Distillation unit atmospheric heaters serve a vital role in crude oil processing. Any issues directly related to reduced capacity of a heater, such as elevated tube-skin temperatures (TSTs) and coking ...

Citgo Petroleum Corp. has successfully resumed operations at the atmospheric distillation tower of its 167,000-b/d Lemont, Ill., refinery following a fire that damaged the crude unit late last month ...

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras PBR has signed three major contracts worth around $892 million with Consag Engenharia to complete Train 2 at the Abreu e Lima Refinery (RNEST) in Pernambuco, ...

Petroleo Brasileiro SA began operating the furnaces in the atmospheric distillation unit at its Abreu e Lima or "RNEST" refinery near Recife, said the state-run oil company in a statement on Thursday.

In this interview, AZoM talks to Thomas Herold, Product Manager at PAC LP, about how atmospheric distillation can be measured following the well-known test method ASTM D86 / ISO 3405 or with the Micro ...

Crude topping units will be a relatively inexpensive add-on to U.S.'s existing refining system that can materially expand processing capacity for light-sweet grades. Valero has three expansion ...

LISBON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The atmospheric distillation unit at Portugal's 225,000-barrel-per-day Sines oil refinery owned by Galp Energia has been in an unplanned outage since the beginning of last ...

Egypt's Ennpi and Petrojet signed a memorandum of understanding worth 6 billion Egyptian pounds ($381.56 million) with Assiut Oil Refining Company to develop a new atmospheric distillation unit, the ...

Historically speaking, optimizing the refinery has been mostly focused on final products (e.g., gasoline and diesel), slowly shifting focus to conversion and upgrading process units across the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Petroleo Brasileiro SA began operating the furnaces in the atmospheric distillation unit at its Abreu e Lima or "RNEST" refinery near Recife, the state-run oil ...