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Technology From Honeywell's UOP To Run Largest Refinery In Africa
UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced today that its process technology, catalysts and proprietary equipment will form the basis for the largest refinery in Africa, reducing Nigeria's dependence on imported fuels and petrochemicals.

Fire at Aspropyrgos Refinery
Today, 8th of May 2015 at 8:20 am, there was incident of ignition in a unit at the Aspropyrgos refinery, during scheduled maintenance by an experienced Greek contractor company. Six injured workers were carried to hospitals in the region. The incident was met directly from the refinery’s firefighting unit and all the relevant safety measures were taken, as provided by the pertinent procedures.

Syzran Refinery Completes the Transition to Euro 5 Diesel
Syzran Refinery, a Rosneft subsidiary, has switched completely to Euro 5 diesel fuel as part of its large-scale investment program to upgrade operations.

Dakota Prairie Refinery Commences Startup Operations
MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE:MDU) and Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ:CLMT) today announced that the Dickinson, North Dakota-based Dakota Prairie refinery, the first greenfield fuels refinery built in the U.S. in nearly 40 years, has commenced operations. The facility has begun producing diesel fuel and is expected to begin sales of diesel as the plant ramps up during May.

IndianOil's Paradip Refinery starts crude processing
IndianOil has started the process of commissioning its 15 MMTPA state-of-the-art Paradip Refinery. Crude processing has been started in Atmospheric & Vacuum unit (AVU) on April 26, 2015 and products like LPG, Naphtha, Kerosene, Gas Oil, RCO etc. are coming out of the unit. Some of these products will require further processing in secondary units, which are also gearing up for commissioning. The whole complex is likely to take about 6-8 months time for becoming fully operational in an integrated manner. This was disclosed by Mr. Sanjiv Singh, Director [ Refineries ] of the largest Refiner of the country- IndianOil.

Technip wins PMC contract for the Basra Refinery Upgrading project
Technip, in partnership with UNICO, a Japanese engineering consultant, was awarded a Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract on a reimbursable basis, for the upgrading of the Basra refinery. This contract, awarded by South Refineries Company (SRC) – Ministry of Oil, covers the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, start-up and warranty management phase of the refinery upgrading project(1), located in Basra, Iraq.

CB&I Awarded Contract for Afipsky Oil Refinery Project
CB&I (NYSE: CBI) today announced it has been awarded a contract by NefteGazIndustriya, LLC, through project developer MAVEG GmbH, to provide engineering and procurement services for the Afipsky Oil Refinery in Krasnodar, Russia.

Total’s French Refining Roadmap: Upgrade Donges And Transform La Mède
Total today presented its French refining roadmap to employee representatives. The plan is designed to give each Total’s refining site in France the means to resist in a volatile environment and perform profitably. Under the plan, Total will invest to upgrade the Donges refinery in western France and transform the La Mède refinery in southern France, to ensure they thrive going forward.

TonenGeneral Group to Optimize Kawasaki Refinery Operations
TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K. (“TonenGeneral” herein) announces that in the interest of optimizing the configuration of its production facilities, it has submitted a notification of change to, the Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and METI has accepted said notice providing for the reduction of the nominal capacity of the pipestill of its Kawasaki refinery by 10,000 barrels per day from 268,000 barrels per day to 258,000 barrels per day.

Gazprom Neft increases collaboration with Vietnam
Gazprom Neft and Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) have signed a series of agreements to extend their collaboration activity. The documents were signed in Hanoi (Vietnam), in the presence of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev and the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng.