Venezuelan crude is attractive to complex U.S. refiners with coking capacity, but only a subset of Gulf and East Coast plants ...

Most of the state's 15 crude oil refineries were built specifically to process the heavy sour crude that comes from Venezuela ...

While any investment by US companies in rejuvenating Venezuelan oil production could take time, Gulf Coast refiners are well ...

The highly complex refineries located on the U.S. Gulf Coast could resume processing heavy Venezuelan crude oil in the years ...

Purpose: Convert heterogeneous crude oil into on-spec products (LPG, gasoline, jet, diesel, petrochemical feedstocks, base oils, asphalt) via staged separation, conversion, treating, and blending. I.1 ...

Exxon, Chevron, Phillips 66 and others already operate refineries capable of processing the kind of heavy crude that comes ...

Crude oil fractionation is the primary separation step in a refinery, physically splitting crude into boiling-range cuts for downstream upgrading. It sits at the front of the refining value chain and ...

A full-scale resumption of Venezuelan oil exports would benefit refiners in the United States and lower their fuel production ...

Much of the American refining infrastructure was specifically engineered to process heavy crudes from Latin America and ...

Venezuelan crude oil worth $2.8 billion could reach Texas refineries next week following Trump's announcement of 50 million ...

Another African country has rushed to Nigeria, the continent’s biggest oil producer, for crude to power its refinery Despite being an oil-producing country, it relies heavily on Nigerian crude to meet ...