Subject: New Refinery Projects for September ‘06
New refinery projects are reported monthly to Pumps World Markets http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/water.html#N019 subscribers. Here are the project titles for the month of September’06.
Refinery Updates September 2006
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
1. AMERICAS
U.S.
Lyondell to Buy Venezuela Share of Citgo Refinery for $2.23 billion
DuPont Starts Building Texas Facility
Citgo Indicted in Environmental Case, Denies all Charges
Environmental Groups Want Changes at Chalmette Refinery
Flint Hills Plant Sees no Impact from Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay Outage
Murphy Oil’s Meraux, LA Refinery is Back Online
Yorktown Refinery Changing Hands again as Western Refining Acquires Giant Industries
EPA Issues Final Decision on Chevron Cleanup
COLOMBIA
Glencore International Wins Bid with $656.4 million to Expand Columbia Oil Refinery
NEWFOUNDLAND
Harvest Energy Bets on $1.6-billion Deal to Buy Newfoundland Oil Refinery
VENEZUELA
Venezuela’s PDVSA Restarts El Palito Refinery Unit
2. ASIA
CHINA
PetroChina's NE Refinery Plans Facility for Gasoline
PetroChina to Build $1.6-billion Refinery in Guangxi
CNOOC to use Axens’ Technologies for New Refinery at Huizhou
INDIA
RPL to Raise $1.5 billion Loan to Finance Refinery Project
Reliance Aims to Complete Oil Refinery Expansion ahead of Schedule
GE Oil & Gas to Supply Compression Technology to Reliance Petroleum Project
INDONESIA
Petroleos May Invest, Supply Oil for Planned $5 billion Indonesia Refinery
VIETNAM
Honeywell to Supply Process Controls for Vietnam’s Dung Quat Refinery under $17.5 million Contract
3. EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
BULGARIA
Bulgarian Refinery Allots $750 Mln in Modernization
FRANCE
DHC Startup Operations Begin at the Normandy Refinery
ITALY
CNOOC to use Axens’ Technologies for New Refinery at Huizhou
LITHUANIA
KazMunaiGaz Works on a Refinery Project in Turkey
Foster Wheeler Gets Contract to Revamp Lithuania’s Mazeikiu refinery
NETHERLANDS
BP's Nerefco Refinery to Go Into Turnaround
Shell’s Pernis Refinery Gives Greenhouses a Boost with CO2 Pipeline
NORWAY
Statoil may Abandon $630mn Refinery Plan
TURKEY
CEO says Russia's LUKoil could Build up to $3 billion Refinery in Turkey
KazMunaiGaz Works on a Refinery Project in Turkey
Lukoil Seeks Alternate Turkish Refinery Site in Samsun
NIGERIA
'Niger Delta Impasse Threatens Foreign Investment'
RUSSIA
Lukoil to Increase Processing Capacities of Volgograd and Nizhegorodsky Oil Refineries by 5-7 mln Tons
Lukoil to Increase Processing Capacities of Volgograd and Nizhegorodsky Oil Refineries by 5-7 mln Tons
TARTARSTAN
Tatarstan to Start Attracting Investments into Kremenchuk Oil Refinery in 2006
IRAN
Iran’s Isfahan Refinery Bid Postponed to August 30
IRAQ
CICSCO, Inc. Expected to Build a New $750 million Oil Refinery in Iraq
Iraq Government Struggles To Revive Oil Infrastructure
KUWAIT
Kuwait's New Refinery to Produce LSFO
SAUDI ARABIA
Arab Refinery Output Rises by 600,000 bpd
Yanbu' New Export Refinery Designed to Process 400,000 bpd
Technip Receives Saudi Refinery Contract
UAE
Foster Wheeler Awarded UAE Refinery Feasibility Studies by TAKREER
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