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DGMK annual meeting of the analysts 2023

With a variety of energy carriers, production and application options from modern biofuels and synthetic fuels to CO2-neutral hydrogen, analytics faces complex challenges.

Report on the Petrochemical Congress in Dresden in mid-October

C1 Building Blocks for Future Industry – this was the title of the 31st conference of the Petrochemical Division of the DGMK from 11 to 13 October. This year’s venue was the Dresden Haus der Kirche within the walls of the baroque Dreikönigskirche, built between 1732 and 1739, whose premises provided a thoroughly appropriate setting for the event.

De facto ban on combustion engines: fuel industry hopes for correction by EU Council of Ministers

The EU Parliament's decision to impose a de facto ban on new registrations of internal combustion vehicles from 2035 has met with widespread rejection from both the automaker and fuel industries. In addition to criticism from the European Automobile…

More Austrian service stations

Not only in Germany, but also in Austria, the number of service stations open to the public has recently risen slightly, as shown by the industry data recently published by the Fachverband der Mineralölindustrie (FVMI). The association's service…

OMV supplies sustainable jet fuel to Austrian Airlines

The supply contract was signed at the end of last year, and in March  OMV supplied Austrian Airlines for the first time with Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) for the refueling of aircraft at Vienna Airport. The sustainable aviation fuel, which is…

Planned shutdown work in Heide

Planned maintenance work will take place at the Heide refinery for a month from the end of February. The production facilities affected by the TÜV inspections will be shut down for this purpose, and oil processing will ...

bp refinery in Lingen starts kerosene production from waste cooking oil

Since mid-February, the oil and gas group bp has been producing sustainable aviation fuel - SAF for short - from used cooking oil in a so-called co-processing process at its refinery in Lingen for the first time. The plant is said to be the first industrial production nationwide ...

Weaker utilization of refineries in 2021 compared with the previous year

At 86.9 percent, capacity utilization at oil-processing plants in Germany at the end of the year was significantly higher than the previous year's figure (75.5 percent). This is the result of an evaluation by the en2x Fuels and Energy Business Association. The general market situation at the end of ...