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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. CARSON, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 10: In an aerial view, Marathon ...

Africa’s oil refining industry has long struggled to keep pace with the continent’s vast crude oil production. For decades, many African nations exported crude oil while importing refined petroleum ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday touted what he called a unique U.S. capability to refine Venezuela's abundance of crude oil, a linchpin of the Trump administration's takeover strategy for the ...

Trump announced a $300 billion refinery project backed by Reliance Industries. The plant was planned for Brownsville, Texas, processing U.S. shale oil. Trump said it would be the first new U.S.

NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Marathon Petroleum (MPC.N), opens new tab said it bought two cargoes of Venezuelan crude oil at the end of January and expects its refineries to process more heavy grades, ...

Texas Tech professors explain why gas prices are so high despite Texas being a major producer, fracking and oil economics.

Marathon Petroleum (MPC) operates 13 refineries with 3 million barrels per day of crude distillation capacity, including the largest single refinery in the U.S. at Galveston Bay with 631,000 barrels ...

Petroleum refineries rank among the largest industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions, driven by energy-intensive operations such as crude distillation, catalytic conversion and steam cracking.