Plants & Facilities

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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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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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 ...

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Shell to Build Grease Plant in Indonesia

March 8, 2024

Shell announced on Monday plans to build its first grease manufacturing plant in Indonesia, producing products for appli ...

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OQ Chemicals Declares Force Majeure

March 5, 2024

OQ Chemicals yesterday declared force majeure for products manufactured at its Oberhausen, Germany, site – including s ...

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Blue Tide Completes First Phase of Project

February 14, 2024

Blue Tide Environmental announced today completion of the first phase of its base oils rerefinery in Baytown, Texas – ...

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Lack of Upkeep Hampers Turkmenbashi

February 13, 2024

Turkmenistan’s only base oil plant has been running at less than half of its 150,000 metric tons per year capacity due ...

Lukoil Refinery Struck in Drone Attack

Lukoil Refinery Struck in Drone Attack

February 6, 2024

Lukoil’s refinery in Volgograd, Russia, site of a major lubricant manufacturing complex, was struck last weekend by a ...

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Vickers Opening Food-grade Lube Plant

February 6, 2024

Vickers Oils announced it has built a lubricant blending plant in the Leeds, United Kingdom, area dedicated to productio ...

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Hongrun White Oil Project includes Group III Plant

February 2, 2024

Hongrun Petrochemical Technology Co. has commissioned a white oil project that includes an API Group III plant at its oi ...

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Eni to Shutter Livorno Base Oil Plant

January 30, 2024

Italian refiner Eni stated Monday that the base oil plant at its Livorno, Italy, fuels refinery will close permanently w ...