For decades, the Valero refinery shaped Benicia’s economy, politics and health. Now the city has become a reluctant test case of whether an oil town can reinvent itself ...

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Light US crude requires a different configuration at refineries Changing refinery setup can be a lengthy and expensive process Running different crude types impacts refinery yields, margin April 9 - U ...

Purpose: Optimize, troubleshoot, and design refinery process units to maximize throughput, yield, energy efficiency, reliability, and regulatory compliance while safeguarding people, assets, and the ...

CVR Energy operates in petroleum refining, nitrogen fertilizer, and renewable diesel, with refining being the main revenue driver and fertilizer boosting margins through pet coke usage. The Group 3 ...

I.1 Process monitoring and optimization: Lead daily technical stewardship of assigned units (e.g., crude/vacuum, hydrotreating, reforming, FCC, hydrocracking, sulfur ...

Russia’s biggest crude processing facility by production, the Omsk refinery, increased its crude processing by 4% between January and September compared to the same period last year, according to the ...

Canada's proposed emissions cap could limit oil production and increase costs for Canadian producers. This could significantly impact U.S. refineries, many of which are specifically equipped to ...

Chevron’s push into Venezuelan heavy crude highlights a refining mismatch in U.S. energy markets, where complex refineries ...

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