Combining a proprietary asphaltene stability index (ASI) and a laboratory simulation of the desalting process can predict desalter problems in a refinery when incompatible crude blends are suspected.

Refiners will process increasingly heavier crude slates during the next 10 years. A majority will originate from the Orinoco oil belt bitumen upgraders in Venezuela and the Athabasca tar sands region ...

A close contest is in store for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to install a new desalter unit at gathering centre (GC) 27. Sharjah-based Petrofac Internationalhas ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Lyondell Basell Industries raised production on the gasoline-producing unit at its 263,776-barrel-per-day (bpd) Houston refinery on Wednesday, Gulf Coast market sources said.