With 131 refineries currently in operation, the United States has long been the global leader in oil processing capacity, but has lost ground because of a combination of an aging infrastructure and ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to University of Texas engineering professor Hugh Daigle about why the U.S. imports most of the oil it consumes despite being one of the world's largest oil exporters.

The highly complex refineries located on the U.S. Gulf Coast could resume processing heavy Venezuelan crude oil in the years following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, possibly pushing out ...

Purpose: Optimize, troubleshoot, and design refinery process units to maximize throughput, yield, energy efficiency, reliability, and regulatory compliance while safeguarding people, assets, and the ...

Rendering for America First Refining Facility in Brownsville. Among the many benefits of the $300-billion America First Refinery under construction at the Port of Brownsville will be that it is ...

After decades of stagnation in the U.S. refining sector, a significant shift may be underway. The newly announced oil refinery at the Port of Brownsville, Texas, could become one of the first major ...

A landmark $300 billion energy deal sees India's Reliance Industries partnering with Donald Trump to build America's first new oil refinery in 50 years. This ambitious project, planned for Texas, ...

For the first time in nearly 50 years, a new oil refinery will be built in the United States, in Brownsville, Texas. President Donald Trump announced the plans for the new large-scale refinery at the ...

I.1 Process monitoring and optimization: Lead daily technical stewardship of assigned units (e.g., crude/vacuum, hydrotreating, reforming, FCC, hydrocracking, sulfur ...