petroleum refineries

UW-Superior honors emergency crews after Superior oil refinery explosion. Posted: Sun 9:57 AM, Apr 29, 2018. SUPERIOR, Wis (WSAW) UW-Superior honored the emergency crews that assisted with student evacuations after the Superior oil refinery explosion on Thursday, April 26, 2018. The university and Yellow Jacket ...

Sudan says Khartoum Oil Refinery to resume operation ... KHARTOUM, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's Ministry of Oil and Gas on Saturday announced completion of maintenance works at Khartoum Oil Refinery. "Gradual operation ... Sudan is currently producing 115,000 barrels of petroleum products a day.

The Husky Energy refinery in the city of Superior was in the process of stopping operations for repairs on Thursday when a tank exploded, leading to a fire and huge plumes of smoke. After the initial blaze was put out, another punctured tank went up in flames. More than a dozen people were injured.

Fire rages after explosion at Canadian-owned oil refinery in Wisconsin. A tank containing crude oil or asphalt exploded at a Wisconsin refinery owned by Calgary-based Husky Energy Inc. on Thursday, injuring several people and causing a blast that one worker described as sounding like a sonic boom.

Several injured after explosion at Wisconsin oil refinery. Thu, Apr 26. As a fire spread through Wisconsin's only oil refinery, dozens of workers were injured. Residents have been asked to evacuate. Share Video; Facebook · Twitter · E-mail; Embed. Copy this code to your website or blog.

No oil or asphalt escaped berms built to contain spills at the refinery's storage tanks, Douglas County Emergency Management Director Keith Kesler said Friday. Special absorbent booms were placed on nearby Newton Creek Thursday in case any petroleum products overflowed the berms, Kesler said.

An explosion at the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior, Wisconsin Thursday injured at least 11 people and forced many of the city's residents to evacuate. Douglas County has declared ... He told the station that shutdowns can be some of the most dangerous times for oil refineries. A 2010 study found that ...

Officials at Enbridge Energy, which owns a massive oil pipeline terminal and storage facility with millions of gallons of petroleum products stored near the refinery, said their facility was not impacted. “The Husky Terminal is across the street from Enbridge's Superior Terminal. This incident has not impacted ...

A tank containing crude oil or asphalt exploded at a large refinery in Wisconsin on Thursday, injuring several people and prompting fire officials to urge people living near the burning plant to evacuate their homes. No fatalities have been reported, but at least 11 people were being treated at hospitals in ...

Operational flexibility is improved if the refinery has many tanks with a large volume to maximize surge capacity. Given that refineries and terminals have a specific number and configuration of tanks, the problem to be solved is how to use those tanks most effectively. Operational flexibility provides oil ...

Merdian's Davis Refinery attracted protests as it was working for permits to build its plant in Billings County, but it attracted something else when its representatives visited ... Their idea for that was a plant that would process North Dakota's oil into gasoline, kerosene, low sulfur diesel and low sulfur fuel oil.

In December 2016, the government's three oil marketing companies — Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL), and Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) — signed an agreement to set up a mega refinery, of 60 million tonnes capacity. Dharmendra Pradhan, the petroleum ...

--Nigeria's four state-owned oil refineries -- two in Port Harcourt and one each in Kaduna and Warri -- are to be shut for a major overhaul to restore production to ... --Jordan Petroleum Refinery Co. has awarded a contract to US engineer KBR for the design of a new residue hydro-processing unit as part of its ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a series of changes to pollution rules for oil refineries that it says would save the industry ... while meeting our shared goal to protect public health,” Howard Feldman, senior director of regulatory affairs at the American Petroleum Institute, said in a ...

BAGHDAD, March 14 (Reuters) - Iraq's state-run North Oil Company (NOC) has begun testing operations at its Avana and Bai Hassan oilfields in Kirkuk to increase crude supply for domestic refineries, Iraqi officials said on Wednesday. "We have started testing operations at Avana and Bai Hassan oilfields ...

The state government on Wednesday reassured that the biggest green oil refinery, West Coast Refinery in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, will be environment-friendly which would lead to development of the region, provide employment to more than 1 lakh youths and an investment of Rs 1 lakh crore.

CNOOC was awarded its first batch of 2018 oil product export quotas, totaling 1.85 million mt -- comprising 760,000 mt of gasoline, 450,000 mt of jet ... These quotas are expected to be used only by CNOOC's Huizhou refinery, though the company has some other small refineries in the country. The Huizhou ...

Iraq is looking to attract billions of U.S. dollars in its refinery sector, and recently offered a total of 18 investment opportunities in the chemicals, petrochemicals, fertilizers, and refinery sectors. Iraq wants to attract investment mostly in the downstream, planning the construction of new refineries with different ...

KARACHI: Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited, while re-commissioning its oil refinery, has announced that it will set up two more refineries to capitalise on domestic demand for petroleum products. Byco re-commissioned a catalytic reformer at its oil refinery, ORC-2, enabling the company to convert 24,000 ...

ISLAMABAD: Laboratory tests conducted by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) and the Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP) show that oil refineries and importers are using high dosages of chemicals in low-quality petrol to improve quality, posing a serious threat to car engines, ...

Oil major Royal Dutch Shell halted gasoline production at its Convent, Louisiana, refinery between Thursday and Friday, Reuters reported on Friday, citing ... Under that deal, Aramco got the biggest refinery in the U.S., Port Arthur in Texas, while Shell received the Norco and Convent refineries in Louisiana.

The idea didn't sound quite so out-of-the-blue in 1973, when the first OPEC oil embargo and resulting gas crisis made petroleum-related development desirable. The other five New England states, in fact, had talked about cooperating to build a refinery. And while Small Town, Big Oil isn't shy in celebrating ...

The EPA said the proposed changes had been sought by the industry as technical corrections and clarifications to the Obama administration's 2015 rule setting new standards to prevent air pollution at refineries. The corrections involve the Petroleum Refinery Sector Risk and Technology Review and the ...

In addition to its proximity to three oil refineries and hundreds of active oil wells, it's penned in by three freeways and the Port of Los Angeles — the nation's largest. .... “It's home,” said Uduak-Joe Ntuk, Los Angeles' petroleum administrator, a go-between on oil issues for business, government and citizens.