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Husky Oil experienced a bad fire on April 26, 2018.  It’s taken this long just to demo the damaged equipment, and full operation is expected to occur sometime in 2021.  Click here to read more about the refinery rebuild (from Oil & Gas Journal).

There comes a point when it’s time to get a better document management system because what you have is not meeting your needs & requirements. This article lists 7 signs that you are due for an upgrade.  If you are thinking of upgrading, consider E*Doc. Here are 7 signs you need a new document management … Read more

This is another excellent article from Coking.com on how Management of Change (MOC) can save lives at an oil refinery. Read more about it here.

Meridian Energy group is planning on building a new 60,000 BPD refinery in Winkler County, Texas. This new refinery will process local Permian crude oil into a full slate of refined products.  This is Meridian’s second new refinery, after its first in Billings County, North Dakota which is still under construction.  Read more about it … Read more

ExxonMobil has started construction on a new crude unit at its Beaumont, Texas refinery. This new unit will increase capacity by more than 65% to 250,000 BPD.  Read more about this major expansion here.

The US will position itself as a net energy exporter in 2020 and will remain so throughout a projection period to 2050 resulting from large increases in production of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas plant liquids (NGPL) coupled with slow growth in energy consumption, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s Annual Energy … Read more

China’s Sinopec Corp has joined a group planning to build an oil refinery in Alberta, an enterprise that would strengthen demand for the Canadian province’s heavily discounted crude.  Read more about it here.  

We came across this article on a website that specializes in the Refining Community Newsletter. An interesting short article on the importance of team training in the process industry. Read the article here.  

The U.S. port district of Houston-Galveston in Texas recently began exporting more crude oil than it imported for the first time on record. Crude oil exports from the Houston-Galveston port district have increased since the restrictions on U.S. crude oil exports were lifted at the end of 2015. In April 2018, crude oil exports from Houston-Galveston surpassed crude oil … Read more

  The Hovensa Refinery on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands was at one time one of the largest refineries in the world. It closed in 2012 and filed for bankruptcy three years later. The refinery has been purchased and is scheduled to start production in 2020.  The Hydrocarbon Processing article on its rise … Read more