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Improve inline blending with advanced analyzers

Refinery Automation Institute, LLC: Barsamian, A.

Due to tough economic conditions, refiners are pressed to improve profitability. There is greater pressure to optimize gasoline and diesel blending. What are the options to improve processing of trans..

HP Industry Perspectives: POLL FINDINGS: Pipelines remain crude route of choice for North American refiners

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: DuBose, Ben

While the Keystone XL pipeline project remains in limbo, the concept behind it is very much alive.Roughly 70% of industry respondents predict that pipelines will be the most popular crude oil transpor..

HP Brief

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Changes on the horizon at Harburg refineryNynas has received approval from the European Commission to take over production and responsibility for the base oil plant and associated production units at ..

HP Impact: Lukoil projects energy trends out to 2025

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Lukoil recently offered an outlook on the long-term prospects for the global hydrocarbon processing industry. The outlook’s objective is to analyze trends that will (in Lukoil’s view) determ..

HP Impact: US demand for asphalt approaches 28 million tons

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

US asphalt demand is forecast to increase 3.7% annually to 27.9 million tons (MMt) in 2017. This is equivalent to 154 million bbl of primary asphalt, the vast majority of which is refined petroleum as..

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Burner management system ideal for retrofitsPrincipal Technology Inc. offers a modern burner management system (BMS) (Fig. 1) specifically designed for the retrofit of legacy boilers, ovens, furnaces ..

Finland’s Neste Oil plans to exit shipping business

Under the plan, Neste Oil will sell five tankers and three tugs to companies owned by Finland's National Emergency Supply Agency and the Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company.

US to bypass Russia in liquid fuels production

HP Editorial Staff: HP News Services

The US is set to bypass Russia in the production of liquid fuels such as crude and ethanol this quarter, the IEA said, as global demand for oil is rising faster than expected.

Iran agrees to release detained Indian Oil tanker

Iran detained the ship carrying crude oil from Iraq to India on August 13, saying it was polluting Iranian waters. India had denied the allegation, and according to the tanker's owner, state-run Shipping Corp. of India, the vessel wasn't in Iranian waters when it was detained.

Kinder Morgan, Valero launch US Gulf products line

The approximately $250 million pipeline system has an initial capacity of 110,000 bpd with the ability to expand to over 200,000 bpd. The pipeline is now transporting refined petroleum products from refineries in Norco, Louisiana, to an existing petroleum transportation hub in Collins, Mississippi.