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Shell continues to sell off its refineries across the US, however it plans on holding on to the Norco refinery. Read more here.

It’s official. The Shell Puget Sound Plant (PSP) refinery has been sold to HollyFrontier. There will be new coveralls at the refinery and a new sign over the main gate. AIS welcomes our new neighbor to the Pacific Northwest’s group of refineries. Read more about it here.

  The oil and gas industry has been slow to adopt digitalization, but as the world is becoming even more connected, leveraging their digital assets is critical to better production and safety through making the right decisions at the right time with the right data. Click here to read more.

An east-coast PBF Energy is closing down many of its units and laying of hundreds of workers in the wake of lower fuel demand because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more about it here.

A barge in “refinery row” near the Port of Corpus Christi hit a submerged pipeline resulting in an explosion, fire, and several injuries. Read more about it here.

Due to gross mismanagement by the government of their primary natural resource over the past decade, Venezuelan oil production has fallen to record lows as their infrastructure crumbles. Read more about it here.

Marathon Petroleum just announced that they will be permanently idling their Martinez, California refinery and another in New Mexico as a result of oil demand due to the Corona Virus Pandemic. AIS supplies their refinery with E*Doc controlled document management. Read more about the announcement here.

The amount of refined products that refineries are producing today is down due to the stay-at-home policies caused by the covid-19 pandemic. These are world-wide and affect all refineries. For a list of how far these refineries have cut their production go here.