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Pemex reports increases in crude processing after refinery work; Methyl methacrylate market seen doubling in size by 2030

May 23, 2023

News Briefs

U.S. jet fuel consumption recovery to 2019 levels challenged by fewer flights

Jan 22, 2023

U.S. jet fuel consumption rose in December 2022 from a year earlier but a faster recovery to the pre-pandemic, 2019 levels is challenged as carriers like Delta Air Lines have had success in efforts to become more energy efficient through grouping more people...

Petroperu´s inability to restart refinery once key for Panama Canal defense separates Peruvians from $1.5 billion: a case study on a century of crude oil business in the tropics

Nov 9, 2022

Thirty million Peruvians learned slowly about a 30,000 barrels-per-day capacity expansion project, add to that a unit to process residuals, that has so far taken at least a decade and a half and demanded anywhere from $5.5 billion to well over $8 billion, not...

Guyana makes clarification in tender for construction of 30,000-bpd refinery; Monterrey-based Alpek confirms resumption of construction of PTA-PET site in Texas; Mexico City-based Orbia, Solvay to invest $850 million in U.S. to supply PVDF to EV producers

Nov 9, 2022

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Petroecuador to expand, upgrade Esmeraldas refinery; AmSty to buy circular feedstock for recycled polysterene; Colombia´s Ecopetrol pays early $1.2-billion loan used to buy ISA; Wood Mackenzie sees plastics demand growth for 2022 slowing to 2.9%

Oct 11, 2022

News Briefs

Mexico´s Pemex to upgrade its six refineries after completing 340,000 bpd new plant construction

Jul 20, 2022

Octavio Romero, director of Mexican state oil Pemex, said the company will work in the second half of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador´s term on improving its six refineries after completing during the first half of the six-year period the...

Bolivians tap fertilizers revenue to build new plant while equally gas-rich Peruvians must pay up for urea imports, smuggled LPG: a case study of Peru´s Camisea business

Jul 20, 2022

While farmers in nearby, Camisea gas fields-rich Peru struggled in 2022 to find and buy gas-derived fertilizer and citizens paid dearly for goods obtained from gas and needed daily like LPG for cooking, Bolivians not only had access to affordable local urea...

Canada´s Inter Pipeline considers carbon capture and storage for new PDH, polypropylene plant

Mar 21, 2022

Canada´s Inter Pipeline, a midstream operator that will complete this year the construction of the country´s first PDH and polypropylene complex, is studying a project that could turn the facilities located near Edmonton, Alberta into net zero emissions...

Mexico´s Pemex faces spike in worker accidents, rising emissions, and declining chemical production

Mar 8, 2022

Mexican state oil company Pemex, which owns six refineries in Mexico as well as the recently transferred Deer Park refinery in Texas, reported in late February that its petrochemical production declined in 2021, a year when worker accidents surged and...

U.S. gasoline prices post highest levels in nearly a decade in late November

Dec 6, 2021

U.S. average pump window prices at service stations for regular unleaded gasoline on the Monday before the U.S. Thanksgiving holidays this year were on average $3.40/gallon, the highest in about a decade, according to the U.S. Energy Information...

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