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Weirauch, Wendy

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> Staff, Houston, Texas

HP Impact: HPImpact: Price spiral could affect coal next

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Significant increases in natural gas and oil prices have captured the attention of business developers, consumers and headlines. Not so visible, however, have been the recent increases in the cost of ..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Rising oil cost spurs new appeal of GTL process

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

The perceived competition between LNG and Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) GTL is neither for markets (LNG serves the utilities market; F-T GTL serves the transportation fuels markets), nor for gas resources, sa..

HP Impact: HPImpact: CO2-free power promises advances in reforming

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

BP's recently announced hydrogen power station project could have spin-off benefits for sites that rely heavily on hydrotreating or sulfur removal or are based within greenhouse gas emissions trading ..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Expanding economies, new technologies spur industrial valve sales

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Global industrial valve sales were about $40 billion in 2004. By 2010, annual sales will exceed $50 billion, says a new report by the McIlvaine Company (www.mcilvainecompany.com). A number of publicly..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Oil supply to outpace demand by 2007, says new CERA report

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Despite current fears that oil will soon "run out," global oil production capacity is actually set to increase dramatically over the rest of this decade, according to a new report by Cambridge Energy ..

HP Impact: US Gulf Coast must focus on value-chain products to compete

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

What is the future of the US Gulf Coast petrochemical industry? According to Avi Nash, market analyst and formerly a partner with Goldman Sachs, the US Gulf Coast petrochemical industry will be viable..

HP Impact: HPImpact: EU framework for water quality impacts downstream operations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

The European Commission's Water Framework Directive (WFD) was intended to replace a patchwork of other legislation, often overlapping and even contradictory, on various aspects of water management and..

HP In Brief: HPIn Brief

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

&#160; LNG supply and demand constraints Europe's gas demand w..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Environmental standards in India: new constraints pressure refiners

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Environmental issues are receiving growing awareness in India. This has translated into that nation developing a policy framework through regulations, as well as implementing international standards t..

HP Impact: HPImpact: US polymerization catalyst demand to grow 5.5%/yr

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Growth in US polymerization catalyst demand will derive primarily from increased polymer production and the expanding use of higher-value Ziegler-Natta and single-site catalysts. "These catalysts, ..