Unit Fire Put Out at Marathon's Galveston Bay, Texas, Refinery -- OPIS

Marathon said in a late Wednesday TCEQ regulatory filing that the fire broke out when residual hydrocarbons ignited as the company's crews were draining a vessel. The filing listed the refinery's ...
Morningstar

ExxonMobil's Baytown Refinery Reports Shutdown of Alkylation Unit — OPIS

ExxonMobil's 588,000 b/d Baytown, Texas, refinery had an unplanned shutdown of its alkylation unit due to a compressor trip that started on Monday, the company notified the Texas Commission on ...
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CVR Energy Proceeds with Alkylation Project Using KBR's K-SAAT Technology

HOUSTON, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that CVR Energy, Inc.'s Board of Directors has approved the next phase of the revamp of the alkylation unit at its subsidiary's ...
Reuters

Venezuela's PDVSA reactivates El Palito refinery alkylation unit

CARACAS, April 16 (Reuters) - Operations at the alkylation unit at Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA's El Palito refinery resumed on Sunday, according to the refinery's Twitter account. The refinery, ...
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Chief investigator of the refinery explosion gives her first impressions of a landscape of twisted steel

The head of a federal agency investigating last Friday’s explosions and fire at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions called the incident “catastrophic” and said the main unit where blasts occurred is ...
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Motiva Begins Planned Startup of FCC, Alkylation Units at Texas Refinery

Motiva Enterprises has begun a planned startup of its fluid catalytic cracking and alkylation units at its 659,700 b/d Port Arthur refinery, according to a filing with the Texas Commission on ...
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Valero restarts two units at its Los Angeles-area refinery

San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corp. on Monday, July 15, restarted a gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking unit and an alkylation unit at its 135,000-barrel-a-day ...