News

U.S. regional refining margins fell 6.66 percent on average in the week ended Sept. 12, declining in three out of the...

Shell, Motiva to Pay Back Wages to U.S. Workers -Labor Dept.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc's U.S. subsidiary Shell Oil Co and the company's Motiva Enterprises joint-venture with Saudi Aramco have agreed...

Venezuela’s PDVSA Says Ends ‘Major’ Maintenance on Puerto La Cruz Refinery

Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA said on Wednesday it completed a "major" 42-day maintenance on a distillation unit at its...

Hess, PDVSA Receive Offer for U.S. Virgin Island’s Hovensa Refinery-Sources

Hess Corp and Venezuela's state-run PDVSA have found an interested buyer for their 350,000 barrel per day (bpd) Hovensa refinery...

PBF Set to Begin Full-scale Toledo Refinery Turnaround Oct. 10-Source

PBF Energy plans to begin an over month-long, refinery-wide maintenance shutdown of its 160,000 barrel-a-day facility in Toledo, Ohio, on...

Africa

Libya’s Zawiya Refinery, El Sharara Oil Field Shut â€“ Official

Libya's 120,000 barrels a day Zawiya refinery has been shut down after storage was damaged in fighting between armed groups,...

Foster Wheeler Joins Gulf Coast Gas-to-gasoline Project

Foster Wheeler AG (NASDAQ:FWLT) announced Thursday that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has entered into a...

Idled N.M. Fractionation Plant to Support Western’s Gallup Refinery

Western Refining, Inc. (NYSE:WNR) announced Wednesday that it has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of the 25,000 barrel...

Chevron Taps Deutsche Bank to Find Buyers for Hawaiian Refinery â€“ Source

Chevron Corp has hired an investment bank to identify potential buyers of its 54,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Kapolei on the...

Downstream

Bahrain Refinery Contract Goes to Technip