Subject: New Refinery Projects for July ’08
New refinery projects are reported monthly to Pumps World Market http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/pumps%20broch/pumpwcharts/pumpbrochure.htm.
Here are the project titles for the month of July ’08.
Refinery Updates July 2008
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
1. AMERICAS
U.S.
Marathon Detroit Expansion Enters Construction Phase
Shell’s Washington Refinery Cited for Safety Violations
$700 Mln Big West Refinery Expansion Report Issued
BP California Refinery Warns of Flaring
CB&I Wins $90 Mln California Refinery Deal
Delek to Pay $1 Bln for U.S. Refinery
BP Buys Whiting Plant for $210 Mln
TriMas' Lamons Gasket Co Awarded Contract for Motiva Port Arthur Refinery Expansion Project
Big West Open to Alternative Refining Process
Citgo Faces Penalties after Calcasieu Spill
EnCana Confident of OK for U.S. Refinery Expansion
CANADA
Plans for Newfoundland $4.6 Bln Placentia Bay Refinery Back on Track
CUBA
Cuba to Raise Santiago Refinery Capacity by 50,000 bpd
Cuba Seeks India’s Help to Set up 150,000 bpd Refinery
CURACAO
JAMAICA
Jamaica Refinery Upgrade Cost Hits $720 Mln
VENEZUELA
Lukoil Doesn’t Plan to Quit Venezuela despite Contract Delays
2. ASIA
CHINA
Sinopec Starts 23 mtpy Expansion of Zhenhai Refinery
PetroChina to Build 10 mtpy Refinery in Huludao
Sinopec Completes Part of $582.9 Mln Wuhan Refinery Expansion
Shell Signs On with PetroChina for Possible Refinery
INDIA
ONGC to Sell Kakinada Refinery Stake to GMR Group
Indian Oil Gears up for Paradip Refinery Work
S. KOREA
Shaw to Lead Hyundai Oilbank Refinery Expansion
3. EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
ALBANIA
US, Swiss Investors Buy Albanian Oil Refiner for $198 Mln
BULGARIA
LUKoil Bulgaria Considers Multi-million Refinery Upgrades and Plans Network Expansion
LUKOIL Bulgaria Refinery Invests $249 Mln to Upgrade
EUROPE
Lukoil Interested in Other European Refineries
GERMANY
Petroplus Announces Flaring At Ingolstadt
ITALY
Lukoil, Italian ERG Form Refinery Joint Venture
LITHUANIA
Lithuanian Refinery Resumes Operations
THE NETHERLANDS
BP Nerefco Refinery in Partial Unplanned Outage
BP to Shut Crude Unit at Rotterdam Refinery for Work
KENYA
Essar Loses Kenya Refinery Acquisition to Libya
SOUTH AFRICA
Shell Sells Stake in South Africa's Biggest Refinery to Thebe Investment Corp
PetroSA Seeks Strategic Engineering Partner for 400,000 bpd Coega Refinery
RUSSIA
Korean, Italian Firms Win $900 Mln Refinery Order in Russia
QATAR
Qatar's Ras Laffan Refinery Ready in 2009
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Aramco, Total Sign Core Agreements to Build Full-conversion Jubail Refinery
YEMEN
Al-Qaeda Claims Rocket Attack on Yemen Oil Plant
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