Thinnes, Billy
HP Impact: EPA urged to delay judgment on E15
The Auto Alliance, the American Petroleum Institute and the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute urged the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to delay action on the agency's proposal to allow highe..
HP Impact: Energy future must include mix of renewables
Meeting ever-rising demand with hydrocarbon reserves that are becoming more difficult and expensive to exploit will require a makeover of the oil and gas industry over the next 40 years, a panel of o..
HP Construction: North America
Saipem has a contract from PEMEX for two desulfurization units and two amine regeneration units to be built at two of PEMEX's refineries. The scope of work will consist of the engineering, procurement..
HP Construction: South America
CB&I has a contract to supply a cryogenic natural gas processing plant in Malvinas, Peru, as part of an expansion of the Camisea gas project. CB&I's $45 million contract is with Pluspetrol Peru Corp. ..
HP Construction: Europe
Bayer MaterialScience plans to invest €150 million in a new production plant for toluene diisocyanate (TDI) at Chempark Dormagen in Germany. The new plant will have a capacity of 300,000 tpy and ..
HP Construction: Middle East
BILLY THINNES, News Editor     Comments? Write:BT@HydrocarbonProcessing.comSaudi Aramco Shell Refinery Co. (SASREF) recently inaugurated an ultra-low-sulfur diesel unit a..
HP Construction: Asia Pacific
Kentz Corp. Ltd. has a site-wide specialist instrumentation contract for the Pluto LNG project on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia. This brings Kentz's combined value of work secured on the p..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
Fallout from Tesoro accidentTesoro Corp. has temporarily curtailed operations at its Anacortes, Washington, refinery by shutting down crude processing treating capacity involved in the recent explosio..
HP Impact: Underground gas storage on the rise
 Billy Thinnes, News Editor     Comments? Write:BT@HydrocarbonProcessing.comCEDIGAZ (www.cedigaz.com) recently released a report on global underground gas storage (UGS). ..
HP Impact: Responding to oil supply emergencies
We live in an uncertain world. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and unforeseen economic collapses all lurk somewhere in the nebulous future, possibly near term or possibly long term. Each of these..
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