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Baniyas maritime terminal, situated on the west coast of Syria, has announced the arrival of two fuel shipments in an effort to maintain petroleum product supplies in the domestic market.
The Syrian Petroleum Company connected the two vessels – one carrying 64,324 tonnes and the other 5,620 tonnes of liquified gas – to terminal facilities, including storage tanks onsite.
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Abbas Assadrouz, head of the Iranian Oil Terminals Co, has confirmed that Iran is accelerating the completion of important safety upgrade projects at its Kharg Island oil terminal in direct response to the US’ attacks on the facilities. Notably, one project is a fire detection and firefighting system for crude oil storage tanks.
Kharg Island is about 25km from Iran’s coast, and has a close…
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Australian government officials have confirmed plans to fund a AU$4 million (€2.5 million) early-stage feasibility study into the construction of the country’s first oil refinery in 60 years.
Past refinery closures mean that around 90% of Australia’s liquid fuels are imported, with the recent international oil crisis highlighting Australia’s fuel insecurity. There are currently two…
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Aurex Constructors have successfully completed the demolition and replacement of two carbon steel storage tanks at an oil storage facility in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
The project included building two new API 650-compliant base oil storage tanks, Tank 5 (2,331m3) and Tank 7 (1,479m3), in a live environment. Detailed pre-commissioning and handover meant the move from construction…
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has allocated up to $65.5 million (€57.5 million) in federal funding to support the cost-shared research, development and deployment of domestic oil and natural gas projects.
The funding will be used to produce domestic oil and gas, improve the efficiency and reliability of critical energy infrastructure and convert underutilised resources, supporting…
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The Eastern Mediterranean Petrochemical Cluster (DAPEK) has exceeded $3 billion (€2.6 billion) in investment, with the majority coming from the $2 billion (€1.7 billion) polypropylene production facility and liquid bulk terminal. DAPEK is developed by Rönesans Holding in Ceyhan, Adana, Türkiye.
DAPEK offers development plots and a multimodal logistics infrastructure that connects road,…
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French company HOSE-PULL have developed an all-terrain, omni-directional rolling device that allows hoses freedom of movement, reducing friction, heavy manual pulling and potential repetitive strain injuries for operators.
The system uses Mecanum-style omni-directional wheels, usually associated with industrial robotics, which allow it to move freely across almost all terrains. Originally…
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Hiap Seng Engineering Limited FZC has begun works on the Mount Row Terminal Expansion Project after securing the $192 million (€168.6 million) engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract from Mount Row Terminals FZE in March 2026.
The Mount Row Terminal Expansion Project, located in the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, has an overall…
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Centrica urges government action as falling customer contacts mean its Rough gas storage facility, situated in the North Sea, will have to close by April 2027. For now, the company has cut 1,300 jobs; 500 in June 2026 with 800 more to go in the future.
Rough has been producing remnant gas while Centrica lobbies the government for a £2 billion project that would turn the facility into an…
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The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has purchased Finnart Oil Terminal in a multi-million-pound investment, strengthening the Royal Navy’s operational resilience and control over critical energy infrastructure in a time of heightened global tensions.
Finnart Oil Terminal, situated on Scotland’s west coast, will be owned by the MoD and operated by the Oil and Pipelines Agency,…
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KN Energies, Klaipėda LNG terminal’s operator, has offered additional invitation to submit requests after reviewing the results of its 2027 Klaipėda LNG terminal capacity allocation procedure.
As part of the invitation, market participants can submit requests for allocation including regasification, LNG reloading, or a combination of the two. After receiving the requests, the operator will…
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The US National Grid is investing $10.4 million (€9.1 million) in its LNG tank storage site in Haverhill, Massachusetts, US.
The current site stores up to 5 million gallons of LNG, with the site upgrading including a 5,900sqft building, security fencing, new gates and stormwater management.
National Grid spokesman Robert Kievra commented, ‘The new control building will provide operators…
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The Port of Split, the only entry point for bitumen supply in Dalmatia, is investing €8 million in bitumen onshore storage tanks, making it the first port in the country to do so.
With the construction of modern onshore tanks, part of a project that includes extensive documentation and the eventual implementation of infrastructure over the next two years, the existing model of temporary…
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The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is looking for an operator for its Fraser Wharves terminal site in Richmond, Vancouver, Canada, as part of an expansion project. The project offers potential operators a brownfield site with existing marine, rail and road connections.
The Port of Vancouver is Canada’s largest and North America’s most diversified port. In 2025, it moved 131 million metric…
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Kent continues to support the OXEA Corporation through a long-term engineering services agreement for OXEA’s major specialty chemicals project facility based in Bay City, Texas, US. It was awarded detailed engineering services after successful completion of the front-end engineering design (FEED) stage in early 2026.
These agreements are part of a three-year master services agreement signed…
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Seven oil and gas companies have applied to secure offshore exploration rights in New Zealand after Labour confirms that a party win in the November election would mean the reimposition of its offshore exploration ban. However, it would honour existing permits.
Last year, the conservative government overturned an offshore drilling ban imposed by Jacinda Ardern’s Labour government in 2018…
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Tepsa has been awarded a c.5-hectare concession, with environmental permits secured and front-end engineering design currently in progress, by the Port Authority of Huelva, Spain, to develop its fifth port terminal in the country.
The terminal will be in Spain’s second-largest petrochemical hub, which sits in a region with competitive renewable energy resources. It will support multiple…
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Panamá’s government has acquired Petroterminal de Panamá after buying the remaining 41% private stake in the company, ensuring national control for the country’s most important strategic infrastructure. Petroterminal was developed and managed by NIC Holding in association with the Republic of Panamá.
Petroterminal stores, transships and transports hydrocarbons through a 131km pipe that…
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Batumi Oil Terminal (BOT), KazTransOil JSC’s asset in Georgia, has resumed jet fuel transshipment after an eight-year hiatus. It creates a key logistics hub for the transportation of JET A-1 aviation fuel from European refineries to Kazakhstan through the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route.
The first shipment to BOT since resuming operations comprised of 10,000 tonnes of JET A-1 and…
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The Port of Antwerp-Bruges has released an update regarding the chemical spill at its Deurganckdok on 15 July.
Monitoring continued throughout the night of 15 July, and containers that were near the leaking one were unloaded and cleaned. By the afternoon of 16 July, operations at MPET on the east side of Deurganckdok had resumed, while clean up efforts continued on the west side.
As of the…
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