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HP Water Management: Avoid failures in water projects: Part 1
Your company is planning an expansion—building a new process unit or constructing an entire new plant. Regardless of the scope, the facility staff will specify project requirements, complete the ..
HP Construction: North America
Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has signed a strategic umbrella agreement with The Dow Chemical Co. to provide project management, consulting, engineering, procurement,..
Update on valves used in hydrogen service
Recommended practices can better scrutinize performance issues such as design, packing and metallurgy to mitigate failures.
ExxonMobil mulls major petrochemicals expansion at Baytown complex
The project would involve building a new ethane cracker and other facilities to ExxonMobil's huge refining and petrochemical complex in Baytown, Texas, and would enable the company to "capitalize on abundant supplies of American natural gas." Start-up would be scheduled for 2016.
EPA amends US clean air rules for refinery flares
The US Environmental Protection Agency changed its air-pollution standards for certain pieces of refinery equipment, saying the changes will save oil refiners $80 million a year and provide greater compliance flexibility. The EPA had received petitions from outside groups to review the requirements.
Motiva inaugurates major Texas refinery expansion
Executives of the companies that jointly own Motiva - Peter Voser, CEO of Shell, and Khalid Al-Falih, CEO of Saudi Aramco - turned the ceremonial valve commemorating the start of oil flowing through new processing units at the complex. The expanded refinery can process a wider variety of crude oils.
Shell to expand Athabasca oil sands as CEO sees Canada output growing
Shell will expand its Athabasca oil sands project by a third by the end of the decade, and Canada will make up a larger share of Shell's energy production over that period, CEO Peter Voser said. That would bring the project, in which Shell owns 60%, to at least 335,000 bpd of production.
MRC Global inks distribution pact with Shell for valves, automation services
MRC Global, a distributor of pipe, valves and fittings to the energy industry, has signed a five-year global agreement with Shell for the distribution of valves and automation services. The agreement also covers carbon and stainless steel, stainless and alloy pipe, fittings and flanges.
Shale boom at risk over environment concerns
The IEA report shows how the shale gas industry, which has dramatically altered the US energy landscape, stands at a tipping point to determine how it spreads worldwide.
T. Boone Pickens finds flaws in US energy plans of Obama, Romney
The energy titan didn't endorse either presidential candidate, saying Obama's "all of the above" energy plan needed to be more specific and Romney's plan is "not total".
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