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HP Insight: How long is an economic cycle for the HPI?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

As summer takes hold in the Northern Hemisphere, demand for energy in various forms increases. In looking back over the past 90 years, energy demand and pricing cycle through high and low points. In 2..

HP Construction: Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Haldor Topsøe has selected UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, to provide technology to purify hydrogen from a steam-reforming unit to be installed at the Antipinsky refinery in Tyumen, Russia. Honeywe..

US oil, fuel demand falls amid weak economy - API

Gasoline demand tracked the overall numbers, declining 2.5% for June versus a year ago and 1.0% for the first six months of this year against the same period in 2011, the API said. Distillates, jet fuel, and residual fuel were also down for the first six months, while distillates and residual fuel were down for June.

Carlyle, Sunoco reach pact to keep Philadelphia refinery in operation

The refinery under Carlyle is expected to become a major new user of the domestic crude that has backed up at an Oklahoma trading hub unable to reach coastal refineries. The Philadelphia refinery could begin processing US crude by the beginning of next year, increasing its demand over time.

Catalyst developments: The past 90 years

IHS Markit: Heinen, R.

While catalysis has made many advances in the last 90 years, the application of new technologies developed in other areas may offer great promise for future breakthroughs.

The military and the hydrocarbon: A love affair of over 100 years

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

The relationship between the military and the petroleum industry dates back to the years before World War I (WWI), when the US and British navies started to switch from coal to oil as a fuel source. M..

Largest hydrocracker in China

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

Refiners are leveraging hydrocracking to respond to momentum in global dieselization, with crude prices forcing refiners to process distressed crudes and difficult feedstock.

HP Brief

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Air Liquide starts up SMR in La Porte, TexasAir Liquide recently celebrated the formal startup of a new steam methane reformer (SMR) in La Porte, Texas. The 120 million scfd of gaseous hydrogen (H2) p..

HP Impact: E15 ethanol fuel can damage auto engines

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Auto repair costs for consumers could rise due to adverse effects of fuel containing 15% ethanol blends (E15), according to new results from a two-year study on engine durability.The study was conduct..

HP Construction: Asia Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

A groundbreaking ceremony has taken place for Evonik’s new hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) plant in China. The plant is scheduled to go online, with a production capacity of 230,000 metric tpy, at the e..