REFINERY INDUSTRY UPDATE

HEADLINES

January 2014

(Listed by most current date)

•          PetroChina Sichuan Refinery to Be Ready for Trial Production after Repeated Delays  (Project Dated: 1/20/2014)

•          BP Completes Commissioning of Whiting Refinery Units  (Project Dated: 1/16/2014)

•          AMEC Awarded $255 Mln Project Engineering and Management Services Contract  (Contract Dated: 1/16/2014)

•          Russia's Surgutneftegas Launches Europe's Largest Hydrocracker at Its Kirishi Refinery  (Project Dated: 1/16/2014)

•          Bashneft Says Production Unit Shut Down After Fire at Ufaneftekhim Refinery  (Article Dated: 1/16/2014)

•          Carlyle Group Ventures into Europe's Struggling Refining Sector by Teaming up with Vitol  (Article Dated: 1/16/2014)

•          Foster Wheeler Wins Contract for Nghi Son Hydrogen Reformers  (Contract Dated: 1/16/2014)

•          Foster Wheeler Awarded PMC Contract by STAR Rafineri for Turkey Grassroots Refinery  (Contract Dated: 1/16/2014)

•          China Launches Cleaner Gasoline Standards Requirement from January 2018  (Article Dated: 1/16/2014)

•          Saskatchewan’s Regina Refinery Reports Fire after LPG Explosion  (Article Dated: 1/14/2014)

•          Motiva to Shut Convent, LA Refinery Fluid Catalytic Cracker by 2016 During Transition to Diesel  (Article Dated: 1/14/2014)

•          Rosneft Installs New Reactors at Several Russian Refineries  (Article Dated: 1/14/2014)

•          Phillips 66 Shuts Los Angeles Refinery Reformer for Turnaround  (Article Dated: 1/14/2014)

•          CB&I Announces Its Bitumen Storage Tank Contract for NWR’s Sturgeon Refinery  (Contract Dated: 1/14/2014)

•          Foster Wheeler Wins Contract for Vietnam’s Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochem Complex  (Contract Dated: 1/14/2014)

•          Foster Wheeler Wins NWR’s Sturgeon Refinery Contract for Package Steam Generating Systems  (Contract Dated: 1/14/2014)

•          Honeywell Wins FEED to Automate Systems for Kuwait National Petroleum’s Al Zour Refinery  (Project Dated: 1/13/2014)

•          Gazprom Awards CB&I FEED Contract for Hydrocracker Complex in Siberia  (Project Dated: 1/13/2014)

•          More Bad News for European Refiners with Mild Winter Forecasts  (Article Dated: 1/13/2014)

•          Principal Technology to Supply Sulfur Recovery Units for Dakota Prairie Refining, LLC  (Project Dated: 1/13/2014)

•          EU Refiners Poised for One of Worst Years on Record as Closures Loom  (Analysis Dated: 1/10/2014)

•          Ivory Coast Gets $300 Mln Loan for Refinery from World Bank and SocGen  (Article Dated: 1/10/2014)

•          Irving Oil Adding 40,000 Bpd Alberta Crude Rail Loading Capacity  (Article Dated: 1/10/2014)

•          Ex-Im Bank Approves $641 Mln for the Export of U.S. Refinery Equipment to Turkey  (Project Dated: 1/10/2014)

•          Pemex Says New $10 Bln Tula Refinery Still On with End Date Unclear  (Project Dated: 1/9/2014)

·             Honeywell to Automate Systems for Kuwait’s Al Zour Refinery  (Project Dated: 1/2/2014)

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