September 2021 | Storage Terminals Magazine

Downstream protocol

The UK government has decided to temporarily suspend competition rules for the country’s downstream oil sector in an attempt to alleviate...

OPW vendor experience

OPW Engineered Systems’ new trade show on wheels is a portable trailer that brings the vendor experience to its distributors and customers...

Philippines’ SPR

The Philippines Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled plans to establish a strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) for the country. The SPR will...

GTT appointment

Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) has announced the appointment of Véronique Bouchard Bienaymé as group communications vice president. With...

GES new director

Global Energy Storage (GES), a new energy storage company set up earlier in 2021 to focus on products for the energy transition, has...

Brooge new facility

Brooge Petroleum and Gas Investment Company has announced the opening of its new 600,000 m3 storage facility in Fujairah Oil Industry Zone...

Phillips 66 buyer

Houston-based oil producer Hilcorp is evaluating Phillips 66’s refinery in Alliance, Louisiana, for conversion into an oil export terminal...

Q4 Pengerang restart

Malaysia’s Petronas hopes to restart its Pengerang refinery-petrochemical complex, a joint venture with Saudi Aramco, by year end, said Arif...

Essar’s HMRC deal

Essar Oil (UK) Limited (EOUK) has entered into a new time to pay agreement with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). EOUK and HMRC have agreed a...

Vopak: safety

Total Safety recently supported Vopak’s Freeport site as a vendor at its inaugural annual safety day, furthering Total Safety’s commitment...

enfinium joins EEMUA

enfinium Limited has become the latest company to join EEMUA as a corporate member. enfinium is the largest pure play waste-to-energy business...

Net-zero push

Shell plans to build an 820,000 tpy biofuels facility in the Netherlands, which it claims will be one of Europe’s largest. The facility will...

Petrobras pledge

Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras is the latest national oil company to commit to becoming carbon neutral, in line with the 12-member global...

Grangemouth plans

INEOS Grangemouth has announced planned further investment of over £1 billion towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions at its site to net zero...

S&P’s new launch

S&P Global Platts has announced that commencing October 1, it will launch the first ever daily carbon offset premiums alongside monthly...

Kuwait’s expansion

Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) has successfully started full operation of an environmentally friendly project to expand refining capacity...

CHEMUK 2021

As one of the first post-lockdown ‘national trade show’ events scheduled at NEC Birmingham, CHEMUK 2021, the UK’s Chemical Industries Supply...

Iran drafts plans

Iran is drafting plans to attract as much as $145 billion domestic and foreign investments in its oil industry over the next eight years. “We...

Denbury/Mitsubishi

Energy company Denbury and Mitsubishi Corporation have executed a term sheet for the transport and storage of CO2 from Mitsubishi’s proposed...

PetroChina bid

State-run PetroChina and privately held Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery were awarded 4.43 million barrels of crudes in China's first...

Kinder Morgan deal

Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP), which is a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc, and Southwestern Energy Company, have announced the initiation...

Exolum partnership

Exolum, which transports and stores a wide range of bulk liquids in eight countries, and the UK MoD, have a longstanding contract that...

Saval’s systems

Storage tanks are normally protected using AFFF foam. Large storage tanks with internal or external floating roofs are normally equipped with...

HES commits

HES is committed to the ten principles of the UN Global Compact (UNGC) on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. “By...

Solvay inhibitor

Chemical company Solvay has launched a next-generation shortstop inhibitor solution to prevent runaway polymerisation in acrylic and...

GTI Fujairah first

Prostar Capital’s GTI Fujairah terminal in the Port of Fujairah, UAE, has been fitted with solar lighting as part of the company’s ongoing...

Oiltanking sale

Oiltanking has entered into an agreement to sell its 55 percent stake in four European liquid storage terminals to Evos through its entity...

Gazprom pipeline

Russian energy company Gazprom said construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was completed on September 10. The pipeline, which will...

Kulevi regional first

Kulevi Oil Terminal in Georgia, owned by the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), has become the first terminal in the...

LBC’s DC advice

LBC Tank Terminals (LBC) is a top tier global player in bulk liquid storage, with seven strategically located and high-quality assets which...

New Fortress deal

New Fortress Energy Inc and The Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka have jointly announced that they have executed...

Rubis’ ‘high standards’

France-based Rubis Group is an independent operator of downstream petroleum and chemical facilities. Its Rubis Terminal division operates...

Petronet terminal

Petronet LNG Ltd, India's largest gas importer, is looking to reclaim the lost opportunities of the past decade as it seeks a fresh foray...

Major Shell sale

Shell Enterprises LLC, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has reached an agreement for the sale of its Permian business to ConocoPhillips...

Team effort

Three Spanish based companies; storage company Exolum, electricity supplier Naturgy and gas supply company Enagás have formed a green...

UK net zero first

UK bulk liquid firm Navigator Terminals is to work with US company 8 Rivers Capital to assess opportunities for the transport, storage and...