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Viet Nam has licensed a project on developing a petrochemical complex with investment of nearly 3.8 billion U.S. dollars in southern Ba Ria Vung Tau province. The complex, including the Long Son oil refinery, is scheduled to become operational in the second quarter of 2013. Its key investor is state-owned Viet Nam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam). The newspaper did not provide further

Viet Nam will provide financial support to the builders and subcontractors of the Dung Quat project, the country's first oil refinery, as costs increase. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the Viet Nam Oil & Gas Group, known as PetroVietnam, the project must be completed on time and be operational from February, according to a statement posted on the government's Web site today. Viet Nam

Environmentalists in Illinois have pushed a plan for a new refinery back to the drawing board.  It seems the refinery will be performing “flaring”, a process by which excess waste in the plant is burned off and carbon dioxide is released.  While the state of Illinois doesn’t have a particular emissions standard for flaring, environmentalists [...]

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has called for the acceleration of construction of the Dung Quat Oil Refinery to have the plant in operation by February 2009. Deputy PM Hai, who is also head of the State Steering Committee for Key Oil and Gas Works, made the request at a meeting in central Quang Ngai province on June 9 to discuss construction of the country’s first oil refinery. Putting

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Finally the folks of the United States have spoken out against the global warming hysteria by approving to rezone farm land for a new oil refinery.  The facility, when built, will create 1,826 new full-time jobs and during construction will require the services of 4,500 construction workers.  The people of South Dakota aren’t afraid of [...]

South Dakota residents should be proud of themselves. In a time when Washington, D.C. offers no solutions and double-talking politicians complain about gas prices while blocking any effort to drill domestically, South Dakota comes through with a solution. Build a big new refinery and force more domestic drilling! Now, nothing has happened yet and the enviro-wackos [...]

South Dakota residents should be proud of themselves. In a time when Washington, D.C. offers no solutions and double-talking politicians complain about gas prices while blocking any effort to drill domestically, South Dakota comes through with a solution. Build a big new refinery and force more domestic drilling! Now, nothing has happened yet and the enviro-wackos [...]

South Dakota residents should be proud of themselves. In a time when Washington, D.C. offers no solutions and double-talking politicians complain about gas prices while blocking any effort to drill domestically, South Dakota comes through with a solution. Build a big new refinery and force more domestic drilling! Now, nothing has happened yet and the enviro-wackos [...]

South Dakota residents should be proud of themselves. In a time when Washington, D.C. offers no solutions and double-talking politicians complain about gas prices while blocking any effort to drill domestically, South Dakota comes through with a solution. Build a big new refinery and force more domestic drilling! Now, nothing has happened yet and the enviro-wackos [...]

HOUSTON (Houston Chronicle) – Texas expanded its lead as the biggest producer of biodiesel fuel in the country with yesterday's opening of the nation's largest biodiesel refinery on the Houston Ship Channel. The facility, owned by Grapevine-based GreenHunter Energy, will...

Essar Oil’s refinery expansion project at Vadinar may turn out to be the only such upcoming project to be denied a 100% tax holiday available to refinery projects. This follows the finance ministry’s decision which allows refinery projects to enjoy the tax holiday only if they have a joint venture... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

EPC contractor has the first 18m3 diesel oil (DO) filled in the oil tank No1 of Dung Quat Refinery in Quang Ngai province on May 16. The oil was from PDC Company (PetroVietnam) to test-run a gas-furnace and power a generator. As of May 17, tank trucks will fill the refinery with 5,000 tonnes of DO. Other works will be completed by the end of May for operation of the refinery in December 2008

The Dung Quat Oil Refinery, the first of its kind in Viet Nam, will be put into operation to produce its major products in February 2009, says Truong Van Tuyen, head of the refinery management board. Mr Tuyen says they will include generators, boilers and a pipe system for trial run to start in late May. According to Mr Tuyen, more than 90 percent of the workload of bidding packages 1, 2, 3 and

Energy-hungry Viet Nam started building its second oil refinery on Saturday, a 6.2 billion dollar complex, in a bid to feed the nation's booming economy, the State Oil company announced. Viet Nam Oil and Gas Corporation (PetroVietnam), the oil monopoly in the communist nation, set up a joint-venture with its counterparts from Japan and Kuwait to build Nghi Son refinery in the north of the

Domestic and foreign investors are paying greater attention to Nghi Son Economic Zone in Thanh Hoa province for its favourable and transparent investment environment. A ceremony to kick off the construction of the Nghi Son Oil Refining and Petrochemical Complex is scheduled to be held tomorrow May 10. This will be the important impetus for the development of this economic zone. Nghi Son Economic

A ground breaking ceremony for one of the country’s largest and most important projects, the Nghi Son Petrochemical Refinery Complex, will take place tomorrow at Nghi Son Economic Zone, Tinh Gia District, in the northern province of Thanh Hoa. The project’s investors will officially receive their investment licence to start construction one month earlier than expected. The project has a total

Jakarta: PT Pertamina, Indonesia’s state oil company, and National Iranian Oil Refinery & Distribution Co will halve the capacity of a planned refinery in western Java because of limited crude supply. The refinery in Banten province will be able to process 150,000 barrels of crude a day compared with an earlier plan of 300,000 barrels a [...]

The construction of a breakwater project at the Dung Quat oil refinery in central Quang Ngai province was completed on May 2, 5 months ahead of schedule. The project was the first out of seven contract packages to be completed at Vietnam ’s first oil refinery. The breakwater, which is 1.6 km long, 11m wide and 10m high above the sea level, was built at a cost of 1.5 trillion VND (93.75 million

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged Can Tho City’s People’s Committee to weigh its licensing of the Can Tho Oil Refinery project, an investment of Vien Dong Corporation and China National Overseas Engineering Corporation. The sufficiency of crude oil sources for refining upon the project’s completion and the financial capacity of investors should be thoroughly studied, Dung said in his

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Bourbon Tay Ninh Sugar and Sugarcane Joint Stock Co (coded SBT) targets to attain 732.068 billion dong in total revenue and 202.017 billion dong in after-tax profit. Reportedly, last year the company gained 674.271 billion dong in revenue, 191.321 billion dong in after-tax profit and EPS of 1,348 dong. Regarding the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Ok, so any self respecting fashion blogger will no doubt have the UK fashion blog Style Bubble blogrolled on their blog and even secretly wishing they could be as fierce,daring and still oh-so fashionably cool as Suzie Bubble. Well, what have I just received in my Refinery 29 e-newsletter? None other than Miss Suzie Petewty telling it like it is. I heart Suzie! Suzie if you're reading this let me know when you're changing out your wardrobe, I'll be the chick dumpster-diving through your garbage out front.To read the article head over to Refinery29

Ok, so any self respecting fashion blogger will no doubt have the UK fashion blog Style Bubble blogrolled on their blog and even secretly wishing they could be as fierce,daring and still oh-so fashionably cool as Suzie Bubble. Well, what have I just received in my Refinery 29 e-newsletter? None other than Miss Suzie Petewty telling it like it is. I heart Suzie! Suzie if you're reading this let me know when you're changing out your wardrobe, I'll be the chick dumpster-diving through your garbage out front.To read the article head over to Refinery29

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Operation ← Previous revision Revision as of 02:20, 10 April 2008 Line 7: Line 7: Raw or unprocessed ("crude") oil is not useful in the form it comes in out of the ground. Although "light, sweet" (low viscosity, low sulfur) oil has been used directly as a burner fuel for steam vessel propulsion, the lighter elements form explosive vapors in the fuel tanks and so it is quite dangerous, especially so in [[warships]]. For this and many other uses, the oil needs to be separated into parts and refined before use in [[fuels]] and [[lubricants]], and before some of the byproducts could be used in [[petrochemical]] processes to form materials such as [[plastic]]s, [[detergent]]s, [[solvent]]s, [[elastomer]]s, and [[fiber]]s such as [[nylon]] an

State-run Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) formed a joint venture on Monday with Japan's third-biggest refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co. to construct a USD 5.8 billion refining and petrochemical complex in northern Viet Nam, launching the first-ever Kuwaiti-Japanese project to build a refinery in a third country. KPI, an international unit of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), and Idemitsu Kosan

The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on supplying crude oil to the Can Tho oil refinery aims to ensure stable production of right products at competitive prices. Vitol Broking Limited, the world leading oil and energy commercial group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on completing a feasibility study and supplying crude oil to the Can Tho oil refinery project. According to

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Viet Nam National Petroleum Corp., or Petrolimex, the country's biggest petroleum trader, is considering forming a joint venture with a foreign company to build a $2 billion oil refinery in Khanh Hoa province, a company official said Friday. The province is about 500 kilometers north of Ho Chi Minh City. "Petrolimex is preparing plans to invest to build the refinery in the Van Phong Bay area,"

Japan's Mitsui Chemical is expected to become the fourth partner of a joint venture to develop Viet Nam's second oil refinery in central Thanh Hoa province. The Nghi Son oil refinery has been the subject of long negotiations between state-owned Viet Nam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) and its two existing partners, Japan's Idemitsui and Kuwait's Petroleum International, local

Iran signed an agreement yesterday on setting up a planned 300,000 barrels per day oil refinery joint venture in Indonesia, together with a Malaysian partner, Iranian officials said.The plan to expand energy co-operation between the three countries may irritate Washington, which is spearheading a drive to isolate Tehran over sensitive nuclear work the West fears is aimed at building bomb.Iran, which in the face of UN and US sanctions is seeking alternative commercial partners in energy-hungry Asia, denies the charge.Iran and Indonesia also reached initial agreement on a planned 360,000 bpd plant to refine gas liquids in Iran's Gulf port of Bandar Abbas and an urea plant with a capacity of 1 million tonnes per year in southern Iran.The signing ceremony in Tehran coincided with a visit by In

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Kuwait Petroleum Corp is in talks with Indian firms, including Reliance Industries, to build a large refinery and petrochemical plant in Asia's third-largest oil consumer, its top official said on Thursday. A deal with leading private company Reliance, whose project to nearly double capacity will... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Kuwait Petroleum Corp is in talks with Indian firms, including Reliance Industries, to build a large refinery and petrochemical plant in Asia's third-largest oil consumer, its top official said on Thursday.A deal with leading private company Reliance, whose project to nearly double capacity will make it the world's largest refiner, or with a state firm would be a rare successful foreign foray, and give KPC a second Asian source for its crude after a similar deal in China."We always wanted to invest in Asia and India is one of the strategic places for us to invest, that's why we are here," Sa'ad Al Shuwaib, chief executive officer of state-owned KPC, said after meeting India's oil minister, Murli Deora."We are looking for something either with Reliance or any other company," he told journalists on his first visit to India since taking the post in October.KPC managing director Abdul Latif Al Houti said his firm would also again look at participating in Indian Oil Corp's 300,000 bpd

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There have been reports of a fire at the oil refinery in Coryton, Essex, emergency services are now at the scene to try and bring the fire under control following two explosions. The fire broke out at 11.30 GMT at the Petroplus Coryton refinery where BBC News reports that the fire is on the ground floor. It is reported that flames are 100ft high in the tower of the ground floor; fire crews have been using foam to tackle the blaze. A search has now been carried out and all personal are accounted for, there are no reports of any injuries. There are ten fire appliances and another seven special units trying to get the fire under control. Written by Peter for Product ReviewsIn Sections: News

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Saudi Aramco will shut down its 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) Rabigh refinery for at least a month for a planned turnaround from early next week, industry sources said on Wednesday. The shutdown... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Saudi Aramco will shut down its 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) Rabigh refinery for at least a month for a planned turnaround from early next week, industry sources said on Wednesday.The shutdown could last longer than a month because it also includes tying-up works that will link the plant to its new $10 billion joint-venture petrochemical complex with Japan's Sumitomo Chemical.Via: Trade ArabiaSumitomo Chemical,SaudiAramco,Saudi Arabia,energyblog

South Pars Technical Repair and Maintenance Company (TMC) managing director, Mohammad-Kazem Bahmani, said the first refinery of South Pars (SP) field has been overhauled and would become operational... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

South Pars Technical Repair and Maintenance Company (TMC) managing director, Mohammad-Kazem Bahmani, said the first refinery of South Pars (SP) field has been overhauled and would become operational in the near future. The refinery of the first phase of SP field has undergone a 14 day overhaul and is ready for operation at full capacity, PIN quoted Bahmani as saying. He added the offshore platform and refinery of the first phase were overhauled by the TMC engineers in Assalouyeh, southern province of Bushehr. "The pipeline of the first phase faces no problem for transferring gas from the offshore platform to the refinery," said the official, adding all safety valves were transferred from the offshore platform and repaired. The refinery of SP Phase one was put into operation in late October 2004, producing 25 million cubic meters of natural gas, 40,000 barrels of gas condensates, and 200 tons of sulfur per day.Via: Islamic Republic News AgencySouth Pars Technical Repair and Maintena

US firm Fluor Corp is still in talks with Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) for parts of a tender for its planned 615,000 barrels per day (bpd) al-Zour refinery, industry sources said. KNPC on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

US firm Fluor Corp is still in talks with Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) for parts of a tender for its planned 615,000 barrels per day (bpd) al-Zour refinery, industry sources said. KNPC on Saturday named around 19 firms pre-qualifying for four packages for the refinery construction to be completed in 2012, among them Italy's Snamprogetti, Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries, Japan's JGC and US firm Foster & Wheeler. The whole tender, which is due be launched in the fourth quarter, is worth around $14 billion, more than twice the initial estimate. Several sources told Reuters that engineering and construction company Fluor was still negotiating with the state refiner on a package to provide steam generation, water systems and other infrastructure for the processing, with one of them saying the deal was worth around $2 billion. "They might get it but it's not final," said the source who declined to be identified. Fluor already holds the project management contract for the refi

Kuwait has selected 17 international companies to bid for the construction of a $14 billion oil refinery after scrapping the first round of tenders because of inflated cost estimates. They include... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Kuwait has selected 17 international companies to bid for the construction of a $14 billion oil refinery after scrapping the first round of tenders because of inflated cost estimates. They include Italy's Snamprogetti and Technip, South Korea's GS Engineering and Construction, SK Engineering and Construction, Hyundai Engineering and Construction and Hyundia Heavy Industries. They also include Japan's JGC, UAE-based Petrofac International, France's Saipem and Britain's Foster Wheeler Energy and WGI Middle East. The project to construct the 615,000 (bpd) state-of-the-art refinery has been divided into four major parts - two manufacturing units, utilities and services, and finally storage tanks and a pier. The first round of bids was scrapped because tenders made came in at around $15bn, way above the initial budget of $6.3bn. The emirate's Supreme Petroleum Council, the highest oil authority, last week agreed to increase the budget to 4bn dinars ($14.3bn), the second rise in a few

Kuwait's top energy council has approved plans to build a 615,000 barrels per day refinery, the Middle East's biggest, after months of delays due to spiralling construction costs. Kuna said the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Kuwait's top energy council has approved plans to build a 615,000 barrels per day refinery, the Middle East's biggest, after months of delays due to spiralling construction costs. Kuna said the Supreme Petroleum Council had approved government plans to set up the country's fourth refinery. In July, state oil refiner Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) had increased the budget for the Al Zour refinery to about $14 billion, more than twice the original cost estimate. Rapidly rising costs in the energy industry have hit budgets and delayed refinery projects in the Middle East. The GCC state cancelled a first tender for the refinery in February, after bids came in far above its initial budget. Local media said some bids had reached as much as $15 billion. A new tender was launched and KNPC said in July around 30 companies had made preliminary bids. According to media reports, French firm Technip, US companies KBR, Bechtel and Foster Wheeler and Italy's Snamprogetti submit

Kuwait wants to drop Royal Dutch Shell as a partner and is instead considering BP in a project to build a $5 billion oil refinery in Guangdong in China, reports said yesterday.Shell had hoped to gain a foothold in the domestic fuel market of China, the world's second-largest energy consumer, through the Guangdong plant, after an attempt to take a share in another refining project failed last year.The refinery would be one of the largest joint venture investments in China, similar in size to the $5bn refinery to be built by ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco in Fujian.State-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and China's largest refinery Sinopec received preliminary Chinese government approval for the Guangdong plant last year.In August, Sinopec said Shell and US Dow Chemical Co were also in talks to participate.There were several reasons KPC no longer wanted Shell involved, including objections from China's National Development and Reform Commission, Kuwait's state news agency Kuna s

Kuwait wants to drop Royal Dutch Shell as a partner and is instead considering BP in a project to build a $5 billion oil refinery in Guangdong in China, reports said yesterday.Shell had hoped to gain a foothold in the domestic fuel market of China, the world's second-largest energy consumer, through the Guangdong plant, after an attempt to take a share in another refining project failed last year.The refinery would be one of the largest joint venture investments in China, similar in size to the $5bn refinery to be built by ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco in Fujian.State-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and China's largest refinery Sinopec received preliminary Chinese government approval for the Guangdong plant last year.In August, Sinopec said Shell and US Dow Chemical Co were also in talks to participate.There were several reasons KPC no longer wanted Shell involved, including objections from China's National Development and Reform Commission, Kuwait's state news agency Kuna s

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Royal Dutch Shell PLC, one of the world's largest oil companies, said today it will begin work to more than double the production capacity of its joint-venture refinery in Port Arthur, Tex. The expansion would make the refinery the largest in the United States, Shell said. The Port Arthur operation is run in co-operation with Saudi Refining Inc. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. "Shell's investment in the Motiva Port Arthur Refinery expansion will lead to increased supplies of gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels in the U.S.," the company said in a statement. Shell expects the expansion to boost capacity by 325,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day to 600,000 barrels, making the refinery one of the largest in the world as well as the biggest in the U.S. Shell shares were little changed at 2097 pence ($42.05) in trading today in London. Via|Associated PressTags: Motiva Port Arthur Refinery,Shell,Saudi Refining,USA,energyblogwww.BajaeNergyBLOG.com|Found this post u

Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, plans to build a 200,000-barrel-a-day refinery in partnership with five international oil companies, a spokesman for the nation’s state-owned oil company said.The plant, to be built in the Escravos area of the Niger delta, will involve Royal Dutch Shell , Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., Total SA and Eni SpA, Levi Ajuonuma, spokesman for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., said. The project should be completed by 2010, he said. Plc,Via: Teheran Times Advertise on The ENERGY DATA WAREHOUSEwww.BajaeNergyBLOG.com

``Repairs are ongoing and we expect to resume sour crude processing in the fourth quarter of 2007 and to restore the refinery to its full flexibility and crude capacity in the first half of 2008,''. Alaska, BP, Gazprom, Gulf of Mexico, Kovykta, OAO Gazprom, Shell

Yet again, we have environmentalists highlighting some dastardly plot by big business to pollute the environment solely in the interests of making more money. At least that’s what comes across when you read the article written recently in the Chicago Tribune (free signup required). But have they really found anything like that? Well, not really.  Yes, it’s true that there will be more contaminated water going into the lake but it’s still well below the level that BP are legally permitted to release. That, of course, is because the BP plant is presently doing more than is legally required of it to clean up any contamination that is released by the plant and that margin will be restored in due course.  Indeed the plant voluntarily reduced the “suspended solids” by 40% over the last four years as part of its policy of continuous improvement which is an approach that’s usually much more effective than any legal compulsion can ever be. They’re already intending to invest $1

In these days of global warming theatrics and perhaps downplaying of environment issues from the other side it becomes more and more apparent each day that someone needs to stand up and speak honestly about these issues. On the other hand what we do on this planet has to have some kind of impact one would think, but to what degree is the question. It is for this reason that environmental standards are set and those that do not heed those standards and laws are rightfully punished; when caught anyway. The main stream media says that it reports in an unbiased and even handed way, yet day in and day out one sees via the voice of the author and the words used often connote a very different impression. We’ve grown so used to it that we barely notice anymore unless we happen to know much of the detail already, which of course is possible with all the sources of information available at our fingertips with the help of the internet. I often find myself thinking the OpEd page

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The PetroVietnam Insurance Corp (PVI) on Thursday signed contract to fully insure Dung Quat Oil Refinery. PVI will provide policies for all of the refinery’s assets, transport equipment installation costs and staff from 2007-2012. The company did not disclose the exact financial terms of the contract, though wrote in a press release that "the best insurance schemes will be provided to Dung Quat, at competitive premiums and conditions." The US$2.5-billion Dung Quat Refinery is expected to be operational in 2009 and provide one third of the nation’s demand for refined petroleum products. Pham Hoai Nam, director of PVI’s Legal Department, said this is one of the biggest contracts the company has signed. PVI also insures Vietsovpetro oil rigs in a deal worth around $5 billion. Earlier this month, PVI reported a revenue of VND1.2 trillion ($75 million) for the first six months of the year, or 65 per cent of the company’s 2007 target. Some investment funds and foreign insurance firm

The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is plannig to build an oil refinery plant worth US$400 billion in Bojonegara, Serang, Banten, Iranian Ambassador to Indonesia Behrooz Kamalvandi said here on Saturday. "President Ahmadinejad, the supreme executive leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has met with the Indonesian president in Jakarta several months ago to sign various Indonesian-Iranian cooperation documents, including on the development of an oil refinery plant in Banten, the Iranian Ambassador said.

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Buy Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) at current market price for six month target of Rs. 49.00 Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) has informed BSE that Government of India has conferred Mini Ratna (Category-I) status to the Company in terms of erstwhile Ministry of Industry (now Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises), Department of Public Enterprises 0.M. No 11/36/97-Finance dated October 09, 1997.

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This could be a reason for the downturn in the price we have seen along with the results not being as good as expected(source:http://congoreading.blogspot.com/2007/06/le-poker-de-gertler.html) MetalsPlace Minerals company Chrometco appears to have been compelled to move its planned copper and cobalt refinery from SA to the Democratic Republic of Congo, as that country takes an ever-harder line on minerals beneficiation. The loss of jobs and investment to SA is an irony, as the South African government also has a policy insisting on local beneficiation of raw materials. In early March, the governor of Congo's Katanga province closed the border post to Zambia for three weeks to trucks carrying unrefined copper and cobalt ore, on the grounds that Congolese laws prohibited the export of ore that could be processed locally. The move trapped about 400 laden trucks. Mining companies said the Congo was blocking more than 5000 ton s a day of unrefined copper and cobalt due to be processed in

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has allowed the Viet Nam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) and partner Idemitsu to speed up its work on the Nghi Son refinery and petrochemical industrial complex project. The new complex is being built on 325 ha of land in Nghi Son commune, Tinh Gia district of the central province of Thanh Hoa and will cost close to 2.5 billion USD to complete.

by Wang Ying China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., Asia's biggest oil refiner, will take a stake in PetroChina Co.'s $2 billion oil-processing plant in Qinzhou in the southwestern province of Guangxi, a company official said. PetroChina, the local government and Sinopec, as China Petroleum is known, will invest in the refinery which obtained central government approval in February,

Indonesia is mulling over setting up a home refinery which is planned to be fed by Iran?s southern Sorush and Noruz crude oil, an Indonesian official said, MNA reported.The refinery would have a capacity of 300,000 barrels per day, and would be fed by the crude oil produced from Iranian Sorush and Noruz oilfields, the head of the Board of Directors of the Indonesia?s Pertamina added while speaking at First Iran?s Oil Refining Forum (IORF).

Thanks Jordan ! Link to full read at spewingforth Investigate almost any workplace disaster (or even small accidents) and you'll find that there were plenty of warning signs known to both workers and managers, but there was no existing management system to ensure that such warnings get addressed before disaster strikes. In addition, if you've been following the various investigations of the disaster -- from OSHA, as well as interim reports from the US Chemical Safety Board -- you know that plant managers had numerous warnings of unsafe conditions, malfunctioning equipment and previous "close calls."

Reuters reported that a contract worker was killed by electrocute at an idle residual hydrotreater at BP’s giant refinery in Texas City, Texas. The accident was occurred in June 2007. In fact, this processing unit had put in 8 millions man-hour without a lost time accident prior to last June 2007. What lesson can we get [...]

China National Petroleum Corporation plans to build a new refinery plant with production capacity of 5 million tons per year in Ningxia Hui, China. Investment cost for this project is 8.2 billion yuan and the new refinery plant is scheduled to be online at the end of 2010. Besides, China National Petroleum Corporation has invested 18.6 billion [...]