Tunisia >> 10/29/2010 - Libya's prime minister said his country will help its neighbour Tunisia build an oil refinery at Tunisia's Skhira oil terminal. Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi discussed joint busine... |
France >> 10/16/2010 - Petroplus Holdings AG announced that it has started a safe partial shut down of its Reichstett refinery due to strike actions taken by workers at the refinery. The remaining units are planned to be sa... |
Germany >> 10/15/2010 - Rosneft today agreed with Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (“PDVSA”) to acquire PDVSA’s 50% stake in Ruhr Oel GmbH. The agreement was signed in the Kremlin in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medve... |
Colombia >> 10/11/2010 - Ecopetrol has successfully started-up two new units for the production of Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (Prime-D) and Ultra Low Sulfur Gasoline (Prime-G+), as part of its Hydrotreating Project (HDT) at its ... |
China >> 9/21/2010 - A foundation laying ceremony for a refinery to be built by the joint venture between Rosneft and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) was held in Tianjin (China). The ceremony was attended by t... |
Venezuela >> 8/27/2010 - The vice president for Refining, Trade and Supply from PDVSA Socialista, Asdrubal Chavez, along with the governor of Barinas state, Adan Chavez, made inspections in the areas of access and temporary o... |
China >> 6/29/2010 - On June 28, the main installations of Ningxia Petrochemical's 5Mt/a refining renovation and expansion project — CNPC's key project for the Eleventh Five Year Plan — started to be constructed. ... |
Iraq >> 6/26/2010 - The estimated cost of building four new refineries in Iraq to add some 740,000 barrels per day of refining capacity is more than $20 billion, Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said. ... |
India >> 6/8/2010 - Technip has been awarded three lump sum turnkey contracts for Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL), worth a total value of approximately €25 million, for the Phase III Expansion Project of ... |
Thailand >> 6/4/2010 - Carnarvon Petroleum Limited provides the following update on the current situation in Thailand. On 20 May 2010 Carnarvon advised ASX that Pan Orient, the Operator of the L44 permit in Thailand, had re... |
Kuwait >> 6/2/2010 - Kuwaiti crude oil jumped 2.14 US dollars Monday to $70.88 per barrel (pb) compared with Thursday's price, said Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC). ... |
Nigeria >> 5/15/2010 - Nigeria and China have signed a tentative deal to build three oil refineries in the West African state at a cost of $23 billion, in a move to boost badly needed gasoline supply in Nigeria and to posit... |
Russia >> 5/6/2010 - TNK-BP announced the completion ahead of schedule of the planned turnaround on eight of its processing units at the Ryazan Refinery, which is part of the TNK-BP Group. Starting from today, the Refiner... |
Egypt >> 5/2/2010 - Egypt’s government signed an agreement with two Chinese companies to build and operate a $2 billion refinery in the North African nation, the Oil Ministry said. ... |
India >> 4/16/2010 - India's Chennai Petroleum Corp has put on hold its plans to build a new 300,000-barrels-per-day refinery at Ennore in southern India as it had not received environmental clearance from the government.... |
China >> 4/15/2010 - CNOOC, China's third-largest oil company, has configured the facilities to be built in an expansionary project of its Huizhou refinery to process medium crude with high sulphur content, a company offi... |
Papua-New Guinea >> 4/15/2010 - InterOil Corporation announced that the Company has entered into agreements with Mitsui & Co. Ltd., to jointly operate and fund the preliminary works involved to develop a proposed condensate strippin... |
Ghana >> 4/14/2010 - Ghana's 45,000 barrel-per-day Tema refinery shut down 10 days ago for an undetermined amount of time due to a lack of crude oil supplies, the managing director of the plant said. ... |
India >> 4/1/2010 - Technip has been awarded two contracts by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) for their diesel hydrotreater project in the Visakh refinery, on the east coast of India. ... |
India >> 3/29/2010 - Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has secured a major order valued at Rs. 1400 crore from Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for a 4.17 MMTPA FCC (Fluidized Catalytic Cracker) Reactor Regenerator Project of a ... |