The longer spilled oil lingers in freshwater, the more persistent compounds it produces

Weathering assessments of polar and non-polar petroleum components using Orbitrap and Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry.

01-May-2024 - Oil is an important resource for many industries, but it can lead to serious environmental damage when accidentally spilled. While large oil spills are highly publicized, every year there are many smaller-scale spills into lakes, rivers and oceans. And, according to research published in ...

Re­search­ers cul­tiv­ate ar­chaea that break down crude oil in novel ways

How mi­croor­gan­isms deep in the seabed render crude oil harm­less

05-Jun-2023 - The sea­floor is home to around one-third of all the mi­croor­gan­isms on the Earth and is in­hab­ited even at a depth of sev­eral kilo­met­ers. Only when it be­comes too hot does the abund­ance of mi­croor­gan­isms ap­pear to de­cline. But how, and from what, do mi­croor­gan­isms in the deep ...

Aramco affiliate S-OIL to build one of the world's largest petrochemical crackers in South Korea

The $7 billion project aims to convert crude oil into petrochemical feedstock: Technology increases chemical yield and reduces operating costs

18-Nov-2022 - Aramco is making its biggest ever investment in South Korea to develop one of the world's largest refinery-integrated petrochemical steam crackers through its S-OIL affiliate, in line with the company's strategy to maximize the crude to chemicals value chain. The $7 billion Shaheen project aims ...

Greening hydrocarbon separation and crude oil refining

Polymer-based membranes that selectively separate hydrocarbon and crude oil mixtures could eclipse current industrial thermal processes

01-Sep-2022 - Polymer-based membranes developed at KAUST could enable greener and cheaper industrial separation approaches. Their stability and selectivity can be tuned by thermal crosslinking to separate simple hydrocarbon mixtures and complex crude oil fractions. Separation processes, such as distillation ...

Processing renewable raw materials instead of crude oil in refineries

BioMates runs validation-scale production

06-Apr-2022 - In the EU-funded project BioMates, the overall production process is now established and running on a validation scale. After producing 1000 kilograms of bio-oil in a test facility for the first time last year, this was another important step for achieving the project’s goal to establish a ...

IPO of Wintershall Dea will be targeted post 2021

“Strategically, BASF remains fully committed to divest its share in Wintershall Dea”

18-Jun-2021 - With the merger of Wintershall Holding GmbH and DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG in May 2019, two companies with a long tradition have formed the independent natural gas and oil company Wintershall Dea. Based on the current market conditions, the shareholders of Wintershall Dea –BASF and LetterOne – have ...

Hydrochloric acid boosts catalyst activity

Hydrochloric acid treatment improves catalysts for removing sulfur from crude oil

27-Aug-2020 - A research team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) led by chemist Johannes Lercher has developed a synthesis process which drastically increases the activity of catalysts for the desulfurization of crude oil. The new process could perhaps also be used for catalysts in fuel cells. Crude ...

All-in-one: New microbe degrades oil to gas

22-Aug-2019 - Microscopy suggests that the recently discovered microbe Methanoliparia produces methane from crude oil all by themselves. The tiny organisms cling to oil droplets and perform a great feat: As a single organism, they may produce methane from oil by a process called alkane disproportionation. ...

BASF and LetterOne sign agreement to merge Wintershall and DEA

Closing of transaction expected in the first half of 2019

01-Oct-2018 - BASF and LetterOne signed a definitive transaction agreement to merge their respective oil and gas businesses in a joint venture, which will operate under the name Wintershall DEA. “With Wintershall DEA we create the leading independent European exploration and production company with ...

INEOS completes the acquisition of the entire Oil & Gas Business from DONG Energy A/S

05-Oct-2017 - INEOS has completed the purchase of the DONG Oil & Gas Business from DONG Energy A/S. The completion of the deal positions INEOS as a top ten company in the North Sea and the biggest privately owned exploration and production business operating in the energy basin. The business brings with it a ...