Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday touted what he called a unique U.S. capability to refine Venezuela's abundance of ...

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

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

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

Crude prices are low. Companies are being cautious. But huge reserves — particularly of the heavy, viscous oil Venezuela has ...

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

Aging plants that process a byproduct of crude oil refining into vital metals feedstocks exist in a gap of federal pollution oversight, allowing the facilities to have an outsized impact on localized ...

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

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

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

Boosting production of Venezuela’s extra-heavy, “very dense, very sloppy” oil would significantly worsen climate pollution and local environmental damage, and environmental advocates are warning that ...