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Weirauch, Wendy

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

HP Impact: HPImpact: Industry increases 3D design investments

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Owner/ operator and EPC investments in 3D plant design and visualization software are poised to rise to record levels. According to industry-analyst Daratech, the market will top $280 million in 2000,..

HP In Brief: HPIn Brief

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Are fuel cell vehicles challengers or challenged? National governments and the transportation industry are increasingly focusing on research and development initiatives directed toward fuel cell vehi..

HP Impact: HPImpact: What skills do project managers really need?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

In the HPI, the project management discipline has gained credibility as an implementation methodology that successful corporations use to accomplish their goals. However, to ensure future qualified wo..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Resurging demand for catalysts

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Demand for petroleum refining catalysts totaled $1.1 billion in 1998 and is forecast to increase $250 million/yr over the next five years. A study from The Freedonia Group says that the "poor performa..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Outlook 'robust' for natural gas – GRI

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

The Gas Research Institute (GRI) has published the 2000 Edition of its "Baseline Projection of U.S. Energy Supply and Demand to 2015." It describes steady growth in overall U.S. energy consumption and..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Regulator, innovator: on the same side?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

When it comes to the battle between the regulators and the innovators, one side yells for more regulation to hold back the technological juggernaut and protect the environment; the other wants to abol..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Kyoto Protocol costs burden Canada most, says recent study

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

A variety of economic models estimating the cost to implement the Kyoto Protocol on global warming show that the economic burden will likely be greatest on Canada and the U.S., according to an analysi..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Fastest growing field device market

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

The ultrasonic flowmeter market is going through "the most dramatic revolution since the introduction of the first Doppler ultrasonic flowmeter." Advances in technology will spur rapid double-digit gr..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Industrial chemicals to rebound 2.25%

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

In 1999, U.S. shipments of chemicals and allied products rose 5.25% to $412 billion. This growth was driven by gains in life sciences and specialty chemicals. Shipments of industrial chemicals rose on..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Hours worked: More may not be better

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Does working more mean working better? Not necessarily, says a new global study by the International Labour Office (ILO). The study suggests that increased productivity is not the only indicator that ..