Purpose: Optimize, troubleshoot, and design refinery process units to maximize throughput, yield, energy efficiency, reliability, and regulatory compliance while safeguarding people, assets, and the ...

Light US crude requires a different configuration at refineries Changing refinery setup can be a lengthy and expensive process Running different crude types impacts refinery yields, margin April 9 - U ...

The highly complex refineries located on the U.S. Gulf Coast could resume processing heavy Venezuelan crude oil in the years following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, possibly pushing out ...

The Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery could be a test case for how the state and local governments should handle refinery ...

I.1 Process monitoring and optimization: Lead daily technical stewardship of assigned units (e.g., crude/vacuum, hydrotreating, reforming, FCC, hydrocracking, sulfur ...

A central piece of a closed crude oil refinery in Convent recently came crashing down as Shell Oil shifts the nearly 60-year-old complex toward making renewable fuels, company officials confirmed. The ...

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Chevron’s push into Venezuelan heavy crude highlights a refining mismatch in U.S. energy markets, where complex refineries ...

This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Find out more at publichealthwatch.org. On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at ...

In recent months, a string of refinery fires, chemical releases and other disasters has put Californians on edge. Yet California regulators are quietly proposing to weaken the state’s safety rules in ...