Subject:  New Refinery Projects for Jan. ‘08

 

New refinery projects are reported monthly to Industrial Valves: World Markets http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#n028.  Here are the project titles for the month of Jan. ‘08.

REFINERY

UPDATE

January 2008

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

AMERICAS

U.S.

BP Ohio Refinery Plans Restart

BP to Invest $2.5 Billion in Oregon Refinery, Enter Partnership

Hyperion Asking for Special Zoning for $10 Billion South Dakota Refinery

Tesoro may Spend $175 Million to Upgrade Hawaii Refinery

Marathon Awards Fluor $1.6 Billion Refinery Contract

Chevron Reports Fire at Pascagoula Refinery

U.S. Refining Mergers and Acquisitions Seen Active in 2008

BP Spent about $1 Billion Repairing Refinery

BP Refinery Nears End of Repairs

CANADA

Husky Set to Spend $235 Million at Lloydminster, Lima Facilities

BRAZIL

Petrobras, PDVSA to Form Mixed Company for Abreu e Lima

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Dominican Republic Seeks Tender to Value $183 Million Refinery Stake

Chavez, Lula Da Silva Ratify Joint Venture to Unite PDVSA, Petrobras

ASIA

AUSTRALIA

WorleyParsons Wins Five-year Potential $70 Mln BP Contract

CHINA

Sinopec's Qingdao Refinery to Begin Operation next  March

PetroChina Completes Huabei Refinery Expansion

CNPC Plans 10 Million Tonne East China Refinery

INDIA

Name of Bhatinda Refinery Changed to HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd

Punj Lloyd Wins Vadodara Upgrade Project from Indian Oil

Hill/SDPM to Consult on Kuwait Refinery Projects

JAVA

Pertamina, Mitsui to Build $1.5 Billion Cilicap Refinery Gasoline Unit

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

LITHUANIA

Baltic Refiner Mazeikiu Nafta Submits Plan for Products Pipeline

POLAND

Technip Wins Project Management Contract for Poland's Gdansk Refinery

LIBYA

Five Japanese Firms Eyeing Construction of Libya Refinery

NIGERIA

Work on 100,000 Bpd Nigeria Refinery to Begin 2008

SOUTH AFRICA

Calls for Relocation of South Africa’s Engen Oil Refinery

KBR to Perform Study for $6 Billion South Africa Refinery

SIBERIA

Imperial Energy Building $116 Million Siberia Refinery

UKRAINE

LUKoil Considers Further Expansion at Odessa Refinery

Ukraine Refinery to Boost Output, Build New Unit

ABU DHABI

Neste, Takreer, OMV to Build 500,000 Tpy Base Oil Plant in Abu Dhabi

BAHRAIN

Bahrain Opens $725 Million LSDP unit at Bapco Refinery

IRAN

Work Begins on New $2.6 Billion Refinery in Southern Iran

Iran to Build Seven New Refineries

KUWAIT

Hill/SDPM to Consult on Kuwait Refinery Projects

KNPC to Receive Bids for $14.6 Billion Al Zour Refinery

OMAN

Oman, Indian Firms Eyeing Ventures

SAUDI ARABIA

Petrochemical and Refining Integration Seen as a Key to Saudi Growth

 

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