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Russian mid-sized oil producer Tatneft launched a new hydrocracking unit at its TANECO refinery, the company reported on ...
A topping unit can be an inexpensive, technically simple means to enhance the value of crude oil near the source of production. Crude oil distillation is an energy-intensive process that requires ...
Pemex [PEMX.UL] returned the main crude distillation unit (CDU) to production on Sunday at its 312,500 barrel-per-day Deer Park, Texas refinery, people familiar with plant operations said on ...
Crude oil is far from being one homogenous substance. ... and desulfurization units. These units enable the processing of heavy, ... fractional distillation, ...
Exxon Mobil Corp plans to shut a coker and crude distillation units (CDU) for maintenance work at its 520,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refinery in January, said sources ...
As of January 1, 2013, the United States had 139 operating refineries and 4 idle refineries with total atmospheric crude oil distillation capacity of 17.8 million barrels per calendar day (bbl/d ...
By focusing on the quality of crude oil and the stability of distillate production, refineries can improve profitability and contribute to sustainable practices LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM ...
The crude distillation unit at Citgo Petroleum Corp.’s 167,000-b/d Lemont, Ill., refinery remains out of service following a fire in the unit late on Oct. 23. Covering the operations of the oil ...
Crude oil is a complex mixture of tens of thousands of organic hydrocarbon molecules, Separating them requires energy-intensive thermal distillation processes that consume about 1% of global ...
The TotalEnergies refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, has been forced to shut down its two crude distillation units and two vacuum distillation units, due to a malfunction at the gasoline-producing ...
LyondellBasell Industries said it has halted operations of a crude and coker unit at its 290,000 b/d Houston refinery as the global chemicals company continued the oil refinery's scheduled ...
Russian mid-sized oil producer Tatneft has launched a new hydrocracking unit at its TANECO refinery, the company reported on ...