Sinopec Corp is set to turn a southern China unit into a top oil refinery and petrochemicals producer by 2007 as part of the...
Thai Olefins PCL, Thailand’s third largest olefins maker, is interested in buying a stake in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) maker Vinythai PCL, a PTT PCL source said...
Private equity and trade buyers have submitted first-round bids in the auction of Basell, the plastics maker jointly owned by...
Lithuanian refiner Mazeikiu Nafta said that a $400 million investment programme to modernise the plant to European standards...
Inchon Oil Refinery C. Ltd, South Korea’s smallest oil refiner, plans to raise its crude oil processing rates for November by 12.5 per cent from October to build up...
Nippon Oil Corp, Japan’s biggest refiner, restarted a 140,000 barrel-per-day crude distillation unit (CDU) at its Mizushima refinery in western Japan, a company source...
Taiwan fined its only two refiners, the Chinese Petroleum Corp (CPC) and Formosa Petrochemical Corp, for adjusting prices in unison 20 times over a 2-year period...
South Korean exports of spot gas oil in November are expected to fall by about a third from October, dented by top local...
The 400,000-barrels-per-day Nerefco refinery in Rotterdam will be partially shut for lengthy maintenance as the European turnaround season reaches its climax, oil...
India’s state-run Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) said it plans to share the cost of expanding Indian Oil Corp’s (IOC) Panipat refinery and wants half the additional...
Rompetrol’s 75,000 barrels per day Petromidia refinery in Navodari, Romania, will complete a $3.5 million upgrade by mid-December to produce ultra low sulphur diesel, a...
Oil consuming countries, and especially the United States, are struggling to refine heavy crude oil as lighter crudes become...
SK Corp, South Korea’s biggest oil refiner, said it would establish a holding company in China as part of efforts to boost its...
Indonesian state-oil-firm Pertamina has restarted its 118,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) crude distillation unit (CDU) at the Cilacap refinery after a scheduled maintenance...
