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The Sturgeon Refinery, a new 80,000 BPD refinery northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, just completed construction and commissioning of its 10 major units last month and will begin processing Canadian bitumen (heavy oil) feedstock in the coming months. It’s also the first refinery to be built with a carbon capture and storage system.  You can read more … Read more

Image courtesy Petrotechnics AIS Software’s mission is to offer the oil, gas, and chemicals industries high-quality and intuitive process safety management solutions. UTL, the process operations monitoring and reporting tool from AIS, brings together disparate data and creates an integrated view of operational activities and risks allowing companies to realize greater levels of safety, efficiency and performance. This two-part … Read more

Exxon Mobil, along with numerous other refiners across the country plan to invest billions of dollars in the United States due in part to the recently approved corporate tax rate cuts.  The money is earmarked for future capital projects. You can read more about this here.

2017 showcased many international oil refinery projects with major impacts in world oil production. This report from Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine provides some details of these massive expansions that are currently under construction. AIS Software provides software solutions for process monitoring and document management at oil refineries and chemical plants around the world. Major oil companies know that such leaps in … Read more

  Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (CPCC), a joint venture of Chevron Corp. and Phillips 66, has completed construction of a 1.5 million-ton/year ethane cracker at its Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, Texas.  Once fully operational, the unit will produce ethylene to support CPCC’s ethylene business and as feedstock for the operator’s recently completed two 500,000-tpy … Read more

According to the American Petroleum Institute, the total US petroleum product deliveries reached their highest October monthly average since 2007.  19.9 million barrels per day of jet kerosene, gasoline and residual fuel oil. Learn more about this here. Production increases can only happen when existing refineries become more efficient. AIS Software creates software solutions for … Read more

Shell, the world’s largest fuel retailer, is looking at the future of oil refining when regulations and market forces replace petroleum-powered vehicles with electric vehicles. The keyword is “product diversity”. AIS provides UTL operations monitoring and shift reporting software to oil refineries worldwide making them more productive, more efficient and more flexible as they move … Read more

Will oil and gas consumption decrease in the future as climate change legislation and electric-powered vehicles alter the balance of petrochemical consumption? This is an interesting article on the subject. Read more here.

The flow of crude oil and refined products flowing across the American Midwest is changing. Over the past few years, Midwestern refiners have spent billions of dollars on projects to process the heavier crudes coming out of Canada and the Bakken Oil Field. Less and less crude oil from the Gulf Coast is being processed … Read more

AIS Software will be attending the fall AFPM Operations & Process Technology Summit on October 2-4 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Austin, Texas. The conference brings together refinery managers, process engineers and operators to explore the technologies and tools that can increase the production, efficiency, and safety of crude oil refining. AIS will have a booth … Read more