U.S. refineries can process shale oil, but economics—not capability—drive imports and exports. Here’s why the system works ...

Chevron is now importing 250,000 barrels of crude per day from Venezuela.

Axens announced that it has been selected by America First Refining (AFR) as the technology licensor for its large-scale refining facility at the Port of Brownsville, Texas. The project marks the ...

Oil is, as we all know, drilled from the ground, but it turns out the oil in your car is a little bit more complicated than ...

The highly complex refineries located on the U.S. Gulf Coast could resume processing heavy Venezuelan crude oil in the years following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, possibly pushing out ...

Rendering for America First Refining Facility in Brownsville. Among the many benefits of the $300-billion America First Refinery under construction at the Port of Brownsville will be that it is ...

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

Oil is never just oil. In its crude form, it is merely potential — latent energy waiting to be transformed. Only through the ...

Trump announced a Texas refinery with investment from Reliance, the first such US project in 50 years. Jamnagar's world-leading Nelson Complexity Index may explain why RIL was chosen ...

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