto Gas Plant

UNITED KINGDOM

Essar Energy Submits Formal Bids for Three Shell UK Refineries

ANGOLA

KBR Wins Angola FCC, Hydroprocessing Tech Contract

MOZAMBIQUE

Mozambique’s Oilmoz will Relocate Proposed $8 Bln Refinery to Protect Elephants

SOUTH AFRICA

Petronas’ Engen Plans a Way Ahead for Refinery

UGANDA

Eni Eyes Uganda Refinery, Pipeline Projects

Uganda Issues international Tenders for Refinery Studies

RUSSIA

Fluor Wins $700 Mln Contract To Expand Sakhalin-1 OPF

Alfa Laval Receives $15 Mln Compact Heat Exchangers Order for Russian Refinery

MONGOLIA

CNPC Begins Construction of 5 Bln cm Inner Mongolia Gas Plant

IRAN

Abadan Oil Refinery Development Plan 80% Complete and will Come On Stream in 2010

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