REFINERY INDUSTRY UPDATE HEADLINES

September 2014

McIlvaine Company

(Listed by most current date)

•                 GE‘s Compression Technology Supporting Total”s $1.3 Bln Overhaul to Expand and Enhance Its Antwerp Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/30/2014)

•                 BPCL Awards Contract to Technip for Kochi Refinery Expansion  (Article Dated: 9/29/2014)

•                 Pemex Awards $80 Mln Contract to Samsung for Ultralow-sulfur Diesel Project at Salamanca Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/29/2014)

•                 Valero, Tesoro could be Possible Bidders for Citgo Refinery Assets  (Article Dated: 9/29/2014)

•                 U.S. Refineries Reach Record Production Revenue Volumes in Mid-Summer 2014  (Article Dated: 9/29/2014)

•                 Quantum Energy and Bilfinger Westcon to Develop Multiple Refineries in the ND-MT Bakken Formation  (Article Dated: 9/29/2014)

•                 Report Says Louisiana is Sinking, Oil Refineries are Threatened  (Article Dated: 9/29/2014)

•                 Gulf Coast to Benefit from Refinery Retrofits  (Article Dated: 9/29/2014)

•                 Pemex Contracts Spain’s Técnicas Reunidas to Begin Diesel Program at Mexican Refineries  (Article Dated: 9/26/2014)

•                 Phillips 66 to Add Railcars to Move More Crude to Coast Refineries  (Article Dated: 9/26/2014)

•                 Pipe Repair to Shut Israel’s ORL Hydrocracker for September  (Article Dated: 9/26/2014)

•                 Neste to Install Biopropane Unit at Rotterdam Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/26/2014)

•                 Rosneft Commissions Isom Unit at Kuibyshev Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/26/2014)

•                 Catalytic Processes Could Yield Alternatives to Refineries, Ethane Crackers  (Article Dated: 9/25/2014)

•                 Spain's Tecnicas Reunidas Wins $500 Mln Order from Pemex  (Article Dated: 9/25/2014)

•                 Technip Awarded FEED Contract for New Refinery Units in Bahrain  (Article Dated: 9/25/2014)

•                 Turnaround Underway at Irving's New Brunswick Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/25/2014)

•                 Alon USA Receives Approval to Construct Bakersfield Rail and Refinery Project  (Article Dated: 9/25/2014)

•                 Egypt Expects $425 Mln from Islamic Development Bank, for Refinery, Airport  (Article Dated: 9/25/2014)

•                 Serbia’s NIS Plans Upgrades at Pancevo Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/24/2014)

•                 Planned Maintenance Under Way at ExxonMobil’s Baytown Complex  (Article Dated: 9/24/2014)

•                 ExxonMobil Plans Upgrade at Norwegian Slagen Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/23/2014)

•                 U.S. Merchant Bank to Buy Newfoundland Refinery from Korea National Oil  (Article Dated: 9/23/2014)

•                 Suncor Begins Planned Maintenance at Two Canadian Refineries  (Article Dated: 9/22/2014)

•                 Atyrau Refinery Modernization Project, Atyrau oblast, Kazakhstan  (Article Dated: 9/22/2014)

•                 Rising Distillation Capacity to Hasten Refinery Closures According to ESAI Energy  (Article Dated: 9/22/2014)

•                 CHS Plans Revamp of its Laurel Montana Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/22/2014)

•                 Rosneft Advances Planned Diesel Hydrotreating Complex at Syzran Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/22/2014)

•                 Xylem’s Godwin Pumps Restore Critical Operations at Flooded Argentina Ensenada Oil Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/19/2014)

•                 Petroecuador Begins Fourteen Month Phased Revamp at Esmeraldas Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/19/2014)

•                 Contract Awarded to KSB AG for Vietnam’s Nghi Son Refining Complex for Process Pumps  (Article Dated: 9/19/2014)

•                 SOCAR Builds Gas-cleaning Plant at Baku Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/19/2014)

•                 SOCAR Lets Contract to Hamon Thermal Europe for Baku Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/19/2014)

•                 Construction Begins on PDVSA’s Puerto La Cruz Refinery Revamp  (Article Dated: 9/19/2014)

•                 KBR Wins PMC Contract for Major Revamp Program at Omsk Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/18/2014)

•                 CB&I Awarded Contracts for Hydrocracker Complex in Russia  (Article Dated: 9/18/2014)

•                 Enterprise Products Begins Exporting Refined Products from Beaumont Marine Terminal  (Article Dated: 9/18/2014)

•                 Jacobs Receives Project Services Contract from BP  (Article Dated: 9/18/2014)

•                 Wison Commences Puerto La Cruz Refinery Deep Conversion Site Preparation Project in Venezuela  (Article Dated: 9/18/2014)

•                 ExxonMobil Announces Antwerp Refinery Investment of More than $1 Bln  (Article Dated: 9/18/2014)

•                 Commercial Production Begins at Chevron’s New Premium Base Oil Plant  (Article Dated: 9/18/2014)

•                 Monroe Energy, Bridger Agreement to Supply 65,000 Barrels of Crude Daily to Trainer Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/18/2014)

•                 Bakken Energy Subsidiary Nations Oil and Gas Signs LOI to Acquire Utah’s Green River Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/17/2014)

•                 Pemex Lets JV Contracts for Two Refineries  (Article Dated: 9/17/2014)

•                 Nigeria Deploys GE’s Mobile Gas Turbines at Its NNPC Port Harcourt Oil Refinery  (Article Dated: 9/10/2014)

•                 Technip Wins Program Management Consultancy Contract for the RAPID Project  (Article Dated: 9/2/2014)

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