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FORT STOCKTON – A refinery working to enhance operations in the Permian Basin has hit its milestone ahead of schedule. 

VFuels – a Houston-based engineering, design and fabrication firm working on creating a modular grassroots refinery – said it was two months ahead of schedule. 

“VFuels is excited and honored to be working with the MMEX team on the Fort Stockton refinery,” Cody Summerhays, VFuels business development director, said in a statement.

The MMEX Resources Corp. team that Summerhays mentioned is working on the development of a refinery to create more lighter crudes within the Permian Basin, where the Mid-Continent Oil Field is located. The company’s website notes the project is made up of two stages. 

The first stage is a crude distillation unit that will be capable of processing 10,000 barrels per day which will produce No. 2 diesel fuel as well as naphatha and “residual atmospheric tower bottoms.”

The second phase is, “A 100,000-bpd refinery producing a broader slate of transportation-spec fuels.”

VFuels is beginning the detailed design and engineering for the Inside Battery Limits area of the project and are aiming to cut down the project time by 60 days. 

“In order to reduce the overall project schedule and to advance the 10,000-bpd CDU project, VFuels is starting the DED for the Inside Battery Limits (ISBL) portion of the project,” Summerhays said. “This activity will reduce the overall project schedule by at least 60 days and will allow VFuels to begin fabrication immediately on the ISBL portion of the project, once completed.”

In addition to the work that MMEX is deoing to develop the refinery, Meridian Energy Group is also working on its plans to construct a 60,000-bpd facility, which will be located in Winkler County.