Refinery. Medical search. Frequent questions

Valdez firefighters begin stretching hoses to attack a fire in a tanker truck at the Petro Star refinery in Valdez on Thursday, July 11, 2019. (adn.com)
Cameroon's problems have been compounded by its heavily indebted and inactive 42,000-barrel-per-day-capacity refinery, which has been offline since May 2019 after a storage tank exploded, sparking a fire and bringing down four production units. (nasdaq.com)
SONARA, which operates the country's lone refinery and is also responsible for imports of refined products, owes it trading partners around 261 billion CFA francs ($391.80 million) out of a total debt of 1,000 billion CFA francs ($1.5 billion) as at Dec. 31, 2019. (nasdaq.com)
ISLAMABAD: The Attock Institute of Horticulture (AIH), a subsidiary of Attock Refinery Limited (ARL) since 2019 as. (brecorder.com)

In this undated photo released by the US Chemical Safety Board, structural damage is shown after the Chevron refinery fire in Richmond, California. (readersupportednews.org)
Structural engineers have deemed the site of a Chevron refinery fire in the San Francisco Bay area hazardous for human entry after looking at the failed pipe that leaked and sent a towering plume of black smoke into the sky. (readersupportednews.org)

In 2021, OPEC's refinery capacity amounted to 12.9 million barrels per calendar day. (statista.com)
The country's refinery capacity amounted to some 3.3 million barrels per calendar day that year. (statista.com)

The report concluded that BP had not established "a positive, trusting and open environment with effective lines of communication between management and the workforce" at its Texas City, Toledo and Whiting refineries. (industryweek.com)
About 17 miles southeast of downtown Chicago, in northwest Indiana, stands bp's Whiting refinery. (bp.com)
In October 2022, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb visited the Whiting refinery for a ceremonial signing of the state's first-ever carbon sequestration bill - a key step for future carbon capture and storage investments. (bp.com)
By the end of the year, the oil giant BP is expected to complete work on new equipment that will more than triple the amount of petroleum coke produced by its Whiting refinery on Lake Michigan. (chicagotribune.com)
If the piles were at the Whiting refinery, BP would be obligated to enclose them under the terms of its Clean Air Act permit and a federal legal settlement. (chicagotribune.com)
The amount of petcoke generated by Whiting and other U.S. refineries has steadily increased during the past decade as the industry processes more Canadian oil that is thicker and dirtier than many other grades. (chicagotribune.com)
BP will produce more than 2.2 million tons of petcoke a year at Whiting, up from about 700,000 tons before the refinery was overhauled to process oil from the tar sands region of Alberta. (chicagotribune.com)
About five days' worth of petcoke can be stored at the Whiting refinery, BP said in an email response to questions. (chicagotribune.com)
BP Whiting is complying with its permit regarding coke handling at the refinery," said Scott Dean, a company spokesman. (chicagotribune.com)

Husky Energy, Inc., says it doesn't expect the Superior refinery to resume normal operations until 2020. (startribune.com)
While the number of global refinery transactions took a dip in 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is still significant interest in these assets. (mckinsey.com)
Washington refineries regularly exceed air pollution regulations and have been fined for Clean Air Act violations in 2005, 2011, twice in 2016, and 2020. (sightline.org)
Among them was a proposal for heavyweight Russian oil and gas company Tatneft to research and implement an oil refinery project by 2020. (phnompenhpost.com)
REGINA, March 31, 2020 /CNW/ - After carefully analyzing the final offer tabled on March 30, 2020 by Co-op Refinery, the Unifor Local 594 Bargaining Committee is recommending the membership reject the offer when the forced final vote is conducted by the Saskatchewan Labour Board. (newswire.ca)
Reduce greenhouse gases and promote climate solutions: The proposal would improve energy efficiency 20 percent by 2020 which would reduce greenhouse gas and toxic emissions at the refinery. (earthjustice.org)
The stockpile draw with the world's biggest oil consumer was largely thanks to the ramp-up of refinery output and lower imports, even as domestic production reached its highest since April 2020. (yahoo.com)

Damaged cars are seen following a blast at a Nigerian oil refinery on April 23, 2022, in this photo released by the Rivers State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps. (cnn.com)
In 2021 and 2022, the average transaction rate of refinery assets-as measured by both the number of refineries and capacity-showed strong recovery, with 25 refineries changing ownership, representing 2.5 million barrels per day of capacity (Exhibit 1). (mckinsey.com)

The oil refinery, which has yet to reopen, is now part of Calgary, Alberta-based Cenovus Energy, which bought Husky in 2021. (startribune.com)
Shell completes sale of Washington Puget Sound refinery to HollyFrontier," Cision PR Newswire, November 1, 2021. (mckinsey.com)

Hann Khieng, managing director of Cambodia Petrochemical Company (CPC), which has partnered with Chinese firms to build a $2.3 billion oil refinery in Kampot province, said Pheap's proposed refinery is an unrelated project. (phnompenhpost.com)

ConocoPhillips also would not discuss whether the hydrofluoric acid used at the Ferndale refinery travels by rail through Seattle or is trucked in, which would likely take the material through heavily populated areas, or if it is brought in by water across Puget Sound. (crosscut.com)
As demand for oil drops, Puget Sound refinery communities can plan ahead for a smooth transition-protecting workers, local economies, and the environment to build a thriving and resilient future. (sightline.org)

Stay updated with the latest ExxonMobil Basestocks news with the Taking Stock e-newsletter, which offers key insights into the industry, along with exclusive updates on our global refinery expansion projects. (exxonmobil.com)

Tankers bringing crude petroleum to the refineries from exotic destinations from around the world have received persistent climate activist attention. (earthisland.org)

The U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed that BP pay more than $3 million in fines for 42 alleged safety violations at a joint-venture refinery with Husky Energy in Oregon, Ohio, near Toledo. (industryweek.com)
BP was cited again by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for safety violations, this time for alleged hazards at a joint-venture refinery with Husky Energy in the Toledo, Ohio, area. (industryweek.com)
A final federal report on the 2018 Husky Energy refinery explosion in Superior, Wis. (startribune.com)

Construction of the refinery started in 1996 by Essar Oil . (wikipedia.org)
Gujarat is already home to the gigantic Reliance Industries refinery as well as Essar Oil, which was recently sold to Rosneft of Russia. (thehindubusinessline.com)

The effects of its closure in 2018 were many: water rates increased for Superior residents with the loss of the city's biggest customer, and refinery workers lost jobs. (startribune.com)

The cause of a fire in a truck taking on fuel at a Valdez refinery last week remains under investigation, local officials say. (adn.com)
State officials at the Ecology and Transportation departments and the State Patrol likewise were unsure how the potent acid gets to the refinery. (crosscut.com)
A mysterious cluster of crude oil storage tanks recently constructed on the coast near Kampot are linked to a $400 million project by timber baron Try Pheap to build an industrial park and oil refinery, government officials confirmed yesterday. (phnompenhpost.com)
Pandering for votes by holding pointless meetings with refinery and union officials isn't solving anything. (phillymag.com)

The unit is a common piece of equipment at oil refineries used to refine crude oil into higher octane fuels. (startribune.com)
And when the push for green fuels outweighs the need for refined oil products, these refineries could have a second life as green manufacturing facilities such as renewable diesel or sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facilities. (mckinsey.com)
Other parts of the refinery, which supplies 16 percent of California's daily gas consumption, are still producing fuels. (readersupportednews.org)
He said Pakistan's refined products consumption was 15.8 million tonnes last year and the 4.5-million-tonne Indus refinery will 'significantly reduce the deficit' of fuels. (gulfnews.com)
In the refinery corridor of the North San Francisco Bay, which is the direct source of all the liquid fuels consumed on the North Coast of California, one refinery was forced into an immediate shutdown. (earthisland.org)

Washington's other four refineries don't use hydrofluoric acid. (crosscut.com)
And, as will be shown in this chapter, Washington's oil refineries have a checkered past of violating the regulations designed to protect their workers, the environment, and people living in their vicinity. (sightline.org)

Black smoke can be seen rising from the refinery, which is in the immediate vicinity of Mamaia, the country's largest sea resort. (rferl.org)
Built during communism, Romania's largest refinery is located just several kilometers north of the Black Sea port of Constanta and in the immediate vicinity of Mamaia, the country's largest sea resort. (rferl.org)

The starting point of first Lube Refinery is a Crude Distillation Unit and subsequent Vacuum Distillation Unit, whereas the Second Lube Refinery directly starts with a Vacuum Distillation as it takes feedstock from Fuel Refinery's Crude Distillation Unit. (nrlpak.com)
The second Lube Refinery starts with a vacuum distillation unit. (nrlpak.com)

BP employees were exposed to the risk of serious injury or death from the potential release of flammable and explosive materials in the Toledo refinery because of process safety management failures, according to OSHA. (industryweek.com)

Located on the Paraguana Peninsula in northwest Venezuela, the Amuay refinery is one of the world's largest and is capable of processing up to 630,000 barrels per day of crude oil. (nasa.gov)
Bitung North Sulawesi, Indonesia - Thirty Greenpeace activists are currently occupying a palm oil refinery belonging to Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil trader and supplier to major brands including Colgate, Mondelez, Nestlé and Unilever. (greenpeace.org)

Curb air pollution: Chevron would install the same kind of flaring prevention equipment already in place at the Shell refinery in nearby Martinez. (earthjustice.org)
In many ways Carquinez Strait is the geographical heart of the "refinery corridor" that stretches from the City of Richmond up along the north east shore of the Bay and through the strait ultimately to the last open waters of the delta in Benicia and Martinez. (earthisland.org)
Shortly after shelter-at-home orders were announced the Marathon refinery in Martinez suddenly stopped processing petroleum and switched to only operating fuel storage and distribution infrastructure. (earthisland.org)

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, invites interested members of the community to attend a public availability session regarding the public health assessment on the Omaha Lead Refinery site that ATSDR recently issued for public review and comment. (cdc.gov)

The Vadinar refinery is an oil refinery at Vadinar , Gujarat , India. (wikipedia.org)

The OSHA penalties are the largest fines the safety agency has levied on the Superior refinery in a decade. (startribune.com)
Similar to the way a significant portion of the industry's tax bill goes toward mitigating the problems it creates , most of the fines levied against refineries for pollution violations actually go toward upgrading refinery equipment and processes that should have already happened. (sightline.org)

Several months after the report was published, OSHA announced it was stepping up oversight of oil refineries through a formal process known as a "national emphasis program. (industryweek.com)
Ensuring the mechanical integrity of critical equipment used during the refinery shutdown operation could have prevented this incident," OSHA spokesman Mark Hysell said in a statement. (startribune.com)
OSHA also found that the refinery had failed to identify "critical hazards" in its own manufacturing process, hadn't developed a written procedure with "clear instructions" for an emergency shutdown, and hadn't adequately trained employees on certain aspects of shutdown procedures. (startribune.com)
The Twin Ports Action Alliance, a citizen's group created in the days after the refinery explosion that has called for closer scrutiny of the plant, denounced the size of the OSHA fine as insufficient. (startribune.com)

The oil refinery explosion and fire that rocked Superior, Wis. (startribune.com)
Reports of an explosion and fire at the Petro Star Refinery on Dayville Road came in at 8:32 p.m. Thursday, according to the Valdez Fire Department. (adn.com)

Provision of up to USD 250 million sovereign loan to Alexandria Petroleum Company (APC) to exclusively finance a package of energy and water efficiency investments to modernize and upgrade the refinery with processes capable of producing higher value added products, improving the energy efficiency and the overall performance, as well as reducing the environmental impacts. (ebrd.com)
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, Asia's largest oil refiner, said the assets include a 100,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery in Cape Town, a lubricants plant in Durban as well as 820 petrol stations and other oil storage facilities. (foxbusiness.com)
About 90 percent of the petroleum products consumed in Cascadia-our gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and more-are refined at five refineries sitting on the shores of the Salish Sea. (sightline.org)
The five 2-million-litre tanks are part of 20 crude oil storage tanks slated for construction on a 51-hectare port project the tycoon is developing in Kampot province's Teuk Chhou district, and connected to a special economic zone (SEZ) and oil refinery that his subsidiary petroleum company intends to build on an adjacent 268 hectares of land, they said. (phnompenhpost.com)
PAPA Petroleum Co Ltd, Pheap's wholly-owned private fuel distribution company, submitted plans for the SEZ and refinery to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), which has appointed the Ministry of Commerce to verify the company's claim of land ownership, according to Sam Serei Rath, an undersecretary of state at the ministry. (phnompenhpost.com)
When commissioned in the first quarter of 2009, Indus Refinery will increase Pakistan's 12.77 million tonne annual petroleum refining capacity by 35 per cent. (gulfnews.com)

Last week, the company said it had partially shutdown the refinery owing to severe water shortage in the region. (deccanherald.com)
Considering the acute shortage of fresh water in the river Nethravathi, in absence of summer showers, MRPL Refinery Complex process units are under partial shutdown as a force majeure," it had said. (deccanherald.com)

Cenovus this week said that when the refinery reopens early this year, it will continue to use the chemical needed for producing high octane gasoline, which requires the use of hydrogen fluoride in its alkylation process. (startribune.com)

JEC ) announced today that it was awarded a contract from Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Co. (Luberef) to provide project management consulting (PMC) services for an expansion project at its lube oil refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. (aol.com)
Of that, Saudi Arabia was the leading OPEC member country by refinery capacities . (statista.com)

In September, Berlin took control of the assets of Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft, which ran a number of refineries in the country. (rt.com)

The 126,000 barrel per day refinery, located near Karachi's Port Qasim, is 80 per cent owned by PSI Energy Holding Company owned by British entrepreneur Ryan Cornelius. (gulfnews.com)

Just weeks before the five-year anniversary of a blast that killed 15 people at BP PLC's Texas City, Texas, refinery, the British oil giant was cited again by federal regulators who are stepping up efforts to enforce safety requirements at chemical processing facilities. (industryweek.com)
Federal regulators and investigators are stepping up inspections and enforcement of safety policies and management within U.S. oil refineries to prevent such incidents as the 2005 BP Texas City, Texas, explosion pictured below. (industryweek.com)
DULUTH - When the former Husky Superior oil refinery reopens this year under new management, it faces heightened scrutiny as regulators have said the accident that caused $550 million in damages and injured nearly 40 workers was avoidable. (startribune.com)
We call on refineries, trade groups and regulators to examine our final report and apply the key lessons to help ensure safe operations at facilities throughout the country," said board member Sylvia Johnson. (startribune.com)

COLLADA Refinery''' is an open-source content pipeline tool for COLLADA. (khronos.org)
Here I continue on Refinery and show how to add database-backed content by generating an engine. (railscasts.com)
In this episode we're going to continue our look at the Refinery content management system. (railscasts.com)

In today's rapidly changing energy landscape, refinery transactions have become a focal point of investment discussions. (mckinsey.com)
This would probably mean large scale production of the substance, comparable to today's oil refineries. (lu.se)

The refinery is India's second largest single-location refinery, with an annual capacity of 20 million tonnes (405,000 barrels per day) and a complexity of 11.8, which also makes it among the world's most complex refineries. (wikipedia.org)
The refinery configuration lends itself well to de-bottlenecking and its capacity is enhanced to 14 mtpa in 2009. (wikipedia.org)
In 2012, the refinery was expanded to a capacity of 20 a million tonnes per annum. (wikipedia.org)
Our US refineries represent about 40% of bp's global refining capacity. (bp.com)
The refinery is 85 percent owned by the Bashkir Capital investment fund and is the smallest of three in the region, with a production capacity of about 130 million barrels a year, reports the AP. (pravda.ru)
OPEC's refinery capacity presented a trend of growth over the years, despite some fluctuation. (statista.com)
Capacity excludes condensate refineries. (statista.com)
Tetra Tech provided significant support to increase the capacity and safety of gasoline and distillate transport, including a new a 243-kilometer pipeline between the Jean-Gaulin refinery and the Montreal East terminal. (tetratech.com)

For over a hundred years, Richmond was a classic company town, whose politics, economy and environment were defined by Chevron and the pollution spewing from the refinery, which caught fire every few years. (kboo.fm)
Refinery air and water pollution negatively impacts human health and local wildlife. (sightline.org)
The four largest refineries are among the top eight sources of carbon pollution in Washington State, emitting more than 6 million metric tons annually. (sightline.org)
and indirect pollution from consuming the refineries' products. (sightline.org)
In this chapter, we discuss the impacts of direct pollution of refinery operations. (sightline.org)
Refinery pollution contributes to existing racial and socio-economic health disparities in Washington, such as higher asthma prevalence among Black and Native American people. (sightline.org)
A few examples illustrate how Washington refineries regularly exceed air pollution regulations, contributing even more to adverse health impacts to Washington residents living nearby. (sightline.org)
Regardless of the imposing structures along the shores of the Bay, or the giant tankers dwarfing small fishing boats, it is impossible to ignore the inevitable changes confronting an industry whose environmental and social pollution have exacted tremendous costs from the communities that live along the refinery corridor, as well as the global climate. (earthisland.org)

After the explosion, residents demanded the removal of hydrogen fluoride from the refinery and federal investigators advocated for a review of its use. (startribune.com)
Intro: "An internal Chevron Corp. surveillance video shows a towering vapor cloud engulfing an area of its refinery for two minutes before it ignited into a volatile blaze, federal investigators said Tuesday. (readersupportednews.org)

The Cameroon government said last week it will launch a tender soon in search of partners to build a new refinery that will include a new hydrocracking unit. (nasdaq.com)

It will be a 200,000 barrels per day refinery at Khalifa Point in the Hub district of Balochistan province. (gulfnews.com)

The Italian government has placed a refinery in Sicily owned by Russia's largest private oil company, Lukoil, under state trusteeship, days ahead of an EU embargo on Russian crude oil imports, AFP reported on Thursday, citing government sources. (rt.com)
Another project would see Russia's state-owned Gazprom, a company in which Putin has shares, deliver crude oil and assist with refinery procedures. (phnompenhpost.com)

In 2012 a massive fire ripped through the Chevron Richmond Refinery, sending a towering plume of toxic smoke into the air over Richmond, California. (kboo.fm)
On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Steve Early, whose new book REFINERY TOWN: Big Oil, Big Money and the Remaking of an American City , traces the community organizing and initiatives that are turning Richmond into one of the greenest and most progressive cities in America. (kboo.fm)
In Richmond, over 10,700 people have filed claims to have the medical and property damage expenses resulting from the August 6th refinery fire reimbursed by the oil company. (sfist.com)
A fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. has prompted shelter-in-place for Richmond, N. Richmond, and San Pablo. (sfist.com)
Chevron's Refinery is the largest air emitter in Richmond and the largest industrial greenhouse gas polluter in the state," said Jessica Tovar from Communities for a Better Environment. (earthjustice.org)
Richmond already suffers from refineries' toxic fallout that causes asthma, cancer, and lung disease. (earthjustice.org)
Create good jobs: The proposal would increase green jobs in renewable energy by requiring installation of solar energy at the refinery and in the Richmond community. (earthjustice.org)
Background: On June 4, 2009, the Contra Costa County Superior Court ruled that the Environmental Impact Report for a planned expansion of Chevron's refinery in Richmond, California should have addressed changes in the grade of crude oil the refinery would process after the expansion, as well as methods for mitigation of any increase of greenhouse gas emissions the expansion would cause. (earthjustice.org)
With the support of community groups and other stakeholders, the Attorney General's office has now crafted a proposal that would permit a refinery expansion while offering increased protection to Richmond residents and the environment. (earthjustice.org)

said on Wednesday it has agreed to pay almost $1 billion for a 75 percent stake in Chevron Corp's South African assets and its subsidiary in Botswana, securing its first major refinery on the continent. (foxbusiness.com)
Attock Refinery Limited (ATRL), a subsidiary of the Attock Oil Company Limited, saw its profit-after-tax (PAT) jump. (brecorder.com)
Attock Refinery Limited, a subsidiary of Attock Oil Company Limited, on Wednesday, announced that it will curtail. (brecorder.com)

NRL's two Lube Refineries were installed with a time gap of nearly 19 years with each other. (nrlpak.com)
Whereas the downstream process units are same in basic technology, the Second Lube Refinery being designed in Eighties has more sophisticated, advanced and energy efficient plants. (nrlpak.com)
The primary process unit of the Lube-I Refinery is distillation of electrically Desalted Crude Oil in two stages. (nrlpak.com)
Same PDA unit installed at second Lube Refinery is designed with an improved extraction of heavy lubricating oil with minimal losses of Propane Solvent and energy. (nrlpak.com)
The Furfural Extraction Unit installed in second Lube Refinery, employs advanced techniques ensuring better solvent recovery and energy conservation. (nrlpak.com)
At M..E.K. Dewaxing Unit of Lube-II Refinery, the process has been improved which has resulted in higher yields and has considerably reduced solvent losses. (nrlpak.com)
The hydrofinished lube oils are dispatched to refinery storage tanks for distribution to Oil Marketing/Lube Oil Blending Companies. (nrlpak.com)

Community organizers in the refinery corridor, having confronted for years the different industry efforts to cloak expansion plans with "green" rhetoric, were immediately skeptical. (earthisland.org)

The seaport was designed to handle oil shipments, but at the time the possibility of crude oil imports or a refinery was not discussed. (phnompenhpost.com)

A fire caused by rupture of a natural gas pipeline broke at oil refinery in central Russia Tuesday, an emergency official said. (pravda.ru)
Refinery is an example of a COLLADA-based conditioning pipeline application. (khronos.org)
The COLLADA Refinery is open source, so additional individual conditioners can be developed to provide COLLADA users with a powerful, ready-to-use pipeline for their end application. (khronos.org)
To use the pipeline, a user would assemble a pipeline with the individual conditioners they need and then, as the final step, format the file to their application's binary-specific format, using their own plug-in for Refinery. (khronos.org)
This shows a COLLADA Refinery tool window displaying a pipeline of two conditioners in series. (khronos.org)

PG&E releases photos of power line damage from last week's winds, yesterday's refinery explosion caused a 15-acre grass fire, and a Facebook engineer says he was fired for speaking out about a colleague's suicide. (sfist.com)
Refinery fire in Rodeo. (sfist.com)
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) has claimed responsibility for a rocket attack that set an oil refinery in northern Iraq on fire. (rt.com)

The refinery project was delayed several times due to environmental concerns and financial problems, including initial cost overruns and a shortfall in equity contributions. (wikipedia.org)
Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (hereinafter " the Company, " " ORL " ) , Israel's largest integrated refining and petrochemical group, announced today about the status of the Hydrocracker Project. (prnewswire.com)
The Project is part of a programme of investments to improve the environmental performance of the Alexandria refinery and produce better quality (Euro 5) diesel for the local market. (ebrd.com)
The Project and wider programme are in line with EU Best Available Techniques (BAT) for the sector and, together with an E&S Action Plan which has been agreed with the Company, will bring the refinery into compliance with the Bank's E&S requirements (the PRs) and EU BAT. (ebrd.com)
Jacobs Group Vice President Bassim D. Shebaro stated, 'Jacobs is delighted to continue our partnership with Luberef by working on this significant project at the Yanbu Refinery. (aol.com)
See Refinery on Mac OS X for build and installation instructions and a small example conditioner project using Xcode. (khronos.org)
Residents of Nanar village in Ratnagiri district stage a protest against the proposed oil refinery project. (thehindubusinessline.com)
According to Kong Bunra, a local commune chief who claimed he was informed but not involved in the project, a total of 20 crude oil storage tanks are to be built at the port by the time the oil refinery becomes operational. (phnompenhpost.com)
Pheap appears to have been courting Russian investors for the refinery project. (phnompenhpost.com)
Dubai: Construction of a new $750 million privately owned Pakistan refinery will begin next month, the company that owns the project said. (gulfnews.com)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz recently said the government was in the process of finalising a refinery project with Abu Dhabi. (gulfnews.com)

Located near Bellingham, Washington, bp's Cherry Point is the largest refinery in the Pacific Northwest. (bp.com)
It was the first northwest refinery capable of co-processing renewable diesel made from biomass-based feedstocks. (bp.com)
It's important to consider all three categories because Northwest refineries do not exist in isolation. (sightline.org)

The refinery, which is on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, was processing palm oil from major producers that are destroying rainforests in Kalimantan and Papua, Indonesia. (greenpeace.org)
Multiple videos showed a refinery in Indonesia going up in flames, injuring five people and forcing 950 residents to be evacuated. (sky.com)

Upstream" refers to oil extraction and transportation to the refineries. (sightline.org)
The hit to the Marathon refinery was the type of event that informed observers of the industry have been suggesting would be inevitable without integrated planning for anticipating refinery decommissioning and a managed decline of fossil fuel extraction and processing. (earthisland.org)

Bechtel announced today that it has signed a license agreement with JSC Pavlodar Oil Chemistry Refinery (POCR) for a major modernization and process design of a delayed coking unit (DCU) complex in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. (bechtel.com)

A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value. (wikipedia.org)
Guide to Refining Archived 2006-08-08 at the Wayback Machine from Chevron Oil's website Refinery flowchart Archived 2006-06-28 at the Wayback Machine from Universal Oil Products' website An example flowchart Archived 2005-12-22 at the Wayback Machine of fractions from crude oil at a refinery Gunter Alfke, Walther W. Irion & Otto S. Neuwirth (2007). (wikipedia.org)
In terms of product yield, the refinery has the flexibility to produce higher value, high-quality products, including gasoline (petrol) and gas oil (diesel) conforming to Euro IV and Euro V norms, that have growing acceptance in both domestic and international markets. (wikipedia.org)
Fifty out of the United States' 148 oil refineries use hydrofluoric acid to boost octane levels of their products, even though less-toxic alternatives exist. (crosscut.com)
Downstream" refers to transportation of refined products from refineries to consumers and beyond. (sightline.org)
Low sulphur diesel, unleaded gasoline and jet fuel are among the products that the refinery will produce. (gulfnews.com)
A refinery is a factory where raw materials are transformed into useable products such as chemicals. (lu.se)

The Vadinar Refinery benefits from a fully integrated infrastructure including India's only captive coal-fired power plant to provide power and process steam, a port, pipelines and tankage, with multi-modal product dispatch facilities through rail, road, and sea giving it a unique cost advantage. (wikipedia.org)

Along with tremendous fiscal impacts for local governments from the loss of tax revenue, the threat of sudden and unanticipated refinery shutdowns carry with them massive risks of abandoned toxic industrial infrastructure in places that for all intents and purposes have long been industrial sacrifice zones. (earthisland.org)

Yet the refinery closure was still a shock to frontline communities. (earthisland.org)

The Italian government is working on a "temporary solution" to keep the refinery operational in order to save jobs and secure energy supplies, and does not rule out nationalization, La Republica reported, citing the president of the Sicily region, Renato Schifani. (rt.com)

The feedstock (Reduced Crude) obtained from Fuel Refinery is converted into High Speed Diesel Oil, Light Diesel Oil, Lubricating Oil Distillates and Vacuum Residue. (nrlpak.com)
A couple of 8,000-gallon tanks holding diesel fuel exploded Tuesday afternoon at the NuStar refinery in Crockett, shaking the areas of Rodeo, Hercules, and Pinole and sending thick, toxic black smoke into the air. (sfist.com)

The 'undesirables' for lubes called Extracts are sent to the refinery asphalt production unit or sold as Speciality Oil. (nrlpak.com)
The blaze knocked an important refinery unit offline, reducing the facility's production and sending thousands of nearby residents to hospitals with breathing and eye irritation complaints. (readersupportednews.org)

Tetra Tech's knowledge of refinery technologies and varied expertise has made us a major partner in most of the projects initiated at the Valero refinery. (tetratech.com)
Refineries are also major sources of toxic air pollutants, including cancer-causing benzene, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide. (sightline.org)

A recent investigation by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) found that the Valero Benicia refinery in southern Solano County has been emitting hazardous levels of toxic chemicals for years. (sfist.com)

The 170,000 people at risk around ConocoPhillips' plant near Bellingham number among some 16 million Americans in the potential path of hydrofluoric acid should an accident or terrorist strike let loose a spill at the refineries using hydrofluoric acid, which are the subject of an investigation released by the Center for Public Integrity and ABC News. (crosscut.com)
The firm operates a 15 million tonne a year refinery in Mangaluru. (deccanherald.com)
Total investment is in the order of $750 million,' Indus Refinery Limited chief operating officer Eric Fore told Gulf News . (gulfnews.com)

three supplied the refinery where the protest is taking place. (greenpeace.org)
1] The protest is taking place at Wilmar's PT Multi Nabati Sulawesi refinery in Bitung, North Sulawesi. (greenpeace.org)

For key insights into the industry, along with exclusive updates on our refinery expansion projects, subscribe to our quarterly newsletter Taking Stock. (exxonmobil.com)
But oil industry representatives have said retrofitting the refineries using hydrofluoric acid so they could use alternatives would be extremely costly - and that they're not convinced the alternatives are all that much safer. (crosscut.com)

As part of the deal, the company obtained exclusive rights to store petcoke from the nearby BP refinery. (chicagotribune.com)

The global majors (BP, ExxonMobil, Shell) have been particularly active in shedding smaller refineries, even as they continue to invest in some of their larger hub-market assets. (mckinsey.com)

Shani Kogan, an oil analyst with Sovlink securities in Moscow, said the refinery was also at the center of a ownership dispute with the government in the Bashkorotstan region, which alleges the plant was illegally privatized. (pravda.ru)
There is a dichotomy in refinery ownership, with some players reducing their refining portfolios while others see the significant value potential in both the short- and long-term. (mckinsey.com)

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