[C3.] Exxon Plans to Increase Spending The Exxon Mobil Corporation said that it planned to increase spending on refinery expansions and chemical plants to raise profit from sources other than oil and natural gas wells.
Finally, appropriate procedures must be employed to dispose of spent catalysts from refinery processing units.
The head of a Texas oil refinery spent almost $20,000 flying Mr. Perry and his staff to a trade meeting in Mexico, where the governor asked Mexican energy officials to consider more joint ventures with Texas oil companies.
Encouraging results were achieved when Sohar Refinery's spent catalyst was used as sand replacement.
Phnom Penh Sugar says that it has spent $220 million on its refinery, brought power lines into the valley, constructed a water-treatment plant and a school, erected dormitories for skilled factory workers and built roads and bridges to replace muddy tracks.
To cope, their father worked double shifts at an oil refinery and spent long hours at the American Legion hall, where he downed his own share of booze and regaled his buddies with fantastic tall tales.
Nearly four years ago it paid $30 million a small oil refinery and spent $100 million refurbishing it as a hedge against then-rising energy prices.
Many refineries have spent heavily to be able to make the new fuel, he said, and "all the people who made the investment, who are in for the long haul, are going to be penalized".
Starting with cash moved out of Cuba and worn-out milling equipment bought second-hand in Louisiana, the Fanjuls spent recent decades buying refineries and related businesses — an enterprise that ultimately stretched seamlessly from the canefields of Florida to America's kitchen cupboards and beyond.
The Baton Rouge refinery spends $30 million annually on equipment inspections, and over a hundred trained personnel work on those inspections every year, Cargile said.
