Across The Wire

  1. Chemetry And Braskem To Build EDC Demonstration Plant Based On Breakthrough Chemical Production Technology 8/20/2020

    Chemetry, a technology innovation company dedicated to the development of environmentally sustainable chemical processes with superior economics, and Braskem, the leading producer of thermoplastic resins in the Americas, will construct and operate a Demonstration Plant using Chemetry's eShuttle® technology for the production of ethylene dichloride (EDC) in Brazil.

  2. Sypris Wins Order For Alberta XPress Gas Project 8/19/2020

    Sypris Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Sypris Solutions, Inc., announced today that it has recently received an order for its Tube Turns Tool-less closures. Production will begin immediately and is expected to be completed prior to year-end. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed

  3. Lummus Technology Announces Successful Start-Up Of CDTaee® Bio-Ethers Unit 8/18/2020

    Lummus Technology today announced the successful start-up of its CDTaee unit for Hellenic Petroleum's refinery in Aspropyrgos, Greece. For this start-up, the existing CDTame® unit was revamped to the latest generation of CDTaee technology for bio-ethers production

  4. Graham Corporation Awarded $11M In Orders For Three Projects In Asia 8/13/2020

    Graham Corporation, a global business that designs, manufactures and sells critical equipment for the oil refining, petrochemical and defense industries, today announced that it secured $11 million in orders for three oil refining projects in Asia

  5. Phillips 66 Plans To Transform San Francisco Refinery Into World’s Largest Renewable Fuels Plant 8/12/2020

    Phillips 66, a diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company, announced today that it plans to reconfigure its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to produce renewable fuels

  6. ExxonMobil And Global Clean Energy Holdings Sign Agreement For Renewable Diesel 8/11/2020

    ExxonMobil has signed an agreement with Global Clean Energy Holdings to purchase 2.5 million barrels of renewable diesel per year for five years from a converted California refinery starting in 2022

  7. California Air Resources Board (CARB) Approves VUV ASTM D8071-19 As An Equivalent Test Method To ASTM D6550-10 8/11/2020

    VUV Analytics Inc. announced today that ASTM D8071-19, the "Standard Test Method for Determination of Hydrocarbon Group Types and Select Hydrocarbon and Oxygenate Compounds in Automotive Spark-Ignition Engine Fuel Using Gas Chromatography with Vacuum Ultraviolet Absorption Spectroscopy Detection (GC-VUV)," has been granted equivalency to ASTM D6550-10 for the determination of olefin content in gasoline by the California Air Regulations Board (CARB), under Executive Order G-719-028

  8. Cameron LNG Train 3 Begins Commercial Operation 8/10/2020

    McDermott International Ltd. today announced the beginning of commercial operation of Train 3 at Cameron LNG, which is jointly owned by Sempra LNG, Total S.E., Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and Japan LNG Investment LLC, a company jointly owned by Mitsubishi Corporation and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK)

  9. EPIC Y-Grade Announces Completion Of First Greenfield Fractionator, Closing Of Strategic Transaction And Expansion Of Asset Base To Sweeny, Texas 8/5/2020

    EPIC Y-Grade, LP (“EPIC” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that a subsidiary has fully commissioned and placed into service its first 110,000 barrel per day greenfield fractionator at its Robstown, Texas, fractionation complex

  10. Air Products' AP-X® LNG Technology And Equipment Selected For First Phase Of Massive Expansion Project In Qatar 8/4/2020

    Air Products (NYSE: APD), the world's leader in liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology and equipment, has been selected to provide its proprietary AP-X® Natural Gas Liquefaction Process technology and equipment to Qatargas for the first phase of Qatar Petroleum's massive LNG production expansion project, commonly known as the North Field East (NFE) Project, in Ras Laffan, the State of Qatar. Each of the four new LNG process units, the largest LNG production trains in the world, will have a production capacity of 7.8 million tonnes per year