Asia, one of the world's leading consuming regions, has been the biggest contributor to the worldwide petroleum demand explosion during the past year. The increase in demand is the main reason for the ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) -After starting up operations at four new refining and chemicals initiatives this year, Exxon Mobil is surveying more opportunities to revamp other sites, an executive told Reuters ...

Although demand has rebounded from the 1998 slump, during the 3-year period the incremental CDU capacity additions dwarfed the incremental product demand of less than 1.2 million b/d (Fig. 1). Despite ...