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Carbon Management

Shell CEO warns on hasty renewables shift

Major investors, including Dutch pension fund PGGM, have criticized Shell's climate change policy in recent months, saying it should do more to mitigate climate change risks.

Climate laws could mean higher refining costs

Curbing increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions remains a key requirement, and challenge, for global oil refiners and gas producers.

In-depth and preemptive front-end planning yields positive project results

Burns & McDonnell: Henre, C.  |  Satterfield, R.
Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing LLC: Garris, J.

Despite the challenges that major projects can present (short deadlines, budget constraints and overruns, unforeseen problems onsite and tension throughout executive teams), they can also prove to be a win-win for both the owner and the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm.

Shell opens Quest CO2 capture project in Alberta

Quest draws on techniques used by the energy industry for decades and integrates the components of CCS for the large-scale capture, transport and storage of CO2.

Praxair to recover CO2 at PBF refinery in Delaware

Praxair will build, own and operate a 450-tpd carbon dioxide purification and liquefaction plant at the refinery, run by PBF Energy in Delaware City, Delaware.

Jacobs to advise UK on carbon capture program

Under the contract, Jacobs is providing an assessment of the agreed deliverables from two developers of full chain CCS projects as technical advisor to support the program's delivery.

Deploying software-based emissions monitoring systems for refining processes

ABB: Callero, F.  |  Ciarlo, G.

It is important that efficient and reliable tools for acquiring emissions data are available. Environmental constraints not only can affect production, but failure to provide emissions values for extended periods may lead to an authority-imposed plant shutdown.

Accurate rate-based modeling of acid gas and mercaptan removal using hybrid solvents

The Dow Chemical Company: Badhwar, A.  |  Cristancho, D.  |  Dowdle, J.  |  Ortiz-Vega, D.

Prediction of mercaptan removal from natural gas streams with liquid solvents presents significant challenges. Using an extensive experimental data collection campaign and recently improved thermodynamic models, an innovative solution has overcome these challenges and developed a rate-based model to accurately predict mercaptan removal performance.

Air Liquide opens California CO2 liquefaction plant

The facility captures carbon dioxide emissions from an ethanol plant owned by Calgren Renewable Fuels. The carbon dioxide recovered is then purified and liquefied by Air Liquide.

HP Industry Perspectives: RFS—An endless loop

Renewable fuels remain a huge burden for the global refining industry. Today’s transportation fuels, when used with later-model vehicles, have dramatically reduced tailpipe emissions. With much p..