Plants & Equipment

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Industrial Projects to Build Lube Plant in Russia

May 21, 2024

Russian company Industrial Projects expressed intentions last week to build a lubricant blending plant in the Rostov obl ...

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Caspian to Build Rerefinery Near Baku

May 21, 2024

Bulgaria’s Caspian Lubricants Recycling announced plans to invest in a new base oil rerefinery near Baku, Azerbaijan, ...

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Drone Damages Volgograd Refinery

May 14, 2024

Lukoil’s refinery in Volgograd, Russia, was struck again Sunday by a drone attack that caused a fire and reportedly da ...

Shell Sells Singapore Refining Complex

Shell Sells Singapore Refining Complex

May 10, 2024

A joint venture led by Indonesian chemical company Chandra Asri has agreed to buy Shell’s fuels and petrochemical refi ...

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OQ Restarts Production at German Plants

May 7, 2024

OQ Chemicals today announced the restart of production at its German plants in Oberhausen and Marl after overcoming a re ...

Operations Excellence: The Foundation of a Performing Plant Design

Operations Excellence: The Foundation of a Performing Plant Design

April 30, 2024

Longtime industry player Ganesan Ganapathi explains how operations excellence is the cornerstone of successful plant des ...

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Recycling Oil Containers into Roads

April 30, 2024

A ground-up mixture of drained plastic motor oil canisters can be used as a construction additive in road pavement mater ...

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Chinese Blenders Aim to Differentiate

April 26, 2024

Major Chinese blenders believe investing in differentiation, efficiency and expansion is the only way to attract big cli ...

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Joint Venture Builds Lube Plant in Angola

April 16, 2024

Angolan energy company Etu Energias and Malaysian lube marketer Glide Technology Sdn announced they will form a joint ve ...

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Drones Attack Taneco Refinery

April 9, 2024

A Ukrainian drone last week struck the Taneco refinery in Nizhnekamsk, which has an API Group II and Group III base oil ...

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Lukoil Builds Grease and Additives Plant

April 9, 2024

Lukoil broke ground recently on a grease, metalworking fluids and lubricant additives production facility in Volgograd.

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CNOOC to Add Blending Plant in Taizhou

April 5, 2024

China National Offshore Oil & Gas signed an agreement last month to build a large blending plant in Taizhou, Jiangsu ...

Drone Attacks Target Rosneft Refinery

Drone Attacks Target Rosneft Refinery

March 26, 2024

Rosneft’s refinery in Novokuybyshevsk, Russia, was targeted by Ukrainian drone strikes twice last week, the latest in ...

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Grease Plant Construction Starts in Vietnam

March 22, 2024

Vietnamese Top Solutions Joint Stock Co. has begun constructing a new grease plant in Phuoc Nam Industrial Park. The gre ...

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Novel Sets Up Blending in the U.S.

March 20, 2024

Novel Reliable Technologies announced it is expanding its presence in North America with blending and warehouse capabili ...

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Cerilon to Use Chevron Technology

March 13, 2024

Gas-to-liquids startup Cerilon said today that it has agreed to license Chevron processing technology for its base oil a ...

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Russian Blender Makes Metal Containers

March 12, 2024

Russian lubricant blender United Petrochemicals opened a line that produces metal motor oil containers designed to comba ...

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Fire Breaks Out at Port-Jerome Refinery

March 12, 2024

The status of base oil production at ExxonMobil’s refinery in Port-Jerome-sur-Seine, France, was unclear after a broke ...