March 2011

Equipment and pipe failures can be avoided through better desalting practices and inhibitor injections

Key points identify effects from auto-refrigeration on steel vessels

Tips help maintenance and operations care and maintain refractory products in high-temperature operations

An innovative approach was used to repair an older flare structure online without an extensive shutdown

An in-depth look at the standard

Improving safety for organizations involve more than technological solutions; understanding processes and plant interactions are a must

Construction offers cost-effective protection of critical systems

Much information is available from a simple analysis

Visual engineering program solves designer and engineer issues across the industry

We often get questions relating to oil mist and how it affects electric motor windings. For a quick answer, contact us at Gulf Publishing via e-mail. We’ll steer you in the right direction by exp..

Due to increasing market, competitive, regulatory and social pressures, terminal automation is more important today than ever before. Nevertheless, many smaller petroleum-product terminals continue to..

Like for the local couple that went long-distance ice skating here on the Swedish west coast recently, there are disconcerting rumblings of change underfoot in the European refining industry. This cou..

Passivation—the formation of a corrosion-resistant oxide on a clean metal surface—is the key to optimizing system reliability on the waterside of heat exchangers. Most plant personnel are aw..

Refineries for sale BP is looking to sell two of its US refineries. The company has officially put a “for sale” sign in front of its refineries in Texas City, Texas, and Carson, California. ..

Two US senators have introduced legislation to enhance pipeline safety in the country. The bill strengthens pipeline safety oversight by the US federal government and addresses long-standing safety is..

Worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions involving midstream energy assets, which include natural gas pipelines, gas-gathering and processing facilities, as well as tankers and diversifie..

In written testimony before a US congressional panel, the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) said existing Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) are effective and shou..

US demand for activated carbon, including both virgin and reactivated products sold by activated carbon suppliers, is forecast to grow 15.8% per year to 1.2 billion pounds in 2014. The main driver of ..

Sasol plans to construct what is said to be the world’s first commercial ethylene tetramerization unit, capable of producing over 100,000 metric tpy of combined 1-octene and 1-hexene at its Lake ..

Albemarle Corp. and Petrobras have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a world-scale hydroprocessing catalyst (HPC) production plant on the site of their existing joint-venture Fabrica Cario..

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Sojitz Corp., Japan, jointly with China National Chemical Engineering Corp. (CNCEC), have received an order from Joint Stock Co. Ammoni of the Republic of T..

GE has been selected by Saudi Aramco, for agreements totaling nearly $500 million, to supply a broad range of equipment and services for an expansion of the Shaybah gasoil processing facilities. Valua..

Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (SES) has successfully completed a commercial-scale demonstration test in which more than 2,000 tons of high-ash coal from Queensland, Australia, was gasified at its Zao..

Microsoft’s Global Energy Forum was held in January at the Westin Galleria in Houston. The gathering offered a little bit of everything for interested parties: some upstream, some downstream, lot..

Solid-state purge controller  Applied Analytics, Inc. (AAI) offers a brochure on its ePurge X next-generation solution for air-purging electronic enclosures. Unlike conventional purge controllers..

Water-treatment product extends carbon life and reduces life-cycle costs AquaCarb 1240CAT’s specially processed coconut-shell-based carbon is said to offer enhanced performance capabilities ..

To achieve substantially improved benchmarks in project performance, profound change is needed

Valuable pointers help industrial plant managers minimize downtime, maintain quality and safety to improve operations