New Refinery Projects for November 08
New refinery projects are reported monthly to Scrubber/Adsorber/Biofilter World
Markets http://www.mcilvainecompany.com//brochures/air.html#n008 . Here are the
project titles for the month of November '08.
REFINERY UPDATE
November 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
AMERICAS
U.S.
Cannot Rewrite BP Refinery Plea Deal According to Federal Judge
NACE Report Reveals Refinery Corrosion Causes $12 Billion Lost Profit
One Old, One New U.S. Oil Refinery Plans in the Works
Valero Reveals FCC Snag at McKee Refinery
Interline Resources' NorthCut Refinery Begins Operations
Hydrodec Opens Ohio Refinery for Reusable Transformer Oil
Tesoro Refinery's Flare Notification Delayed
California County Will Support $700 Million Big West Refinery Expansion
Safety-Kleen, Motor Oil Recycler Plans $15 Million Expansion of Refinery in East
Chicago
Flint Hills Awards Jacobs Diesel Desulfurizer Contract
New Hydrogen Plant to Serve Baton Rouge Refinery
Suncor Energy CEO Predicts Failure of Some U.S. Oil Refiners
Exxon Mobil Baytown Refinery Reports Flaring
BRAZIL
Technip gets $100 Million Contract from Petrobras
CUBA
New Investments in Cuba's Cienfuegos Oil Refinery
ST. LUCIA
Hess Denies Plans to Build $5 Billion St. Lucia Refinery
VENEZUELA
Venezuela's PDVSA Awards JGC Refinery Modernization Contract
ASIA
BANGLADESH
Bangladesh's 30,000 Bpd ERL Refinery Closed for Maintenance
CHINA
Second Big Refinery May be on the Horizon for China's Beibu Bay
CNOOC's Huizhou $146.3 Million Oil Terminal Port Approved
MONGOLIA
Japan Supports Mongolia's First Refinery for $1.2 Billion
VIETNAM
Vietnam's First Refinery to Start Test Run In February
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
BULGARIA
Lukoil to Spend $1.2 Billion on Bulgarian Refiner
FRANCE
Exxon May Shut 28,000 Bpd Gasoline Unit at French Oil Refinery
POLAND
Technip Awarded a New Contract for the Gdansk Refinery in Poland
CHAD / NIGER
China's CNPC Breaks Ground on Chad, Niger Refineries
NIGERIA
Nigeria's Kaduna Refinery Shutdown Again
SOUTH AFRICA
PetroSA Defends its Coega Refinery amid Concerns of Surplus Capacity
South Africa's Coega Refinery License Granted
Petrosa Makes Push for Coega-Gauteng Pipeline
RUSSIA
Local Petroleum Refinery to be Built in Primorye Region of Russia
IRAN
Kazakhstan Considers Refinery in Iran
ISRAEL
Oil Refineries Ltd. Okays $670 Million Hydro-Cracker for Haifa
SAUDI ARABIA
Riyadh Refinery Enlists New Weapon against Corrosion
Shaheen to Lead Saudi Aramco, Total JV
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